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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. 40 …debris, sometimes along with his Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) subordinate, Lewis Rickett, who, like Marcel, is…
  • p. 45 …assembly) were located at the Army Signal Corps Museum at Fort Monmouth and were obtained. A…
  • p. 75 …and a Counter Intelligence Corps Officer, Sheridan Cavitt, went to the ranch to inspect the material…
  • p. 105 …Colonel Oliver LaFarge, Air Reserve Corps, at Santa Fe, made atrangernents for Colonel Blanchard to visit…
  • p. 159 …or unlawful inducement. ~ ~I was a Counterintelligence Corps (CIC) Special Agent for the US Army AU…
  • p. 163 …the Army Air Corps... right. RW: When did you get transferred to Roswell, Sir? SC: I…
  • p. 166 …activity like that, I was Counter Intelligence Corps, this didn't have anything to do with…
  • p. 168 …There was nobody else out there from CIC or Counter Intelligence Corps that you knew of…
  • p. 169 …did, in the Air Force; the Air Corps. I think they wanted to ... they were having…
  • p. 170 …six) "was an agent in the counterintelligence corps. He accompanied another intelligence officer on the initial…
  • p. 172 …Not that you personally did, but the Army Air Corps in general: "The trip to the…
  • p. 213 …Previously, I was appointed as the laboratory chief in the Signal Corps as an Air Force…
  • p. 214 …Some of the contractors lined up were not quite in concert with typical Signal Corps practices…
  • p. 217 …One of the individuals, Sheridan Cavitt, who at that time was a Counter-Intelligence Corps officer…
  • p. 224 …Colonel Duffy was assigned to extract meteorological.equipment out of the Signal_Corps in 1943. There…
  • p. 225 …Colonel Duffy talked to the field artillery that was procuring through the Signal Corps, gun-laying…
  • p. 236 …During WWII, the ·signal Corps had laid on them the requirement to develop a constant level…
  • p. 246 …V-2s and other rockets the Ordnance Corps people were flying over at White Sands. So…
  • p. 264 …I knew the Signal Corps designation, the SCR-584s and 270-s, etc., but this was…
  • p. 268 …We talked with the Signal Corps up at Fort Monmouth and that's where we got…
  • p. 274 …I was an Air Force officer assigned to the Signal Corps as part of Colonel Duffy…
  • p. 277 …Signal Corps and Army Air Force? A: All the officers that I had on my staff…
  • p. 278 …It was the Signal Corps' responsibility to procure those targets; it was not the responsibility of…
  • p. 279 …He got into a considerable amount of, shall we say, controversy with the Signal Corps because…
  • p. 299 …a) US Army Signal Corps Museum, Ft Gordon GA Mr Ted Wise, Director, DSN 780-2818…
  • p. 318 …Maj J~sse Marcel, and two Counterintelligence Corps Agents, Capt Sheridan Cavitt and MSgt Lewis Rickett…
  • p. 320 …Liaison Officer to the US Army Signal Corps, with primary duties for securing meteorological equipment from…
  • p. 517 …A modified radiosonde-type aneroid pressure capsule (Signal Corps ML 310-/) has been the basic sensing…
  • p. 519 Corps ML-310/ radiosonde aneroid unit, a metal helix on a rotating cylinder of insulating material…
  • p. 731 …Army Air Corps Stratosphere Flight of 1934 in the Balloon 'Explorer'", Contributed Tec~ical Papers of…
  • p. 761 …4· Richard Hassard, a forEr Signal Corps Officer was hired because ot his general knowledge of…
  • p. 763 …Griffith 11/7/II:> Visking Corp. Chicago, Ill. Mr. Cahn 12/4/11:> Visking Corp. Chicago…
  • p. 764 12/16/46 Celanese Celluloid Corp. 180 }ladison J, venue New York, ~i. i.. 12/17…
  • p. 765 …Smith 1/3/47 Visking Corp. Chicago, Ill. Att: J. L. Lane 1/8/47 Watson…
  • p. 766 …1/21/47 Shellmar·Projects Corp. Mt. Vernon, Ohio 1/21/47 Milprint Inc. Milwaukee, Wise…
  • p. 767 …toPermission withheld. place subcontract with Unexcelled Chern. Corp. for the fabrication of be.lloons. Request th…
  • p. 768 …J • 3/7/47 Plax Corp. Hartford, Conn. Mr. R. E• .Ames Same recuest as letter…
  • p. 769 3/19/47 Unexcelled Chem. Corp. New Brunswick, N.J. Att: 2~r. Tegen 3/';:1…
  • p. 781 …Plastics & Packaging No 1-f.J.lwa.ukee 1, Wisconsin Celanese Plastics Corp. Plastics & Packaging No…
  • p. 783 …As the motor switched modulator ~us already i~ experimental state of manufacture for the Signal Corps…
  • p. 810 …date, talked to Lt Dyer of Signal Corps regarding for tomorrow firing. Chantz and Bill went…
  • p. 811 …Delayed trip to Silver City to talk over Signal Corps Communication with Peoples, Ball this PM…
  • p. 812 …Left Alamogordo about 9 am, Chantz, Porter and myself, 2 Signal Corps men along. Stopped at…
  • p. 908 …As presently designed, the modulator contains a standard Signal Corps ML-310E radiosonde aneroid unit, a…
  • p. 981 …Army Signal Corps, Saipan, in 1944. Photo Courtesy of Mrs. Emily Duffy. Dr. Athelstan F. Spilhaus…
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Jan 30 Thurs, Plotted up angle of azimuth against angle of descent for ··-2 recordings.
