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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. 12 …Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July 9, 1947 17. Satement, Lt. Col. Sheridan…
  • p. 13 …Photographs, ML-307C/AP Device with Vintage Neoprene Balloons and Debris 32. Synopsis of Balloon Research…
  • p. 15 …Balloons Project MOGUL Balloon Train Components and Debris Recovered Heights of Familiar Architectural Structures Relative to…
  • p. 19 …Additionally, many claims of a flying saucer crash at Roswell rest on the description of debris…
  • p. 25 …Prior to that, the incident was dismissed because the AAF originally identified the debris recovered as…
  • p. 28 …When the debris was gathered up the tinfoil, paper, tape, and sticks made a bundle about…
  • p. 29 …Marcel, claimed that he had recovered UFO debris near Roswell in 1947. Also in 1978, a…
  • p. 30 example, it was originally reported that there was only recovery of debris from one site. This…
  • p. 32 …the exact location(s) of the purported debris, and the extent of the wreckage. Such discrepancies…
  • p. 35 …forth as a possible explanation for the debris recovered near Roswell. Since much of this testing…
  • p. 38 …There were three categories of debris: a thick, foil like metallic gray substance; a brittle, brownish…
  • p. 39 …The debris looked like pieces of a large balloon which had burst. The pieces were small…
  • p. 40 accompanied Major Marcel to the ranch to recover the debris, sometimes along with his Counter Intelligence…
  • p. 43 …Lt Col Cavitt described a small area of debris which appeared, "to resemble bamboo type square…
  • p. 44 …Pflock concluded from his research that the Brazel Ranch debris originally reported as a "flying disc…
  • p. 46 …This organiza- tion was able to obtain measurements from the "sticks" visible in the debris after…
  • p. 48 …Photos of ML-307C/ AP Device, With Vintage Neoprene Balloon and Debris 32. Synopsis of Balloon…
  • p. 67 …reporting air vehicle crashes, investigations, and wreckage/debris retention and disposition; (c) identify~ records (unclassified or…
  • p. 71 …existence of any relevant documents, flying saucer debris, or space aliens on WPAFB. AF/IN's…
  • p. 72 …miles from the rest of the OFO debris. There has been rumors of post-mortem examinations…
  • p. 75 …They discovered a gre:~t deal of lightweight debris which couldn't be cut. burned, or…
  • p. 81 …Normally, the safety investigation is done first, after which the wreckage/debris retention and disposition becomes…
  • p. 85 …reporting air vehicle crashes, investigations, and wreckage/debris retention and disposition. Additionally, we do not possess…
  • p. 151 16 Fort Worth Star-Telegram Photographs of Balloon Debris July 9, 1947
  • p. 159 …When we got to this location we subsequently located some debris which appeared to me to…
  • p. 164 …we heard that someone had found some debris out not too tar &om RosweU and it…
  • p. 172 …the next morning they headed out into a field were Brazel had found the debris." So…
  • p. 175 …type of rocket when you saw the debris in the field? SC: No. No. I never…
  • p. 177 …the senior intelligence officer walked into the debris field, examined the wreckase. Rickett said it looked…
  • p. 182 …through the security phalanx and saw metallic debris scattered in an outer circle with a diameter…
  • p. 187 …It was something that was written or printed on some of the debris, Do you recall…
  • p. 201 …balloons for the detection and collection of debris from atomic explosion. Although I was involved in…
  • p. 202 …There was also debris coUection on sticky paper. Most of the balloon projects were not concerned…
  • p. 206 …others were involved in other activities so debris from rockets, aircraft dropsondes, etc. may have been…
  • p. 213 …someone had come to him with some debris from Ne~ Mexico and he said, "this SW…
  • p. 214 apparatus and materials for the project, so if he said that it was debris from the…
  • p. 219 …When this purplish-pink marking on the debris came up, I immediately remembered this sort of…
  • p. 222 …He indicates in this newspaper article that he actually found the debris in mid-June, however…
  • p. 232 …And left pieces of debris everywhere. Depending on •..
  • p. 252 …But you're quite right, there's debris that was reported to us that ••• Q: ••• some…
  • p. 257 …in the area who could explain this debris that was brought in. There were no experts…
  • p. 261 …a radar to substitute for the real debris. I think there's a very high likelihood…
  • p. 262 …I asked her did he ever talk to her about anything regarding this debris that had…
  • p. 266 …that's been substituted for the real debris, and there are also stories where Marchelle said…
  • p. 270 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 54 including that debris, are pictures that he sent to me…
  • p. 275 …Someone came from New Mexico with this debris? A: Yes, I believe that's correct. Q…
  • p. 276 …Why did they bring this debris to Colonel Duffy? Why didn't they bring it to…
  • p. 278 …I knew him only by the path of debris he left behind. I never met him…
  • p. 311 31 Photographs ML-307C/AP Device with Vintage Neoprene Balloons and Debris
  • p. 318 …Meanwhile, Brig Gen Roger Ramey, Eighth Air Force Commander, ordered that the debris be flown to…
  • p. 325 …Descriptions of the debris provided by Brazel, Cavitt, Crary's diary, and the photos of the…
  • p. 326 …It now appears that the debris from MOGUL flight no. 4 had come ·to earth on…
  • p. 327 …Newton positively identified the debris as the remnants of a balloon and RAWIN target. 37 With…
  • p. 328 …Research has revealed that the debris found on the ranch and displayed in General Ramey's…
  • p. 329 …weather balloons and targets, positively identified the debris as a weather device.42 In short, descriptions…
  • p. 331 …4 Photographs of Balloon Debris JAMES McANDREW, 1st Lt, USAFR Declassification and Review Officer SAF/AAZD…
  • p. 333 Fort Worth Star-Telegram Photographs of Balloon Debris July 9, 1947 1
  • p. 379 …When the .debris was :gathered of these. . .· . originally gave tbe'<information of Jesse_. A. Mateel and…
  • p. 975 …In fact, General Ramey displayed the original debris recovered from the ranch, which came from a…
  • p. 978 …They also contend that the debris recovered by the rancher was transported to Andrews AAF, MD…
!HarassecJ>Rancher who Located
!'Saucer, Sorry He Tolcl About ItI
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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