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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. 19 …MOGUL; their job was to deliver nuclear weapons, not to detect them. The unusual combination of…
  • p. 36 …happened near Roswell may have involved nuclear weapons. This was a logical area of concern since…
  • p. 41 …to determine the state of Soviet nuclear weapons research. This was the early Cold War period…
  • p. 183 …that time where we either dropped a weapon or did something stupid, which we had to…
  • p. 201 …long range balloons; although not effective as weapons, they did initiate the long-range balloon research…
  • p. 213 …Charles Ziegler was working on the history of nuclear weapons detection capability. He had some letters…
  • p. 249 …Out PM with several NYU men by weapons carrier, but we never located it. Rocket postponed…
  • p. 251 …so I took a weapons carrier and drove up there. We were aggressively trying to recover…
  • p. 253 …We drove up in a weapons carrier to the Roswell Army Air Field, and tried to…
  • p. 264 …We civilians were driving weapons carriers to carry helium around, and to go into town to…
  • p. 273 …a book on the history of nuclear weapons detection. It figured, of course, that Project MOGUL…
  • p. 274 …I had considerable background in nuclear weapons detection, using devices that I had developed in the…
  • p. 326 …in the :world capable of delivering nuclear weapons. It now appears that the debris from MOGUL…
  • p. 401 …a.~tack:; -;;it"t st.~c!"et weapons. ' The moat prom1a1ne. .eJ"PC'• oi: li6tening etatlon…
  • p. 804 …Dec 13 Fri.Woody and I left Alamogordo Air Base in weapon carrier and scouted out…
  • p. 805 …went in borrowed weapon carrier. '.:oody and Jeff 7owler took other weapon carrier ::1~d collected…
  • p. 808 …Phil and Sal went out to Dona and Launching Sites with weapon carrier. Hoffman, DeTurk and…
  • p. 812 …May 19 Mon Reynolds and I left about 0745 in weapon carrier for Silver City. Arrived…
  • p. 813 …Edmondson and I left about 0845 in weapon carrier for Roswell. Arrived at Hagerman about 12…
  • p. 815 …Out pm with several NYU by weapon carrier but we never located it. Rocket postponed until…
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~ay 4 Sat. Up at WHOI this am. Out with John Ewing taking bottom shots in water. Worked
with Joe on his boat this pm. Over to Jim and Rowes tonight and to Euzzards Bay bowling,
l'ay 5 Sun. L'p to ·.moi about 11. '·!ent over deep water equipment 'trith Joe :·lorzel and Jim
Peoples. Jim and I caught cOO pm train to Boston tonight, got 1130 pm Owl to ?YC
f.'ay 6 ron. Caught 625 train out of Penn Station to Red Bank. Arrived Red Bank 730 and caught>
bus out to 'tTatson labs. Checked at library for caps?militar;tnfo. Called up l:orris of Supply
and wrote supply request. Stepanoff in fm Oakhurst. :Jrote up weekly report to Watson Labs
for 189-7-1. Arranged truck to take fathometer to Nyack, F. Y. for 104' boat and bring back
microbaragraph from C:olumcia. Vent out to Oakhurst and saw Rooke who is >forking on.. flux-
meter, and got fathometer IWB-1 ready to send to Nyack. :fent over list of parts needed
189-7-1 with Peoples, Peoples signed in at '·Tat son Labs today. Capt Kellogg in from Evans
labs re how they can help- rough draft of letter of request to be written by Col Graul.
Got travel orders to NYC tomorrow and to Nyack.
}'ay 7 Tues. Jim Peoples and I caught 608 train out of Red Bank and arri ·1ed 5:wing 's office
about 850 am. Conference at Ewing's office Gallo, Bradley, Crane, Peoples and I from Watson
Labs 1 Lane and Ewing of Columbia and Iselin and r·:ccrory? of WHOI regarding 189-7-1 contract
of WHOI with Columbia. Conference later Iselin, Crane, Ewing, Peoples and myself regarding
technical procedure and plan for Atlantis 1 Anton Dohrn and two boats of Hatson Lab ,for
summer and next winter. Crane, Peoples and I left about 240 pm for Nyack, NY in Army car.
Arrived in Nyack at Peterson's Shipbuilding Co, new 104' boat P778 docked about the same
time. 1olent over all changes and additions to the boat w1 th Gifford and made plans for con-
version to our needs. Left Nyack about 6, Jim Peoples and I caught 740 train out of Penn
Station and arrived i~ Red Bank 9 pm.
ray 8 '..ted. Jim Peoples and I went up to \-Iatson Labs this am

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