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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.
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!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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