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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. 5 …Also, Robert "Gus" Bell contributed with his attractive art work; Richard Wolf provided invaluable computer expertise…
  • p. 14 …Mensuration Working Paper, with Drawing and Photo xiv
  • p. 19 …The ruse worked. However, too much activity was going on for the project to remain completely…
  • p. 28 …The balloon which held it up, if that is how it worked, must have been about…
  • p. 31 …These works included: The Roswell Incident (1980) by William Moore and Charles Berlitz; "Crashed Saucers: Evidence…
  • p. 34 …specialists, including experienced persons who have continually worked in Army and Air Force records systems since…
  • p. 42 …or classified about their work; they were told only that their work dealt with meteorological equipment…
  • p. 43 …of umbrella cover story to protect our work with MOGUL." Although the Air Force did not…
  • p. 44 …who is married to a staffer who works for Congressman Schiff. Some of these persons provided…
  • p. 48 …Synopsis of Balloon Research Findings by 1st Lt James McAndrew 33. "Mensuration Working Paper," With Drawing…
  • p. 51 …to the case, and that not enough work had been done to report any results to…
  • p. 55 …The work will be performed under GAO code 701034 by staff from our National Security Analysis…
  • p. 56 …Initial work will be performed at the Department of Defense, the Services, specialized defense agencies, and…
  • p. 59 …Secur~ty and Inter.nationa1 Affairs Division (National Security Analysis) is doinq the work. The review…
  • p. 75 …Mary Kathryn Groode, and his friend, John Kromschroeder. • A mortician who worked for the funCr.ll…
  • p. 76 …Conversations with a dozen people who had worked in the Project Blue Book office or with…
  • p. 106 …This has caused a large back log o£ important work to pile up. The following is…
  • p. 145 …civilian, Joe Shipman, who works with Col. Hackett is re~orted to have t~ld the…
  • p. 148 …Harness advised he thought we were getting the Merger Bill worked out pretty fine. 9:35…
  • p. 164 …I had two enJisted agents "working for me" quote end quote. RW: Who were the enlisted…
  • p. 169 …He worked for an insane asylum up in the Washington DC area. I think his wife…
  • p. 170 …He did quite a bit of work for the Air Force, as I found through research…
  • p. 183 …we went to all the different records. Working for me I have a group of reservists…
  • p. 191 …I need two plug ins to make this thing work. SC: You need two? RW: One…
  • p. 196 …the &ranting or clearanc•• to do the work. Both mthods haw bean succesatul.J¥ u.sod…
  • p. 201 …I worked on naval activity such as the thermal affects on SONAR. Concerning actual baUoon construction…
  • p. 205 …Our subsequent work with the balloons and microphones was highly classified and we didn't know…
  • p. 206 …We didn't pattern our work after the Japanese balloons. We were very secretive of our…
  • p. 213 …Charles Ziegler was working on the history of nuclear weapons detection capability. He had some letters…
  • p. 214 …Concerning the name Maj Pritchard, he may have worked for me but I don't recall…
  • p. 217 …Project Mogul and some of the other work that you and Dr. Spilhaus and others have…
  • p. 221 …He and I worked together. He was in Maine, and was not really technically involved. I…
  • p. 227 …With some difficulty we got Otto Winzen who was the entrepreneur cmd promoter, working with Get…
  • p. 228 …So you're doing that work from China? And we over and the entire our A…
  • p. 230 …Schneider and others from NYU, also Irewin, Minton, Olson, NYU men worked on balloons, north hangar."
  • p. 233 …Before you left active duty, while you were still working with Duffy and Spilhaus, did they…
  • p. 234 …While I was at Georgia Tech I began working with a microwave, an anonymous propagation research…
  • p. 236 …The reason I got into balloons is that while I was working on this manual there…
  • p. 237 …At that point you were working at New York University under the direction .•. A: Spilhaus was…
  • p. 240 …He worked for a Tracer lab and is just bringing out a book on the early…
  • p. 242 …Just for the record, ·Major Marcel later worked at AFOAT-1. Do you recognize him at…
  • p. 251 …It often didn't work. That was the reason why for Operation Sandstone in April and…
  • p. 253 …We just worked out of motels in Roswell. Q: I thought I saw you had a…
  • p. 258 …When we sent people to Roswell, Hackman worked out of a motel to receive. So the…
  • p. 259 …I do know that I worked carefully with a guy named Larry Dyvad, a pilot, who…
  • p. 260 …You were just saying hey, what's going to work best to get the data, so…
  • p. 269 …Tibbetts, the radar lieutenant working for Fletcher, said that when they got these in '44 there…
  • p. 274 …In the course of the research projects you worked on, in that time frame-the postwar…
  • p. 275 …You were on-site in New Mexico when Charlie Moore was doing most of his work…
  • p. 276 …Did he work for you at Watson Laboratories? A: No. He didn't work for me…
  • p. 279 …Do you recall any of the contractors he may have worked with? A: No, I don…
  • p. 280 …That's where John had his office, and I was there for a time doing work…
  • p. 282 …We worked in the old Sun newspaper building in downtown Baltimore. Q: They had intelligence personnel…
  • p. 283 …I know he worked with the U.S. Geological Survey, a very, very fine organization, and…
  • p. 318 …rest on the ranch on which he worked near the town of Corona, NM. This was…
  • p. 322 …In addition, Crary maintlained a detailed journal of his work throughout his professional career to incluc…
  • p. 323 …25 Balloons most suitable for this type of work were made of polyethylene, a very thin…
  • p. 325 …9 appeared to have been launched on July 3.34 On July 8, their work completed…
  • p. 330 …It was apparent from Crary's diary that he had worked very closely with Major Pritchard…
  • p. 379 …MonOay he came to town to sell worked, must have bt!en about 12 some sort…
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:;:lee 17 ':'ues. Got Chantz a Jeep to use on Station 3. '·lent out to //J made final checks -
';hantz stayed there. '·1oodruff and I 1-1ent to Station 1 and made final checks there. '·!oodruff
:.:rove me to 3tation 2 and then "ent tack to 1. ·r-2 rocket went up at about 1015~mGot Brush
reco:::ding - 1 trace &. P.ubicon at 2. ·.;oodruff r;ot EST & Rubicon at 1 -though had interfer-
ence 'Nith other group. Chantz got GR 3 & Rubicon record at fl3. Back to :20Q about 12. Rub-
icon & EST recordinr:s not yet developed.
