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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.

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  • 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…
OF"F'1C£ 0~ THE SECRETARY
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON DC 20330-1000
MEMORANDUM FOR DISTRIBUTION
1 March 1994
SUBJECf: GAO Review on Records Management Procedures Dealing with
Weather Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents (GAO
Code 701034)- ACTION MEMORANDUM
References: (a) 23 Feb 94 DoD/IG Memorandum, Subj, same as above
(b) 15 Feb 94 GAO Memorandum of Review Notification
The Department of Defense and other executive branch agencies are undergoing a
review by the GAO concerning whether the US government has "met its responsibility in
the handling, retention, and subsequent disposition of official records concerning the
investigation and reporting of air vehicle and other crash incidents similar to the reported
crash of a weather balloon near Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947". To fulfill the Air
Force portion of this review, addressees, as applicable, are requested to:
(a) identify pertinent directives concerning records retention and disposition;
(b) identify pertinent directives concerning reporting air vehicle crashes,
investigations, and wreckage/debris retention and disposition;
(c) identify~ records (unclassified or classified) related to air vehicle (aircraft,
lighter-than-aircraft, rocket/missile, or other) impacts or crashes in New
Mexico from 20 June to 31 July 1947; identify record groups and/or other
indexes associated with these records for further review; and
(d) provide copies of pertinent directives (including any changes of policies on
retention and disposition) and records (i.e., item c above) to SAF/AAZ, 1720
Air Force Pentagon, Washington DC 20330-1720.
Please provide your responses (interim or final) by 14 Mar 94. Contact Col
Weaver or Lt Col Butler at DSN 223-2013n or commercial (703) 693-2013n if there are
any questions.
2 Attachments:
1. 23 Feb 94 DoD/IG Memo w/encl
2. GAO Issue/Scope/Approach
DISTRIBUTION:
SAF/AAI
SAF/AQL
AF/SE
AF/HO
AF/IN
AF/XOW
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