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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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April 17 Thurs. V2 firing #24_ $Cheduled for 11 am. Chantz - Porter at Tulerosa Range;
Reynolds - 'l!oodruff at East White Sands, Woodruff with low frequency equipment for 1
trace GR3;0li·/a- Kabassa?, radio operator on E-29 at Dona Site, Bill :Sdmonston arrived
by car from Florida about 11 and went out to Dona -- 8aptain Lewis and myself at Launching
Area site. V-2 postponed from 11 to 1610. 9 explesives supposed to go off, SCEL, only 1
worked. Tularosa site - had bad instruments - had 3 working but in line; East White Sands
- one short roll, then paper jammed; Dona Site OK; Launching Area site - OK for first 2
rolls, paper jammed on third roll. McCurdy set up low frequency in hanger, north side, and
on Rubicon drum but recordings questionable - as SCEL radio transmitter interfered.
April 18 Fri. B-29 took off for Middletown and Newark about 730 from Alamogordo with all
personnel that came down with it. Wrote Peoples a letter regarding split-up of equipment
so that bombing runs could be continued on East Coast. Plans are to have Edmonston, Rey-
nolds here with 2 sets and take Oliva, Chantz w 2 sites for the East. Set up equipments -
Sprengnether & L&N galvanometers for Helgoland experiment & run equipment 1030 to J Pm,
Checked over all recordings. Oliva and Reynolds out to Dona and brought in all equipment
except wire.
April 19 Sat. Into El Paso with Bill E this am. Got reservations to Houston next weekend.
April 20 Sun. Worked on plans for bombing runs and V2 monitoring.
April 21 Mon. Alamogordo Air Base. Bill Edmonston and I went out to Tularosa Range and
checked 2 bombing targets, and located third bombing site 7-8 miles west of A1, near alkali
flats. Chantz and Porter worked on calculations '!2 -#24. Sal worked on equipment. Don
off today.
April 22 Tues. Alamogordo. Reynolds - Oliva out to East White Sands. Brought GRJ there in
for overhaul. Worked up calibration of GR 8. Got curves for settings of 8 and for changes
in attenuation. Talked to St. James, Ordnance Supply, re 500# bombs. Wire from Peoples -
Godbee ready to come back - plane ready to come down this week. Sent return wire to hold
plane off until after 1 May.
April 23 Wed. Alamogordo. Bill E. and I left Air Base at 0930 and drove to Roswell. Scouted
out area between Roswell and Denali? but all irrigated farm lands. Finally back with find-
ing suitable site, 129 miles from Air Base to Roswell. Chantz went Tularosa range GRJ back,
Oliva and Reynolds checking GR3 in base, Datn?on calculations April 1 rocket
April 24 Thurs. Phil and Ace working on V-2 recordings April 1 and 8 getting and
amplitudes. Sal and Don on GRJ, Bill E. on clock checks. Saw Pritchard about Roswell trips,
bombing. Saw Post Engineers and Major Mitchell.
April 25 Fri. Sal and I went to Motor Pool and got our driving licenses. Worked up sunshots
for Tower and Dona sites, OK within 10 minutes. Bill E and Phil got timbers from scrap pile
and went out on Tularosa Bombing Range to build shelters. Sal and Don working on GRJ. Left
Air Base 130 and left Alamogordo 3 pm. Got room in El Paso at Hotel McCoy.
April 26 Sat. Left El Paso on Continental Air Lines about 0930, went by way of Hobbs, Mid-
land, Odessa, San Angelo to San Antonio. Waited there about 2 hrs and caught Eastern Air
Lines out to Houston. Got in about 0630, tnok bus to Houston and taxi to see Donnie.
April 27 Sun. Houston with Donnie and family
April 28 Mon._Down to Sohio Geophysical office with Donnie and Roy Bennett. Went up to
Abbott and Stansell about a car. Caught bus out to airfield 1020 and caught Eastern Air
Lines to San Antonio, and Continental Air Lines to El Paso. Arrived El Paso 730 and caught
train to Alamogordo, then bus to Air Base. Chantz, Oliva and Bill E. checked over L&Ns,
got driving licenses and worked on calibration curves.
April 29 Tues. Alamogordo Air Base. Delayed trip to Silver City to talk over Signal Corps
Communication with Peoples, Ball this PM. Went out with Don to East White Sands to set up
GR3 and get it working. Lt Thompson in pm. Lt Stevens in on vacation trip. Sal and Bill E
got low frequency equipment together and ran test with it at hanger. Possibility rocket
will not be fired until Monday acct weather
April 30 Wed. Alamogordo. Phil and Don out to East White Sands and Tularose sites to get
equipment ready for test tomorrow. Set up Rubicon at Tularosa. Sal and Bill E. went to Dona
and Launching Area sites to set up equipment. All mikes got out ready for firing.
May 1 Thurs. Out at 2 am. Put up equipment for low frequency run at the north hanger. Out
to stations in field - Thompson with Phil at Tularosa - Don and Ace to East White Sands,
Sal and Bill E. to Dona and I went to Launching Area site. Rocket misfired at 050009 and
all equipment of Signal Corps 'explosions' lost. Picked up equipment from Dona, Launching
Area and East White Sands this pm. C-47 in this pm: Dubell, Mosher and Duff. Duff brought
in 2 100# bombs with some TNT charges. Bill Godbee in from R.B.

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