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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. 5 …Also, Robert "Gus" Bell contributed with his attractive art work; Richard Wolf provided invaluable computer expertise…
  • p. 14 …Mensuration Working Paper, with Drawing and Photo xiv
  • p. 19 …The ruse worked. However, too much activity was going on for the project to remain completely…
  • p. 28 …The balloon which held it up, if that is how it worked, must have been about…
  • p. 31 …These works included: The Roswell Incident (1980) by William Moore and Charles Berlitz; "Crashed Saucers: Evidence…
  • p. 34 …specialists, including experienced persons who have continually worked in Army and Air Force records systems since…
  • p. 42 …or classified about their work; they were told only that their work dealt with meteorological equipment…
  • p. 43 …of umbrella cover story to protect our work with MOGUL." Although the Air Force did not…
  • p. 44 …who is married to a staffer who works for Congressman Schiff. Some of these persons provided…
  • p. 48 …Synopsis of Balloon Research Findings by 1st Lt James McAndrew 33. "Mensuration Working Paper," With Drawing…
  • p. 51 …to the case, and that not enough work had been done to report any results to…
  • p. 55 …The work will be performed under GAO code 701034 by staff from our National Security Analysis…
  • p. 56 …Initial work will be performed at the Department of Defense, the Services, specialized defense agencies, and…
  • p. 59 …Secur~ty and Inter.nationa1 Affairs Division (National Security Analysis) is doinq the work. The review…
  • p. 75 …Mary Kathryn Groode, and his friend, John Kromschroeder. • A mortician who worked for the funCr.ll…
  • p. 76 …Conversations with a dozen people who had worked in the Project Blue Book office or with…
  • p. 106 …This has caused a large back log o£ important work to pile up. The following is…
  • p. 145 …civilian, Joe Shipman, who works with Col. Hackett is re~orted to have t~ld the…
  • p. 148 …Harness advised he thought we were getting the Merger Bill worked out pretty fine. 9:35…
  • p. 164 …I had two enJisted agents "working for me" quote end quote. RW: Who were the enlisted…
  • p. 169 …He worked for an insane asylum up in the Washington DC area. I think his wife…
  • p. 170 …He did quite a bit of work for the Air Force, as I found through research…
  • p. 183 …we went to all the different records. Working for me I have a group of reservists…
  • p. 191 …I need two plug ins to make this thing work. SC: You need two? RW: One…
  • p. 196 …the &ranting or clearanc•• to do the work. Both mthods haw bean succesatul.J¥ u.sod…
  • p. 201 …I worked on naval activity such as the thermal affects on SONAR. Concerning actual baUoon construction…
  • p. 205 …Our subsequent work with the balloons and microphones was highly classified and we didn't know…
  • p. 206 …We didn't pattern our work after the Japanese balloons. We were very secretive of our…
  • p. 213 …Charles Ziegler was working on the history of nuclear weapons detection capability. He had some letters…
  • p. 214 …Concerning the name Maj Pritchard, he may have worked for me but I don't recall…
  • p. 217 …Project Mogul and some of the other work that you and Dr. Spilhaus and others have…
  • p. 221 …He and I worked together. He was in Maine, and was not really technically involved. I…
  • p. 227 …With some difficulty we got Otto Winzen who was the entrepreneur cmd promoter, working with Get…
  • p. 228 …So you're doing that work from China? And we over and the entire our A…
  • p. 230 …Schneider and others from NYU, also Irewin, Minton, Olson, NYU men worked on balloons, north hangar."
  • p. 233 …Before you left active duty, while you were still working with Duffy and Spilhaus, did they…
  • p. 234 …While I was at Georgia Tech I began working with a microwave, an anonymous propagation research…
  • p. 236 …The reason I got into balloons is that while I was working on this manual there…
  • p. 237 …At that point you were working at New York University under the direction .•. A: Spilhaus was…
  • p. 240 …He worked for a Tracer lab and is just bringing out a book on the early…
  • p. 242 …Just for the record, ·Major Marcel later worked at AFOAT-1. Do you recognize him at…
  • p. 251 …It often didn't work. That was the reason why for Operation Sandstone in April and…
  • p. 253 …We just worked out of motels in Roswell. Q: I thought I saw you had a…
  • p. 258 …When we sent people to Roswell, Hackman worked out of a motel to receive. So the…
  • p. 259 …I do know that I worked carefully with a guy named Larry Dyvad, a pilot, who…
  • p. 260 …You were just saying hey, what's going to work best to get the data, so…
  • p. 269 …Tibbetts, the radar lieutenant working for Fletcher, said that when they got these in '44 there…
  • p. 274 …In the course of the research projects you worked on, in that time frame-the postwar…
  • p. 275 …You were on-site in New Mexico when Charlie Moore was doing most of his work…
  • p. 276 …Did he work for you at Watson Laboratories? A: No. He didn't work for me…
  • p. 279 …Do you recall any of the contractors he may have worked with? A: No, I don…
  • p. 280 …That's where John had his office, and I was there for a time doing work…
  • p. 282 …We worked in the old Sun newspaper building in downtown Baltimore. Q: They had intelligence personnel…
  • p. 283 …I know he worked with the U.S. Geological Survey, a very, very fine organization, and…
  • p. 318 …rest on the ranch on which he worked near the town of Corona, NM. This was…
  • p. 322 …In addition, Crary maintlained a detailed journal of his work throughout his professional career to incluc…
  • p. 323 …25 Balloons most suitable for this type of work were made of polyethylene, a very thin…
  • p. 325 …9 appeared to have been launched on July 3.34 On July 8, their work completed…
  • p. 330 …It was apparent from Crary's diary that he had worked very closely with Major Pritchard…
  • p. 379 …MonOay he came to town to sell worked, must have bt!en about 12 some sort…
!HarassecJ>Rancher who Located
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w. W. Brazel, 48, Llncolr, county ·they came uPOn a large area of could not reconstruct it at all. have weighed maybe five pounds.
