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The Roswell Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert was published in 1995 by Headquarters United States Air Force. It was written in response to Representative Steven H. Schiff's request and a General Accounting Office audit, and it contains Col. Richard L. Weaver's report and 1st Lt. James McAndrew's synopsis, along with attachments, appendices and photographs. The report says researchers found no evidence of an extraterrestrial craft or crew. It concludes that the 1947 debris came from a Project MOGUL balloon train.

  • p. 1 THE ROSWELL REPORT Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert Headquarters United States Air Force…
  • p. 3 …to what is popularly known as the Roswell Incident. The only information presented here that was…
  • p. 9 …The Report of the Air Force Research Regarding the "Roswell Incident" by Col. Richard L. Weaver…
  • p. 11 …1 "Report of Air Force Research Regarding the 'Roswell Incident'," with Memorandum for the Secretary of…
  • p. 13 …1947 Appendices to the McAndrew Synopsis: 1. Roswell Daily Record, July 9, 1947 2. Interview, Col…
  • p. 14 …Combined History, 509th Bomb Group and Roswell Army Airfield, September 1-30, 1947 Attachment to Colonel…
  • p. 17 …Popularly known as the Roswell Incident, this event has become the most celebrated UFO encounter of…
  • p. 19 …Additionally, many claims of a flying saucer crash at Roswell rest on the description of debris…
  • p. 21 …Report of Air Force Research Regarding the "Roswell Incident" JUL 2 7 19S111 Attached is a…
  • p. 23 REPORT OF AIR FORCE RESEARCH REGARDING THE "ROSWELL INCIDENT" JULY 1994
  • p. 25 REPORT OF AIR FORCE RESEARCH REGARDING THE ''ROSWELL INCIDENT" EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The "Roswell Incident" refers to…
  • p. 26 INTRODUCTION Air Force involvement in the alleged UFO-related incident popularly known as the "Roswell Incident…
  • p. 27 …THE "ROSWELL INCIDENT"-WHAT WAS ORIGINALLY REPORTED IN 1947 The modem preoccupation with what ultimately came…
  • p. 28 …Interestingly, the "Roswell Incident" was not considered one of these 1947 events until the 1978-1980…
  • p. 29 …The overall thrust of these articles, books, and shows is that the "Roswell Incident" was actually…
  • p. 30 …Once back at Roswell Army Air Field, it is generally alleged that special measures were taken…
  • p. 31 …What is uniquely lacking in the entire exploration and exploitation of the "Roswell Incident" is official…
  • p. 32 …of "over two dozen" personnel stationed at Roswell in July, 1947, to the Veterans Adminis- tration…
  • p. 33 …program involving, or relating to, the events at Roswell or the alleged technology that supposedly 17
  • p. 34 …they found that might be related to Roswell. SAF/ AAZD conducted reviews at a number of…
  • p. 35 …WHAT THE ROSWELL INCIDENT WAS NOT Before discussing specific positive results that these efforts revealed, it…
  • p. 36 …A Nuclear Accident One of the areas considered was that whatever happened near Roswell may have…
  • p. 37 …There is no similar mention of his personal interest or involvement in Roswell events except in…
  • p. 38 …WHAT THE "ROSWELL INCIDENT" WAS As previously discussed, what was originally reported to have been recovered…
  • p. 39 …Porter (B-29 flight Engineer stationed at Roswell in 1947). Affidavit dated June 7, 1991. " ... On…
  • p. 40 …Newton was a weather officer assigned to Fort Worth, who was on duty when the Roswell…
  • p. 43 …came to rest some miles northwest of Roswell, NM, became shredded in the surface winds, and…
  • p. 44 …had also discovered the possibility that the "Roswell Incident" may have been generated by the recovery…
  • p. 45 …appeared to be directly responsible for the "Roswell Incident," a SAF I AAZD researcher prepared a…
  • p. 46 …CONCLUSION The Air Force research did not locate or develop any information that the "Roswell Incident…
  • p. 47 …alien bodies" make their living from the "Roswell Incident." While having a commercial interest in something…
  • p. 51 …Even though the "Roswell Incident" has been repeatedly dismissed by the Defense Depart- ment as nothing…
  • p. 56 …reported crash of a weather balloon near Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947. SCOPE: Initial work…
  • p. 59 …since the enclosed GAO notification letter did not mention the Roswell incid~t or specifically site…
  • p. 67 …reported crash of a weather balloon near Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947". To fulfill the…
  • p. 71 …There is a second document called "Synopsis of Roswell Incident: (Atch 2). In its recapitulation of…
  • p. 73 …I have enclosed for your review a brief synopsis of what occurred in and around Roswell…
  • p. 75 SYNOPSIS OF ROSWELL INCIDENT I am writing to request a clarifica- rion of the U.S…
  • p. 76 SUMMARY OF HQ NAIC RESEARCH INTO THE ROSWELL INCIDENT, UNIDENTIFIED FLYING SAUCERS, AND PROJECT BLUE BOOK…
  • p. 77 …Concerted research has failed to turn up any evidence relating to the Roswell incident or of…
