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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…
The piece he brought was brown in color, similar to plastic .... 'Mac' said the
other material on the property looked like aluminum foil. It was very flexible and
wouldn't crush or bum. There was also something he described as tape which
had printing on it. The color of the printing was a kind of purple ...."
Bessie Brazel Schreiber (daughter of W.W. Brazel; 14 years old at the time of the
incident). Affidavit dated September 22, 1993. " ... The debris looked like pieces
of a large balloon which had burst. The pieces were small, the largest I remember
measuring about the same as the diameter of a basketball. Most of it was a kind
of double-sided material, foil-like on one side and rubber-like on the other. Both
sides were grayish silver in color, the foil more silvery than the rubber. Sticks, like
kite sticks, were attached to some of the pieces with a whitish tape. The tape was
about two or three inches wide and had flower-like designs on it. The 'flowers'
were faint, a variety of pastel colors, and reminded me of Japanese paintings in
which the flowers are not all connected. I do not recall any other types of material
or markings, nor do I remember seeing gouges in the ground or any other signs
that anything may have hit the ground hard. The foil-rubber material could not
be tom like ordinary aluminum foil can be tom... "
Sally Strickland Tadolini (neighbor of W.W. Brazel; nine years old in 1947).
Affidavit dated September 27, 1993. " ... What Bill showed us was a piece of
what I still think as fabric. It was something like aluminum foil, something like
satin, something like well-tanned leather in its toughness, yet was not precisely
like any one of those materials....It was about the thickness of very fine kidskin
glove leather and a dull metallic grayish silver, one side slightly darker than the
other. I do not remember it having any design or embossing on it ...."
Robert R. Porter (B-29 flight Engineer stationed at Roswell in 1947). Affidavit
dated June 7, 1991. " ... On this occasion, I was a member of the crew which flew
parts of what we were told was a flying saucer to Fort Worth. The people on
board included ... and Maj Jesse Marcel. Capt. William E. Anderson said it was
from a flying saucer. After we arrived, the material was transferred to a B-25. I
was told they were going to Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. I was involved in
loading the B-29 with the material, which was wrapped in packages with
wrapping paper. One of the pieces was triangle-shaped, about 2 1/2 feet across
the bottom. The rest were in small packages, about the size of a shoe box. The
brown paper was held with tape. The material was extremely lightweight. When
I picked it up, it was just like picking up an empty package. We loaded the
triangle shaped package and three shoe box-sized packages into the plane. All of
the packages could have fit into the trunk of a car.... When we came back from
lunch, they told us they had transferred the material to a B-25. They told us the
material was a weather balloon, but I'm certain it wasn't a weather balloon...."
In addition to those persons above still living who claim to have seen or exam-
ined the original material found on the Brazel Ranch, there is one additional
person who was universally acknowledged to have been involved in its recovery,
Sheridan Cavitt, Lt Col, USAF (Ret). Cavitt is credited in all claims of having
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