rancher living 30 mlles south. east bright wreckage made up on rub- They tried to make a kite. out of It, There was no S(gn of any metal
of Corona. today told his story of ber strips, tinfoil, a rather tough but could not do that and could in the area . which might nave
flndlng what the army at first paper and sticks. not flnd any way to put it back been used for an engine and no
1described as a flying disk, but · At the time Brazel was in a together so that it would fit. sifrn of any propellers of any kind,
the publicity which attended his h]u to get his round made and Then M.ajor Marcel'· brought it although at least one paper fin
find caused him to add that if he he id not pay much attention to to Roswell and that wa.S the last had been glued onto some of t.he
ever found anything else short ef lt. ut he did remark about what he <heard of· it until jhe story' tinfoil.
a bomb he sure wasn't going to h ad seen and on July 4 he. his broke that he had foun a flying There were no words to be found
say anythln8 about it. wife, Vem"on and p. daughter Bet- disk. anywhere on the instrument, al-
Brazel was brought here late ty, age 14, went back to the spot Brazel said that he did not see though there·were letters on 59me
yesterday by W. E. Whitmore, of and gathered up quite a bit of the it fall from the sky and did not of the parts.' Considerable seotch
radio station KGFL, had his pic- debris. see It before it was torn up, s0 tape and some tape with flowers
ture taken and gave an Interview The next day he first heard he did not know the size or shape printed upon it had been used in
to the Record .and Jason Kellahin, about the. flying disks, and he it might have been. but h.e thought the constru~t.ion.
~;ent here from the Albuquerque wondered if what he had found It might have been1 about as large No. strings or wire were to be
bureau of the :Associated Press to might be the remnants of one as a table top. The balloon which found but there were some eye-
cover the story; The picture he of these. · held it up, lf that was how it lets 1n the paper to lndica·te that
posed for was sent out over AP · MonOay he came to town to sell worked, must have bt!en about 12 some sort of attachment may have
telephoto wire ~ndlng machine some wool and while here he went·~ feet long, he felt, measuring. the. been used. ·
specially set up In the Record to see sheriff George Wllccix and distance by the size of the room Brazel said that he had pre-
office by R. D. Ada.lr, AP wire "whispered k 1 n d a confidential in which he sat. The rubber \vas vlously found two weather obser-
chier sent here from Albuquerque like" that he might have found a smoky gray in color and scattered vatlon balloons on the ranch, but
ror the sole purpose of getting out flying disk. · ' over an area ·about 200 yards in that what he found th1B time did
his wcture and that of $herlff wqcox got in touch with the diameter.·· not in any way reSemble either
Geo-rge Wilcox,' to whom Brazel Roswell Army Air Fteld and Maj. When the .debris was :gathered of these. . .· .
originally gave tbe'<information of Jesse_. A. Mateel and a m~n In up the tinfoil, paper. ~pe, and "I am -sure .what I ~ound was
his flnd. plain clotHes JICCOUlpa.nie<l• him sticks made a bundle abbut three not any . weather observation
Brazel related that on June 14 homff. where they picked up the feetlong 'and 7. or 8 incbes thick, balloon," he said. "But if I find
be and an 8-yeu old son. Vernon rest of the pieces of the "disk" while the· rubber m~e !a bundle anything else, besides a bomb they
were about 7 or 8 miles from the and went to his home to try to about 18, or 20 Inches long and are going to llave a hard time
ranch house of the J. B. Foster reconstruct· ft. about 8 Inches thick. In all, he getting me to say anytb.ing about
ranch, which he operates, when Accordlni to Brazel they simply estimated, the enUre lpt would it." · ·

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