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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. 17 …Others remain nonbelievers or at least skeptical of the existence of alien beings and elusive vehicles…
  • p. 19 …Moreover, operational necessity required that these balloons be launched during daylight hours. It was therefore not…
  • p. 30 …This has since grown from a minimal amount of debris recovered from a small area to…
  • p. 35 …This included, for example, a small amount of missing "decimal files" from the 509th Bomb Group…
  • p. 36 …This was a small section of the July Historical Report for the 509th Bomb Group and…
  • p. 37 …To believe that such operational and high-level security activity could be conducted solely by relying…
  • p. 39 …The foil-rubber material could not be tom like ordinary aluminum foil can be tom... " Sally…
  • p. 40 …Although there does not appear to be much dispute that Cavitt was involved in the material…
  • p. 43 …Lt Col Cavitt described a small area of debris which appeared, "to resemble bamboo type square…
  • p. 72 …being per:ormed on these bodies. The bodies were described as the body of a small…
  • p. 99 …It should be noted that the period from approximately 1946 to 1950 is the least well…
  • p. 105 …Several small projects were completed during ~1e mont.~ includine signs on all the·office doors, a…
  • p. 149 …Streett 1s office recaumends against it on the ground that that is a small enterprize down…
  • p. 159 …I do not recall the incident being mentioned again as being any big deal and I…
  • p. 201 …We even simulated a small lightning strike over dry snow (just from the snow blowing over…
  • p. 258 …Big plastic balloon with small auxiliary plastics," etc. "Watson Lab and gear." "Followed" (inaudible) "receiver until…
  • p. 261 …explain bodies or material that can't be folded) by a sledge hammer. Q: Let's…
  • p. 328 …The witnesses have recalled small pink/purple "flowers" that appeared I to be some sort of…
  • p. 401 …b7 how ra* the receiver •7 be re110ve~ .t'rows the pre~er. red height withqut…
  • p. 443 …geostrophic wind (the latter being derived under certain simplifying assumptions) and since the geometry of the…
  • p. 458 …Two designs which compro- mise extreme cost (required for balloons of high internal pressure) with small…
  • p. 479 …This means that several hours might be required to fall through the lanes of aircraft traffic…
  • p. 484 …The change in drag effect may be realized by a decrease of relative size of the…
  • p. 487 (a) Then: (9) or for small temperature differences: (10) : - _L (.AI.)1-B T the nega…
  • p. 490 …gas of a balloon can be lost by: leakage through small holes in the fabric or…
  • p. 491 …for l:n•y small section of altitude is assumed to be constant); and re.J…
  • p. 506 in the preceding, section on diffusion end leakage the appendix opening should be small. It can…
  • p. 521 …is li~ited as indicated above, small variations may be detected with the result that it…
  • p. 555 …being exposed about 10 hours at cold temperature. (:S) During the floating period :many small oscilla…
  • p. 565 …The very usef.ul information about be.llast flow was reported clearly, and the principle of…
  • p. 566 …Since the small external appendix with cardboard stiffeners was not suitable for the large balloon, a…
  • p. 580 …Following the initial activation at about 38,500 feet, small oscillations were introduced into the flight…
  • p. 614 …Figure 4 shows this appendix construction on a General M lls balloon which is being inflated…
  • p. 652 …At high altitudes, a difference of 40°C may be expected in the temperature of the…
  • p. 658 …To facilitate handling of the line segments each length is prepared with a small hook on…
  • p. 672 signals may be arranged so as to consume a very small portion of -transmission time. D…
  • p. 738 …These values may be compared with a diffusion loss of lift of the order of magnitude…
  • p. 742 …The constancy of level will be better the lower the diffusion and the lower, therefore, the…
  • p. 762 …te .::mrcht:.se of small item£. A furth..:r rec:uest ~s been subr:rl tte…
  • p. 783 …be of such a valve that with a large r~diosonde frequency variation for a small…
  • p. 785 …It is expected that this equipment will be flown about 8 l-1ay. A description of…
  • p. 815 …Before gear could be recovered, most of it had be~~tolen. Stations operating at north hanger…
  • p. 842 …Range started to slowly increase as did elevation with azimuth being stationary. The echo remained beyond…
  • p. 862 …By using this stressed tape design, much larger loads may be carried than the thin polyethylene…
  • p. 874 …At this point, two small holes about 18" apart have been made, and the rip line…
  • p. 881 …If thodolite stadia determinations are being made, the banner can be used as one of the…
  • p. 898 …laid out, A small amount of gas at very low pressure Should be valved into the…
  • p. 910 …The motor gears may be cleaned with carbon tetrachloride and a small clean brush. If the…
  • p. 918 …Each combination of dots or dashes may be identified by ear, and with a calibration chart…
have also been used to protect our atomic secrets from the Soviets, which history
has showed obviously was not the case). The records reviewed confirmed that no
such sophisticated and efficient security system existed.
WHAT THE "ROSWELL INCIDENT" WAS
As previously discussed, what was originally reported to have been recovered
was a balloon of some sort, usually described as a "weather balloon," although
the majority of the wreckage that was ultimately displayed by General Ramey
and Major Marcel in the famous photos (Atch 16) in Fort Worth was that of a
radar target normally suspended from balloons. This radar target, discussed in
more detail later, was certainly consistent with the description of July 9 newspa-
per article which discussed "tinfoil, paper, tape, and sticks." Additionally, the
description of the "flying disc" was consistent with a document routinely used
by most pro-UFO writers to indicate a conspiracy in progress-the telegram from
the Dallas FBI office of July 8, 1947. This document quoted in part states:"... The
disc is hexagonal in shape and was suspended from a balloon by a cable, which
balloon was approximately twenty feet in diameter.... the object found resem-
bles a high altitude weather balloon with a radar reflector.... disc and balloon
being transported . . . ."
Similarly, while conducting the popular literature review, one of the documents
reviewed was a paper entitled "The Roswell Events" edited by Fred Whiting and
sponsored by the Fund for UFO Research (FUFOR). Although it was not the
original intention to comment on what commercial authors interpreted or claimed
that other persons supposedly said, this particular document was different
because it contained actual copies of apparently authentic sworn affidavits
received from a number of persons who claimed to have some knowledge of the
Roswell event. Although many of the persons who provided these affidavits to
the FUFOR researchers also expressed opinions that they thought there was
something extraterrestrial about this incident, a number of them actually
described materials that sounded suspiciously like wreckage fro!Jl balloons. These
included the following:
Jesse A. Marcel, MD (son of the late Major Jesse Marcel; 11 years old at the time
of the incident). Affidavit dated May 6, 1991. " ... There were three categories of
debris: a thick, foil like metallic gray substance; a brittle, brownish-black plastic-
like material, like Bakelite; and there were fragments of what appeared to be I-
beams. On the inner surface of the I-beam, there appeared to be a type of writing.
This writing was a purple-violet hue, and it had an embossed appearance. The
figures were composed of curved, geometric shapes. It had no resemblance to
Russian, Japanese or any other foreign language. It resembled hieroglyphics, but
it had no animal-like characters.... "
Loretta Proctor (former neighbor of rancher W.W. Brazel). Affidavit dated May
5, 1991. " ... Brazel came to my ranch and showed my husband and me a piece
of material he said came from a large pile of debris on the property he managed.
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