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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. 3 …The importance of attachment 32, Lieutenant McAndrew's synopsis, derives from his description of Project MOGUL…
  • p. 13 …Photographs, Project MOGUL Balloon Trains 27. Table No.7, Summary of NYU Constant-Level Balloon Flights…
  • p. 14 …Crane as Project Officer for MOGUL and TORRID, June 18, 1946 9. Memo, Maj Gen Curtis…
  • p. 15 …Army GR-3 Sound Ranging Set, TNT Detonation, and Project MOGUL PT Boat Project MOGUL Neoprene…
  • p. 18 …Project MOGUL resulted from two important post-World War II priorities set by the Commanding General…
  • p. 19 …However, too much activity was going on for the project to remain completely hidden. A MOGUL…
  • p. 25 …balloon project, designed to attempt to monitor Soviet nuclear tests, known as Project MOGUL. Additionally, several…
  • p. 41 …Its name was Project MOGUL (Atch 19). Project MOGUL was a then-sensitive, classified project, whose…
  • p. 42 …These interviews confirmed that Project MOGUL was a compartmented, sensitive effort. The NYU group was responsible…
  • p. 43 …so because he was either aware of Project MOGUL and was trying to deflect interest from…
  • p. 44 …Trakowski provided specific details on Project MOGUL and described how the security for the program was…
  • p. 45 In order to provide a more detailed discussion of the specifics of Project MOGUL and how…
  • p. 46 …First, the recovered wreckage was from a Project MOGUL balloon. There were no "alien" passengers therein…
  • p. 48 …Illustration of Project MOGUL "Balloon Trains" 26. Two Photos of Project MOGUL "Balloon Trains" 27. Log…
  • p. 183 …It was called Project Mogul. SC: Never heard of it. RW: Mogul was designed to run…
  • p. 195 …Equipments used in project "Mogul" are common to other systems or sets that are now class…
  • p. 201 …secrecy agreements for various projects, and I understand that this activity (Mogul, etc. is now declassified…
  • p. 205 …I was not aware that the project had the name MOGUL until1992 when I was contacted…
  • p. 206 …The Watson Lab gear was the microphone equipment specifically for MOGUL. The idea was proposed in…
  • p. 213 …I have also been contacted by several researchers and writers and discussed project Mogul and provided…
  • p. 217 …We have gone through many of the various technical documents related to Project Mogul and some…
  • p. 218 …Project Mogul was probably involved in this incident. The materials that were being used in Mogul…
  • p. 220 …it was offered and was the project officer on Mogul. I have some paperwork here from…
  • p. 226 …proving ground across the Tulerosa Valley; and Project Mogul. I joined the NYU group in January…
  • p. 237 …So you were the project engineer? A: I was the project engineer, and Schneider was the…
  • p. 241 …I interpreted that as saying someone was covering up on Mogul. That was my interpretation when…
  • p. 242 …so you went, moving into Mogul, you did go on the June and July field trips…
  • p. 244 …The balloons that you did launch for Project Mogul and some of the other test balloons…
  • p. 246 …Mogul was classified, and he said it had the same classification as the Manhattan Project had…
  • p. 255 …But the aircraft operation here was entirely to support Project Mogul. We didn't consider ourselves…
  • p. 273 …The balloon was not a weather balloon, but was then a classified project, Project MOGUL, which…
  • p. 274 …I came into being as the project officer on Project MOGUL about November of 1946. I…
  • p. 275 …I remained project officer of Project MOGUL through our move of the laboratory from Watson Laboratories…
  • p. 278 …But we were aware of the sensitivity and of the weakness of security in Project MOGUL…
  • p. 281 …At some point in Project MOGUL did you utilize equipment based at Roswell Army Air Field…
  • p. 289 26 Photographs Project MOGUL Balloon Trains