  • p. 78 …He found nothing, apparently, about the Roswell incident. The UFO Experience, J. Allen Hynek. Written by…
  • p. 89 …archives of a weather balloon crash near Roswell, New Mexico from 20 June to 31 July…
  • p. 94 …We asked the National Personnel Records Center to see if they have any files for Roswell…
  • p. 98 REPORT GAO INVESTIGATION OF "THE ROSWELL INCIDENT": RELEVANT HOLDINGS AT THE AFHRA 8 March 1994 Preface…
  • p. 99 …No mention of Roswell incident found. 390th Air Service Sqdn - No AFHRA files for June/July…
  • p. 100 …No mention of the Roswell incident was found in them. Result of the Search - Card Catalog…
  • p. 101 …records which might provide details of the Roswell incident H such records survive today, they will…
  • p. 102 …509mBoMB GRoUP ~--I ,A N D : . :: ;:;: ~: 1, . - .. . ROSWELL ARMY AIRFiE-IAf- 1JutY 1947 THROUG!.t 31Jutv…
  • p. 104 …Arner ?P.r Po.r~crnph 3, Special Order, #139, Eeadquartars, Roswell Anny Air Field, dated…
  • p. 106 …guasts of -the Kiwe.nis Club of Roswell at a luncheon, for which Colonel :;.. H. Blanchard…
  • p. 108 …Mabry' of New Mexico, and party, were the guests o£ honor of Roswell Arrq Air Field…
  • p. 159 …Shortly after arriving at Roswell , New Mexico in that time frame I had occasion to accompany…
  • p. 163 …When did you get transferred to Roswell, Sir? SC: I went to Roswell after going to…
  • p. 166 …disc" in RosweU? That was actually the Roswell paper, that was the first one. How about…
  • p. 170 …I went through and pulled out wherever, in this book UFO Crash at Roswell by Randle…
  • p. 172 …been changed to a location closer to Roswell. And. that's where these bodies were supposedly…
  • p. 175 …that they weren't shooting them toward Roswell, anyway. Of course the sent up a few…
  • p. 176 …Kirtland was just another Air Base as far as we were concerned down at Roswell. They…
  • p. 178 …On page 86, it said: "The counterintelligence people came into Roswell on a special flight from…
  • p. 179 …he described his normal unclassified duties at Roswell, but according to him the crash and recovery…
Not surprisingly, the research team found the usual number of problems in many
of the records centers (particularly St. Louis) with misfiling, lost or misplaced
documents, mismarking of documents, or the breaking up of record groups over
the years and refiling in different systems. This included, for example, a small
amount of missing "decimal files" from the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell that
covered the years 1945-1949, that were marked on the index as "destroyed." The
researchers noted that there was no pattern to any anomalies found and that most
discrepancies were minor and consistent with what they had found in the past on
similar projects.
WHAT THE ROSWELL INCIDENT WAS NOT
Before discussing specific positive results that these efforts revealed, it is first
appropriate to discuss those things, as indicated by information available to the
Air Force, that the "Roswell Incident" was not:
An Airplane Crash
Of all the things that are documented and tracked within the Air Force, among
the most detailed and scrupulous are airplane crashes. In fact, records of air
crashes go back to the first years of military flight. Safety records and reports are
available for all crashes that involved serious damage, injury, death, or a
combination of these factors. These records also include incidents involving
experimental or classified aircraft. USAF records showed that between June 24,
1947, and July 28, 1947, there were five crashes in New Mexico alone, involving
A-26C, P-51N, C-82A, P-80A, and PQ-14B aircraft; however, none of these
occurred on the date(s) in question nor in the area(s) in question.
One of the additional areas specifically set forth by GAO in its efforts was to deal
with how the Air Force (and others) specifically documented" ... weather balloon
... and other crash incidents." In this area, the search efforts revealed that there
are no air safety records pertaining to weather balloon crashes (all weather
balloons "crash" sooner or later); however, there are provisions for generating
reports of "crashes" as ground safety incidents in the unlikely chance that a
balloon injures someone or causes damage. Such records are only maintained for
five years.
A Missile Crash
A crashed or errant missile, usually described as a captured German V-2 or one
of its variants, is sometimes set forth as a possible explanation for the debris
recovered near Roswell. Since much of this testing done at nearby White Sands
was secret at the time, it would be logical to assume that the government would
handle any missile mishap under tight security, particularly if the mishap
occurred on private land. From the records reviewed by the Air Force, however,
there was nothing located to suggest that this was the case. Although the bulk of
remaining testing records are under the control of the US Army, the subject has
also been very well documented over the years within Air Force records. There
would be no reason to keep such information classified today. The USAF found
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