Set aside this work for bombing rlins, ',.J'orked on Flight 18 with '.7i vi an. Started Eileen
on calculations uith Aug 8 and 9 data, reworking calculations doe before. C:hecked picks
on Flight 18 - they appear to be sky waves though angle of descent is not regular.
Jan 31 Fri Oakhurst. ~orked with Eileen on Aug 8 calculations. Finished up for both direct
and reflected possibilities. :vent over Flight 19 records. ?ound that all of these are sky
Ha•:es.
feb 1 Sat. Left A.P. for Philly on 940 bus, arrived at ~1arions apt about 1. :\ayne back from
Hork about 5. After dinner we 'Went out to Newtown and stayed overnight.
Feb 2 Sun. Drove up to Sparta NJ with !~arion and Wayne. Saw Dorothy, Joe and family. Nelson
Steenland & family living there with them. Saw >Iorzels pm. Ed Douglas in tonight for few
n:inutes. Joe took me over to Dover & caught 9.58 train, then 1120 out of Penn Station,
~7ewark. Arrived AP about 1230
Feb 3 Mon Oakhurst. Peoples in Washington regarding balloon ascention in June, Made plans
for flight 20 which was made this pm 1)00 to 1320 in conjunction with instruments in blimp.
Route just south of east, no results. ~orked on sky waves from Flights 18-19.
Feb 4-5-6, Tues, Wed, Thurs. Oakhurst. Checked over all sky wave picks on Flights 19 - 19.
Went over Loran data and plotted up to get accurate plane speed, Plotted T - X curve using
these figures. Worked up Oakhurst corrcetions for elevations and replotted all values for
velocity - Flights 18 - 19. Received Gutenberg letter in which he had worked out Aug 8,9
data. Went over this method and worked over thae data again. Unique solution not obtainable.
Went over possible experiments in 'Hellos' balloon ~une with Peoples.
Feb 7 Fri Oakhurst • .-Worked on 23, 24 Jan T-X curves. V files 2),24 Jan forms, started on
NYU data. Eileen worked on least squares-Va , then on Gutenberg's method applied to Aug 9
data.
Feb 8 Sat Oakhurst. Worked on V-2 rocket information 23 Jan. Used meteorological informatior
for 2 explosions. Tried to get V at height of eiplosions but seems too low.
Feb 9 Sun Asbury Park - worked on calculations of flights, setup? and calculations for
rockets.
Feb 10 Y.on Oakhurst. Worked over Alamogordo Radar Hueco stations for 23 Jan 1947 records
and made plot of V-2 rocket D - H using all radar data. 1'1'ent over all equipment to go to
Alamogordo. Made plans for departure Thurs. Set up 8 sec galv in T-9. Vivian checked
velocity from caps with temperatures and continued on Oct 22-23, Flights 12-lJ, Cruises,
NYU data. Eileen in pm - worked on formulas ofc.seismib refraction using straight line for
line - Aug 8 - 9. Finished this and went back to least square solutions of Jan 23 -24 data.
Feb 11 Tues Cakhurst. Flight 21 scheduled for 8 tonight postponed until tomorrow. Worked on
Oct 22 data with sky waves to Highland Lights. Went over all records. Have 2? consecutive
shots to H. L. Oliva left by train tonight for Alamogordo. ~" · · 1 ' t ·.
Feb 12 Wed Oakhurst. Vivian & Eileen worked on temperatures and winds Oct 22 & 23 and worked
up ray paths f9r sky waves to Highland Lights. All equipment for Alamogordo asseabled and
loaded on trucks for Watson Labs this pm. Flight 21 at midnight tonight. McCurdy, Chantz,
Woodruff, Ball, Hom?, Rigny present. Dropped 20 bombs 1200 to 1237. No signals received,
either sky or direct waves.
Feb 13 Thurs. Got special instruments for 1 cycle from McCurdy this ~. Drove up to Newark
in staff car- Chantz & myself. Loaded B-25 this pm but could not get all equiprrent on.-left
5 reels and box of equipment ? • Left Newark about JJO, stopped in r-:iddletown, Pa -
Olmsted Field for 1 1/2 hrs to eat and gas plane, then left and landed at Godman Field out- ,,
side Fort Knox, Louisville, Ky. Stayed at Officers Club tonight.
~eb 14 ~ri Left Louisvilleabout 930 am. Stopped at Tinker Field, Ok City for eats and refuel
then to Alamogordo, Arrived Alamogordo 4)0 pm - contacted Watson Lab and got truck. Unloaded
all equipment from B-25 & took part of it to North hanger. 3-25 cre•r:lt Yosher, Lt Alberts,
Sgt ? Oliva arrived Alamo. by train this ~
Feb 15 Sat. Moved eqpt from north hanger across runway to stowage building. Checked T-21s on
GR ~. Checked galvanometers, etc
?eb 16 Sun Alamogordo.Out to Tower and Dona sites & surveyed in instrument locations - 5 to
be station(ed) in shape. Ran out field wire at Dona station.
Feb 17 Mon Alamogordo. Went out to Tower site and set up Springnether and GRJ equipment.
Rubicon 500 ft from GR3. Took trial recordings on both equipments
Feb 18 Tues Alamogordo. Went out to Dona Site this morning. Set up GR8 then Phil took truck
and went over to GR1 Tower tsite. WACtcornoral shot offtabou~ 215 but with little slipstream.
Recorded at vona out Ph1~ a Tower si e naver saw rocKe • Walted at Dona until 6 pm. Phil hae

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