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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. 28 …Major Marcel and "a man in plain clothes" then accompanied Brazel home to pick up the…
  • p. 29 …sort of attachment may have been used. Brazel said that he had previously found two weather…
  • p. 38 …of rancher W.W. Brazel). Affidavit dated May 5, 1991. " ... Brazel came to my ranch and…
  • p. 39 …The color of the printing was a kind of purple ...." Bessie Brazel Schreiber (daughter of W…
  • p. 43 …and was ultimately found by the rancher, Brazel, ten days later. This possibility was supported by…
  • p. 44 …Pflock concluded from his research that the Brazel Ranch debris originally reported as a "flying disc…
  • p. 46 …source of the wreckage recovered from the Brazel Ranch was from one of the Project MOGUL…
  • p. 75 …For e:wnple:. • According to his son arid neighbors, Brazel was held incommunicado by officials at…
  • p. 172 …Colonel Wdliam Blanchard and the other officer suggested that Marcel and CIC agent accompanied Brazel to…
  • p. 174 …certainly don't remember ever meeting Mr. Brazel or Brazzel, whatever his name was. RW: O…
  • p. 187 …a follow up article where they interview Brazel (the rancher), and he descnoed this stuff almost…
  • p. 218 …material that was found, supposedly by Mac Brazel, somewhere northwest of Roswell, New Mexico. They talk…
  • p. 222 …Going back to Brazel, you state that you think it could not be one of the…
  • p. 233 …The description that Brazel gives here that everything would weigh about five pounds when it was…
  • p. 252 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 Brazel gives the impression that it is the smoky rubber of…
  • p. 318 THE ROSWELL INCIDENT On July 7, 1947, W.W. (Mac) Brazel, a rancher from approximately 75…
  • p. 325 …Descriptions of the debris provided by Brazel, Cavitt, Crary's diary, and the photos of the…
  • p. 328 …were later reported by Marcel, Cavitt, and Brazel as being on the debris found on the…
  • p. 379 …anywhere on the instrument, al- Brazel was brought here late ty, age 14, went back to…
  • p. 986 …of the type that W.W. "Mac" Brazel recovered on a ranch near Corona, NM, in…
In order to provide a more detailed discussion of the specifics of Project MOGUL
and how it appeared to be directly responsible for the "Roswell Incident," a
SAF I AAZD researcher prepared a more detailed discussion on the balloon project
which is appended to this report as Atch 32.
Other Research
In the attempt to develop additional information that could help explain this
matter, a number of other steps were taken. First, assistance was requested from
various museums and other archives (Atch 28) to obtain information and/ or
examples of the actual balloons and radar targets used in connection with Project
MOGUL and to correlate them with the various descriptions of wreckage and
materials recovered. The blueprints for the "Pilot Balloon Target ML307C/ AP
Assembly" (generically, the radar target assembly) were located at the Army
Signal Corps Museum at Fort Monmouth and were obtained. A copy is appended
as Atch 29. This blueprint provides the specification for the foil material, tape,
wood, eyelets, and string used and the assembly instructions thereto. An actual
device was also obtained for study with the assistance of Professor Moore. (The
example actually procured was a 1953-manufactured model"C" as compared to
the Model B which was in use in 1947. Professor Moore related the differences
were minor.) An examination of this device revealed it to be simply made of
aluminum-colored foil-like material over a stronger paper-like material, attached
to balsa wood sticks, affixed with tape, glue, and twine. When opened, the device
appears as depicted in Atch 31 (contemporary photo) and Atch 25 (1947 photo,
in a "balloon train"). When folded, the device is in a series of triangles, the largest
being 4 feet by 2 feet 10 inches. The smallest triangle section measures 2 feet by
2 feet 10 inches. (Compare with descriptions provided by Lt Col Cavitt and
others, as well as photos of wreckage.)
Additionally, the researchers obtained from the Archives of the University of
Texas-Arlington (UTA), a set of original (i.e., first generation) prints of the
photographs taken at the time by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, that depicted
Ramey and Marcel with the wreckage. A close review of these photos (and a set
of first-generation negatives also subsequently obtained from UTA) revealed
several interesting observations. First, although in some of the literature cited
above, Marcel allegedly stated that he had his photo taken with the "real" UFO
wreckage and then it was subsequently removed and the weather balloon
wreckage substituted for it, a comparison shows that the same wreckage appeared
in the photos of Marcel and Ramey. The photos also depicted that this material
was lying on what appeared to be some sort of wrapping paper (consistent with
affidavit excerpt of crew chief Porter, above). It was also noted that in the two
photos of Ramey he had a piece of paper in his hand. In one, it was folded over
so nothing could be seen. In the second, however, there appears to be text printed
on the paper. In an attempt to read this text to determine if it could shed any
further light on locating documents relating to this matter, the photo was sent to
a national-level organization for digitizing and subsequent photo interpretation
and analysis. This organization was also asked to scrutinize the digitized photos
for any indication of the flowered tape (or "hieroglyphics," depending on the
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