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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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~·a.rcr 9 c:un. Left Olmsted 0934 am - c47, Manjak and Schneider and landed at Newark 1130
~hompson and I took train to Asbury Park from Pa station. In Asbury Park 3 pm
March 10 Mon Oakhurst. Vivian and I worked on Flight 25, Parts 1 and 2. Started Eileen
on V-2 rocket ~ecordings.
~arch 11 Tues Oakhurst. Vivian and I worked on Flights 25, 24. Flight 26 off today, Part
1 at 9, part 2 at 2 pm. Good results! Eileen on V2 rocket March 7, Dona Site.
March 12 Wed Oakhurst. Vivian and I worked on records - Flight 26, and started Flight 23.
Eileen worked on Dona site , V-2. Thompson and I went over Alamogordo plans.
March 1J lhurs Oakhurst. Worked with Vivian some on Flight 23 and 22. Worked on Tularosa
site of V2 - 7 March. Eileen worked on Launching Site, V-2. Flight 27 today - at 12 noon
and at 4 pm. Probably last of flights.
March 14 Fri Oakhurst. Vivian worked on identification of returns, last~~=5 cruises. gave
good sky waves. Trakowski, Peoples and myselfwrote up report for General Reves on overall
program to be hand carried by Thompson to Washington. Eileen worked on V-2 records, #21
March 15 Sat Oakhurst. Worked up survey of Launching .irea and Tuleroso sites lc plotted all
sites on air map. Worked on V2 rocket March 7 records.
March 16 Sun Oakhurst. Worked· on fon~ula for amnnd correction un.:t.il 2 p11 - went over to
McCurdys tonight.
March 17 Mon Oakhurst. Vivian plotted up all last sky waves. Worked on eqpt list for Alamo-
gordo. Worked on formulas for wind correction. , , ,
March 18 Tues Oakhurst. Worked with V. Checked through all March 13 records.,. Worked on
Woods Hole recordings pm. Eileen working on V-2 rockets.
March 19 Wed Oakhurst. Reviewed Flight 24A trying to get, some azimuths .from Oakhurst but
records very poor. Reviewed records of ·Jan 2Jrd and started on stratosphere calculations.
Eileen working on corrections Jan 20 V2 rocket from meteorological data. Baten? in from
Florida Field Station, ready to go to Alamogordo next Tuesday.
March20 Thursday, Oakhurst. Went over final calculations for stratosphere data using
seiSJiic methods, of Jan 23 data with Vivian. Got V=J25 at 3 kms. Studied azimuths on that
data and got w = 10 m/sec coming from south on June 2Jrd. Worked with Eileen on rocket
Jan 20thcorrecting for met data and plotting final H against X in kms from surface for
up data.
March 21 Friday Oakhurst. Worked on Alamogordo plans - Lewis & Clowry over this pm and we
went over all future plans including bombing for Alamogordo. Worked on rocket data with
Eileen and on flight data with Y, S,1-4tpanoff on ray paths of Dec 13
March 22 Saturday Oakhurst. Went over all V2 rocket data. Studied azimuth - elevation
graphs & studied WAC Corporal of 3 March. Caught 534 train from Asbury Park - 1045
sleeper out of NYC
Marcb 21 Sunday. At boae. Arrived Cant.on abo~'!ow9. lo@;t'~1 .qn sleep~::r, tonight &bpltt 8 pm
March 24 Monday. Arrived NYC about 7. At 0930 went up J.o Math DQ&rtment at NYU - Washington
Square. Met Mr Bennett of WL. Found that Dr. Courant would not be in until late and decided
not to wait but caught 104o train to Asbury Park. Went over shipment ready for Alamogordo
and over work for Vivian and Eileen. Packing tonight.
March 25 Tuesday Truck at Oakhurst at 9 with scales - all equipment weighed - about 3500#
total including TORRID. Edmonton, Reynolds, Thompson, Porter, Godbie? and I left about 10
and went through to Mitchell Field in staff car. B-17, Carroll, pilot -- co-pilot. Left
Mitchel Field about 3 pm. High level winds - went southern route - stayed at Maxwell Field
Alabama tonight. Thompson stayed behind waiting for B-45
March 26 Wednesday, Left Maxwell Field, AlL.labout 9 and landed in Alamorgoro J pm
March 27 Thursday Alamogordo. Phil, Beynilds and I went out to Tower site, took in all wires,
Pulled down tent and Rubicon equipment and took it over to new site west of Lake Lucero.
Strung out wire, surveyed in site & set up Rubicon tent. Sal, Edmonson, Godbie?, Porter
weighing in equipment in Alamogordo air base.
March 28 Friday. Alamogordo. Went out with Godlers, Porter to White Sands west of air base.
Located site and surveyed it, put up shelter and set up GR). Phil and Reynolds went up tp
Tularosa site, Sal and Edmondson worked on GR8 and low frequency equipment, Thompson in
with B-45 from Newark.
March 29 Sat Alamogordo
March 10 Sun Alamogordo. Phil and I went out to Dona site and picked up some equipment and
then out to Lucero site. Set up Rubicon and took a record. Tried to get through to Tularosa
site west of White Sands but couldnt find road.

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