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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…
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  • 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…
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  • 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…
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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