“debris”60+ pages
- 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
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- 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…
accompanied Major Marcel to the ranch to recover the debris, sometimes along
with his Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) subordinate, Lewis Rickett, who, like
Marcel, is deceased. Although there does not appear to be much dispute that
Cavitt was involved in the material recovery, other claims about him prevail in
the popular literature. He is sometimes portrayed as a closed-mouth (or some-
times even sinister) conspirator who was one of the early individuals who kept
the "secret of Roswell" from getting out. Other things about him have been
alleged, including the claim that he wrote a report of the incident at the time that
has never surfaced.
Since Lt Col Cavitt, who had firsthand knowledge, was still alive, a decision was
made to interview him and get a signed sworn statement from him about his
version of the events. Prior to the interview, the Secretary of the Air Force
provided him with a written authorization and waiver to discuss classified
information with the interviewer and release him from any security oath he may
have taken. Subsequently, Cavitt was interviewed on May 24, 1994, at his home.
Cavitt provided a signed, sworn statement (Atch 17) of his recollections in this
matter. He also consented to having the interview tape-recorded. A transcript of
that recording is at Atch 18. In this interview, Cavitt related that he had been
contacted on numerous occasions by UFO researchers and had willingly talked
with many of them; however, he felt that he had oftentimes been misrepresented
or had his comments taken out of context so that their true meaning was changed.
He stated unequivocally, however, that the material he recovered consisted of a
reflective sort of material like aluminum foil, and some thin, bamboo-like sticks.
He thought at the time, and continued to do so today, that what he found was
a weather balloon and has told other private researchers that. He also remem-
bered finding a small "black box" type of instrument, which he thought at the
time was probably a radiosonde. Lt Col Cavitt also reviewed the famous
Ramey /Marcel photographs (Atch 16) of the wreckage taken to Fort Worth (often
claimed by UFO researchers to have been switched and the remnants of a balloon
substituted for it}, and he identified the materials depicted in those photos as
consistent with the materials that he recovered from the ranch. Lt Col Cavitt also
stated that he had never taken any oath or signed any agreement not to talk
about this incident and had never been threatened by anyone in the government
because of it. He did not even know the "incident" was claimed to be anything
unusual until he was interviewed in the early 1980's.
Similarly, Irving Newton, Major, USAF (Ret}, was located and interviewed.
Newton was a weather officer assigned to Fort Worth, who was on duty when
the Roswell debris was sent there in July, 1947. He was told that he was to report
to General Ramey's office to view the material. In a signed, sworn statement
(Atch 30) Newton related that " ... I walked into the General's office where this
supposed flying saucer was lying all over the floor. As soon as I saw it, I giggled
and asked if that was the flying saucer .... I told them that this was a balloon
and a RAWIN target...."Newton also stated that"... while I was examining
the debris, Major Marcel was picking up pieces of the target sticks and trying to
convince me that some notations on the sticks were alien writings. There were
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