  • p. 299 …60's; we have no reference to Project MOGUL" Ms Betsy xxxxxxxxxx d) Sperry Hagley Museum…
  • p. 300 …Archivist (202) 504-5416 "no records of Project Mogul; recommend checking with DOE historian or the…
  • p. 318 …The project's classified code name was MOGUL. The current investigation discovered that an experimental ba1loon…
  • p. 319 PROJECT MOGUL Project MOGUL was first conceived by Dr. Maurice Ewing of Columbia University, NY, and…
  • p. 320 …Over the course of the project, MOGUL had three military project officers, or "chiefs": Maj Robert…
  • p. 321 Air Forces, in conjunction with Project MOGUL. 10 The NYU "balloon group" was to develop and…
  • p. 322 …advance team made the first launch for Project MOGUL from Alamogordo (NYU flight no. 3). The…
  • p. 323 …Radiosondes, along with aircraft, were to be the primary method to track the Project MOGUL balloons…
  • p. 326 …Over the course of Project MoGUL, several balloons had landed and been recovered from that area…
  • p. 327 …There, it was identified by Colonel Duffy, under whose purview Project MOGUL operated. Colonel Duffy, a…
  • p. 328 …briefing bf the projects, including constant-level balloons, that made up Project MOGUL.40 While crashed…
  • p. 329 …Pritchard, a Watson Laboratory Project Officer (not assigned to MOGUL) stationed at Alamogordo AAF. This article…
  • p. 330 …One instance, on April 7, 1947, Crary gave Pritchard a "progress report for MOGUL project to…
  • p. 331 …Project MoGUL Classification Letter 10. Drawing of "Hieroglyphics" by Prof. C.B. Moore 11. Alamogordo Daily…
  • p. 411 …Crane as Project Officer for MOGUL and TORRID June 18, 1946
  • p. 810 …Gave him memo of progress report for MOGUL project to date, talked to Lt Dyer of…
  • p. 975 …a strong influence on the high- priority Project MoGUL (see Apps 8 and 9 ). He also…
  • p. 979 …Crary (left) and technician Phil Chantz taking a break during Project MOGUL operations at White Sands…
  • p. 980 …received and resulted in the initiation of Project MOGUL (see App 6 ). Photo Courtesy of Woods…
  • p. 981 …Marcellus Duffy, a highly capable scientific research officer, was a MOGUL project officer. Maj. Gen. Curtis…
  • p. 982 MOGUL Project Scientist Dr. James Peoples. Peoples's deci- sion not to bring the radiosonde tracking…
  • p. 984 …This modified PT boat that was assigned to Project MOGUL is shown here off Block Island…
  • p. 985 Launch of Project MOGUL neoprene balloons, Alamogordo AAF, NM, June 1947. While awaiting the experimental polyethylene…
  • p. 986 …Moore (right and reaching down) prepares experimental Project MOGUL microphones for launch (Holloman AFB, Alamogor- do…
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in Newark about 430. Reser!ations to :Jayton on Spirit of St. louis had been cancelled.
'":alled '·fats on Labs. Go:t roomette on Spirit about 530. Called f·'rs Ewing in NYC. Left
::ewark or. '::pirit of St louis at 620 pm.
April 2) Tues. Arrived Dayton, Ohio about 8 30 am. Tried to get return ticket for tonight
but coach car only open, ~ook bus out to ~~right Field, Bldg 28. Saw fo~r Drexler and turned
over 2 of the A for P to him. Colonel Jl'aier on leave. :vent down to Colonel Winter's office
ar.d :our.d :·'ajor Crane there, ~!e talked to Colonel ';linters regarding the need for planes
and about new EO on extended long ranges of the 189-7-1 program which he approved and
c!arl'=ed up to 1-P & t::ent on for higher anpro·.ral. event over with Crane & saw Colonel lind
gard in the plane assignment division and talked about planes. Had lunch with him and then
:.;er.t back to talk to ::::olonel ~at on regarding planes to 189-9-1. ··rent over to look at C-97,
converted B-29 for transport. 3ack to Bldg 28 & talked with General Rives. Request for
planes agrred upon and B-29 1·lill be available near the 1st of June. H~9-7-1 required by
:1i 'les. A for Ps in Drexler's office not yet signed. - will be sent on to \vats on Labs later.
