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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. 6 …Select) Robert Hunter, the 913th Logistics Group Commander, for providing end-of-year assistance. And we…
  • p. 7 …Joseph Fletcher, USAF (Ret); Robert Todd; Frank Press; Vance Mitchell; Lt. Col. Joseph Rogan; Maj. Kevin…
  • p. 11 …Memo with Addendum, Robert J. McCormick, SAF/AA, for Distribution, subj: GAO Review on Records Management…
  • p. 27 …4). Subsequently, the then-Administrative Assistant, Mr. Robert J. McCormick, issued a tasking memorandum dated March…
  • p. 29 …Additionally, the Robert Stack-hosted television show "Unsolved Mysteries" devoted a large portion of one show…
  • p. 31 …Klass, who writes The Skeptic's UFO Newsletter, and Robert Todd, a private researcher. The concerns…
  • p. 34 …recommended by serious private researchers such as Robert Todd, who had independently obtained almost encyclopedic knowledge…
  • p. 39 …I do not remember it having any design or embossing on it ...." Robert R. Porter (B…
  • p. 44 …Moore, Robert Todd, and coincidentally, Karl Pflock, a researcher who is married to a staffer who…
  • p. 51 …In 1989, NBC's "Unsolved Mysteries" inves- tigated the controversy, which the program's host, Robert…
  • p. 75 …manager of KGFL Radio in Roswell, Jud Roberts, says the station was threatened with loss of…
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  • p. 213 …provided some documents to some of them. Robert Todd, rm not sw-e whether he was…
  • p. 219 …No, we did not see that. A: Robert Todd, who has been a person very interested…
  • p. 228 …I didn't know the name Mogul until Robert Todd told me two years ago. I…
  • p. 273 …They were at first a Charles Robert) Todd, from Ardmore, Pennsylvania, who was writing a story…
  • p. 278 …I never met Richard Robert Crane. I knew him only by the path of debris he…
  • p. 299 …Westinghouse Electronics History Museum, Baltimore MD Mr Robert Dwitzbe, President "no balloon activity or balloon-borne…
  • p. 320 …Maj Robert T. Crane, spring 1946-July 1946; Col Marcellus Duffy, August 1946-January, 1947; and…
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CONCLUSIONS.
1. Concerted research has failed to turn up any evidence relating to the Roswell incident
or of a flying saucer(s) and/or alien(s) at Wright-Patterson. Because this conclusion is based on
the absence of documentation, the issue can never be definitively resolved. There will always
be those who say "You didn't search hard enough" or "We know you really do have the
records/saucer(s)/alien(s), but you are just not revealing them to us." It would almost be a
physical impossibility to search every desk drawer in every building on Wright-Patterson looking
for the report, if it ever existed, on Roswell-related material. HQ NAIC is convinced that no
such record currently exists.
2. Because no document has ever been found, however, leads center researchers to the
conclusion that the Roswell material, if it came to Wright-Patterson for analysis, was nothing
remarkable, certainly nothing extraterrestrial. The standard procedure for any government record
is that it is kept for some period of time, then retired or destroyed according to a general
schedule established by regulation. One might assume that a document purporting to be the true
analysis of extraterrestrial material would always be needed and, thus, would have been
preserved.
3. Because the Roswell incident occurred so long ago, now nearly 50 years ago, there
may be no record trail to follow to absolutely determine if a study had ever been conducted.
4. Despite the best efforts of UFO researchers over the years, not one scrap of physical
evidence or one incontestable photograph of either a flying saucer or an alien has ever been
found relating to the Roswell incident. Some researchers have devoted years of their lives to this
effort. Again, using an argument based on the absence of evidence, the fact that several hundred
man-years of effort have followed all of the research trails imaginable leads HQ NAIC to believe
that nothing extraterrestrial was found at Roswell.
5. The earliest UFO literature, books by Ruppelt, Keyhoe, and Menzel do not mention
the Roswell incident. Also, the Blue Book records and the Condon report do not mention the
Roswell incident, though many sightings from 1947 were investigated by this organization's
predecessors. ·
6. HQ NAIC realizes that the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but every
reasonable avenue of research has been exhausted without fmding evidence that a flying saucer(s)
and/or alien(s) have ever been at Wright-Patterson AFB.
7. Because the GAO will have searched the records of many federal agencies, HQ NAIC
suggests that they be contacted, or Congressman Schiff be contacted, for a comprehensive report
of their findings relating to the Roswell incident

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