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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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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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