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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. 5 …Additionally, historians Alfred Beck, William Heimdahl, Roger Miller, Eduard Mark, and Jacob Neufeld shared with us…
  • p. 10 …Security markings have been deleted from previously classified documents. The reader is advised that blacked-out…
  • p. 35 …covered the years 1945-1949, that were marked on the index as "destroyed." The researchers noted…
  • p. 39 …I do not recall any other types of material or markings, nor do I remember seeing…
  • p. 41 figures on the sticks, lavender or pink in color, appeared to be weather faded markings, with…
  • p. 51 …UFO buffs contend the incident marked the beginning of a government conspiracy to sup- press evidence…
  • p. 99 …Although we cannot be absolutely sure that the histories marked "no holding" in the above list…
  • p. 167 …No marks in the ground, dug up, anything hidden, or anything like that, just out on…
  • p. 201 …Some bush pilot had found some pock marks in dty snow in Alaska in 1950. So…
  • p. 219 …When this purplish-pink marking on the debris came up, I immediately remembered this sort of…
  • p. 220 …men, and they were joking about these markings on the tape. I have a letter that…
  • p. 224 …No, because he said it was balsa sticks and smoky rubber and had those curious markings…
  • p. 230 …White Sands to record Hermes." I've marked the key things here with red, and then…
  • p. 309 …in color, appeared to be weather faded markings, with no rhyme or reason. He did not…
  • p. 329 …the wreckage, also remembers the purple/pink marks. Newton stated that when he was called to…
  • p. 558 …On this flight re- cord, marked oscillations are observed at three points. Despite the presence of…
  • p. 563 …KENT, TEXAS Figure 25 On Flight 71 marked oscillations are seen at the fleeting level and…
  • p. 566 …From the height-t~e curve of this flight (Figure 29) the very marked effect of…
  • p. 567 …Pre- sumably the marked easterly flow then observed above 60.000 feet carried this second flight…
  • p. 667 …Figure 46 shows the train; figure 47 shows the time-altitude curve, Which exhibits a marked…
  • p. 910 …minute, the distance between successive re- ference marks will be 30 to 40 centimeters de- -56-
  • p. 915 …is measurable by the distance be- tween the reference marks. If there is a sudden -61-
  • p. 920 …are reached. (c) Check pressure of the marking pens. Too much pressure of the pens on…
  • p. 923 …This may be done by measuring the horizontal distance be- tween the temperature and pressure marks…
point of view) that were reputed to be visible to some of the persons who
observed the wreckage prior to its getting to Fort Worth. This organization
reported on July 20, 1994, that even after digitizing, the photos were of insuffi-
cient quality to visualize either of the details sought for analysis. This organiza-
tion was able to obtain measurements from the "sticks" visible in the debris after
it was ascertained by an interview of the original photographer what kind of
camera he used. The results of this process are provided in Atch 33, along with
a reference diagram and the photo from which the measurements were made. All
these measurements are compatible with the wooden materials used in the radar
target previously described.
CONCLUSION
The Air Force research did not locate or develop any information that the
"Roswell Incident'~ was a UFO event. All available official materials, although
they do not directly address Roswell per se, indicate that the most likely source
of the wreckage recovered from the Brazel Ranch was from one of the Project
MOGUL balloon trains. Although that project was Top Secret at the time, there was
also no specific indication found to indicate an official preplanned cover story was
in place to explain an event such as that which ultimately happened. It appears
that the identification of the wreckage as being part of a weather balloon device,
as reported in the newspapers at the time, was based on the fact that there was
no physical difference in the radar targets and the neoprene balloons (other than
the numbers and configuration) between MOGUL balloons and normal weather
balloons. Additionally, it seems that there was overreaction by Colonel Blanchard
and Major Marcel in originally reporting that a "flying disc" had been recovered
when, at that time, nobody knew for sure what that term even meant, since it had
only been in use for a couple of weeks.
Likewise, there was no indication in official records from the period that there
was heightened military operational or security activity which should have been
generated if this was, in fact, the first recovery of materials and/ or persons from
another world. The postwar US military (or today's for that matter) did not have
the capability to rapidly identify, recover, coordinate, cover up, and quickly
minimize public scrutiny of such an event. The claim that they did so without
leaving even a little bit of a suspicious paper trail for 47 years is incredible.
It should also be noted here that there was little mentioned in this report about
the recovery of the so-called "alien bodies." This is for several reasons: First, the
recovered wreckage was from a Project MOGUL balloon. There were no "alien"
passengers therein. Secondly, the pro-UFO groups who espouse the alien bodies
theories cannot even agree among themselves as to what, how many, and where
such bodies were supposedly recovered. Additionally, some of these claims have
been shown to be hoaxes, even by other UFO researchers. Thirdly, when such
claims are made, they are often attributed to people using pseudonyms or who
otherwise do not want to be publicly identified, presumably so that some sort of
retribution cannot be taken against them (notwithstanding that nobody has been
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