Crane had reservations for me on the Spirit of St Louis and we left Dayton at 8 pm.
Anril 24 1:/ed. Discussed with Crane possibilities of getting sound through the ground part
of the ocean sound channel and about the possibilities of a balloon such as Piccards.
Arrived in nyc about 10)0. ::alled 1iatson Labs and then we took a taxi up to Ewing's office
at Columbia. After Ewing 1-2 class we discussed plans for 188-5 and 189-7-1, both Eglin
Field and long range channel program. Left Ewings office about 6. Crane registered at Hotel
Lexington and I caught 740 out of Penn Station and arrived at Red Bank at 845 pm
April 25 Thurs. Up to Watson Labs. Worked over notes of conference with Ewing yesterday.
Wrote up both travel blanks and sent them down to Travel Order Section. Talked with~Palmer
about ~~Q travel forms. ~·Trote up letter to W:right Field requesting use of second crash boat.
·;rote R~R for 1'lark 2 hydrophone. Talked to lt. Hungerford regarding request of this.
Stepanoff, new physicist for WLERl in this pm. Crane left for Wright Field tonight.
April 26 Fri. Up to :latson Labs. :Jent over purchases already applied for with Reinnagle.
1iyckoff in this am. McCurdy in pm for radio parts. Went back to Oakhurst with McCurdy
this P~;
April 27 Sat. Left Red Bank about 730 AM with McCurdy in his car. Drove through NJ at
TRenton & down to Philadelphia, Mac left me off at Olney at subway station. Contacted
Marion at Bankers Security and went by train with her·to Newton, Pa at 100 PM • Stayed
with ?laggs •
Apr 28 Sun. 'iolayne & l'larion drove me over to Trenton, NJ & I caught 1030 am train into NYC.
;vent up to Ewings about 1215. Joe.Worzel there & Hilly Barbour. They left for Woods Hole
about 2 PM. I caught 5.50 train out of Penn Station to Red Bank, NJ
April 29 Mon. Up to Watson Labs. Checked over at library to have some periodicals obtained.
lient over water work with rl:cCurdy regarding what is needed in way of purchase's. •Went over
to Oahhurst with Roke, new engineer, former Lt. Commander in Navy. Talked to Charlie
Ireland regarding Eglin Field work.
April )0, Tues. Up to Oakhurst. Went over equipment that would be left there and what we
might do when rest of people gone to Whitesands with Wyckoff. Wyckoff and I took car to
Hatsom labs to conference with Col Duffy of Weather Bureau, Capt Kellogg and Col Gault.
Discussed weather problems - on eqpt? and S658s & aerography neede in coming work. Discussed
equipment with HcCurdy pm and tried to find where demolition cable could be located,
Vay 1 ~led. l'p to ~vatson labs. Talked with Stepanoff and 'Wyckoff regarding work to be done
while crew was recording '.lhite Sands in New Mex:hco. Commander Navy arrived about 1130 am
and we held a conference -Gault, Compton?, Dove Crane, 'tlyckoff, Hungerfield, 'faux and
~yself regarding Navy participation with us in Crossroads. Captain Kellogg of Weather
Service over pm and talked with Crane and I regarding 658s, airgraphs, etc. Got travel
orders etc to Columbia tomorrow. ~vyckoff and about 11 others leaving for White Sands by
plane tomorrow morning. Up to lab tonight with Crane.
~ay 2 Thursda~. Left Red Bank on 8 am train, off at Elizabeth and took ferry to NYC.
Up to GCT and then up to Docs. Too late for talk with Kellogg but in time for conference
with Ewing, Lane of Columbia, Gallo, Bradford, Dove and Crane of Hatson labs. Conference
went over contracts with Columbia and ~~. Crane and I talked to Dove for short time after
dinner. Caught 11)0 sleeper to Boston tonight.
!lay 3 ?ri. Arrived \.foods Hole 1045 am . \ient over to Falmouth with Dorothy. Up to lab: pm
with Joe \i. Talked to Jim Peoples re his amplifier. and level recorder, Bump and Kit over
tQri~h~.tSaw Columbus PM.
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