:-:ec 1 R '·led, Chantz and I went out to Sta J and got all equipment together and back to camp
acout 1 - went in borrowed weapon carrier. '.:oody and Jeff 7owler took other weapon carrier
::1~d collected all equipment from Sites 1 and 2. Packed all equipnent at north hanger and
loaded it into truck, ~•hich was ther: put on plane. Got data fro:n I -2 firings from Fri tchard':
office. left Alamogordo about 730 pm in C-54 and went to El Faso Biggs Field.
I'ec 10 "hurs. 'tlent down to :<;1 Faso this morning and then across to Juarez. Back to ::Jiggs
cield about 230 pm. S-_54 left El Paso 400 pm , landed in Patterson ~ield, Dayton, Ohio 110ar.
Dec 20 "'ri. Left Dayton about 9 am & arrived ir: Olmsted Field near Harrisburg, Pa about
noon. lt Carroll and Clowry drove us down to Pa RR station. Got 150 out of Harrisburg and
arrived in Newark 6 pm. '::aught train to Asbury Park.
Dec 21 Sat. Chantz went down to Oakhurst: and developed 3 Rubicon recordings from White Sands
and EST recording at 3ite r 1. Site !!1 recording poor, possibly NG. Looked over recordings
octained at Oakhurst on bonbing run of 19 Dec.
Dec 22 Sun. Cut to Peoples this evening in f.~arlsboro.
Dec 23 r~on. Oakhurst. ~-Torked on Alamogordo and Flight 13. Had flight # 14 this pm. - 24
bombs starting at 2 pm. Ran CR-3, Brush and Rubicon at lab. Woodruff went out to Farmingdal•
with van and Rubicon but results NG. No shots apparent on recordings.
Dec 24 Tues. Oakhurst. Closed down about 1130. Worked on Flight# 14 and work from NYU.
Jtarted Stepan off on extension of Aug 8 flight. Into NYC Pr·: and caught 1045 sleeper to NI'iY
Dec 28 Sat. Cold NE winds and storms all day. Unable to get roads cleared out. Cancelled
reservations for this evening to NYC.
Dec 29 Sun. Caught 805 sleeper to NYC this evening.
Dec JO f·'on.Arrived NYC about 915 am - caught 1040 out of Penn Sta, arrived Asbury Park
about 1 pm. '{orked on Alamogordo results. Went over work with l"~cCurdy who proposed new
type instrument and wants authority to go ahead with it.
Dec 31 Tues. Oakhurst. Flight .¥ 15 this morning at 1040 - 1105. '·Toody went out to Farmingdal
and recorded on Rubicon drum. Recorded also on Rubicon drum T-9- Brush and GRJ-T-8. 3et up
sonobuoy 1000 ft * west of T-8-0. Times Square tonight.
1947
Jan 1 Wed Asbury Park. Snowstorm pm
Jan 2 Thurs. Oakhurst. Worked with V on flights 12,. 13 andJpart of 14. Got Alamogordo
results together. Conference this pm with Colonel Duffy and showed him my results with
H~g5~rf~do~~Ur~t~~f{gg ·with 1f on Flights 14 and 15 and started NYU data of Sept 12.
Stepanoff on extension of August 9 results. Conference pm: Dr. Ewing, Spilhaus, Dr Ference
of Evans, Duffy. Discussed Evans pro~am and' air'flight and Alaomgordo results. Made arr-
angements for cooperation with Evans in coming tests.
Jan 4 Sat. At Oakhurst about 3 hours. Finished getting velocities for Sept 17 flight and
started work on data of Oct 4 cruise.
Jan 6 r-:on. Oakhurst. Finished '/eloci ty data for Oct 4 and Oct 16 from NYU meteorological
studies. Stepanoff finished Aug 9 data and started on# 1 of Sept 12. }:oved into new build-
ing next to T-8-0 today.
Jan 7 Tues. Oakhurst. '.rivian worked up ray paths, time and distance for Vel #2 of Sept 12.
Started on Aug 8 data to get Stepan off's figures together for study above 15 kms. ;-Tent
scouting for location of sono buoy west of Oakhurst Arm about 3000 ft. Chantz and l<loodruff
on calitration of Alamogordo instruments and fixing up of equipment for field uses.
Jan 8 /led. Oakhurst. ~-lorked on Aug 8 cruise, making final calculations for sky wave. ., on
'Tel ifJ, Sept 12 cruise. '.voody and I went over to high ridge 2900 ft west of Oakhurst with
sonobuoy which worked into GRJ.
Jan 9 Thurs. Oakhurst. ~·lor ked on sky wa·Te data. Vi vi an and Stepan off on Sept 12 ray paths.
Flight# 16 at 1200 to 1220 pm. No noticeable results. Used sonobuoy at 160' hill back of
labs. ·
Jan 10 Fri. Oakhurst. Into ~·Iatson Labs at 9 to take supervisor's test. Trak01-rski, Peoples anc
I went to Camp Evans and discussed results of ''2 rocket recordings informally. Flight #17
this PM 1600 to 1620. '!orked on sky wave lata

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