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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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to return. Receiver at plane did not work at all. Ground receiver worked for a short
time but did not receive explosions. B-17 and most of personnel out to Ros·well - recovered
equipment some 25 mi east of Roswell. Out at 10 this morning, got T1~ and went out to
range. Fired shots 12 to 18 every hour. Last of bombing tests this week.
June 6 Fri. NYU personnel getting ready for flight tomorrow. Conference about noon, Hackman
with radiosonde, Olsen and Godbee with receiver to Roswell - also Smith on theodolite.
Regular equipment in plane.Edmundson and Reynolds to operate equipment at labs - receiver
with GR8. Worked on adopting GR8 this pm and this evening. Fired some shots pm at site #4
but no transmitter for sonobuoy. This pm put McCurdy low frequency amplifier in circuit
before GR8 and have plenty of signal.
Jmne 7 Sat. Balloon flight off about 530. Dribbler? broken on takeoff. Balloon was to
60,000':, broke left balloons then train came down somewhere in mountains. Recordings at
north hanger, and at Roswell but plane did not receive. Shot at 6, 630, 7, 730, 8 and 830
at site #4. Plane out to find balloons but no luck. All NYU personnel and John Aaden off
on B-17 - Lewis, Gallagher. Went over to Alamogordo with Ireland, Minton, Olsen and Mears
but no train today - making reservations for tomorrow.
June 8, Sun. Rancher, Sid West, found balloon train 25 mi south of High Rolls in mountains.
Contacted him and made arragements to recover equipment Monday. Got all recordings of
balloon flights. Took Treland, Mears, Winton, Olsen to Alamogordo to catch train this pm
June 9 Mon. Bill Godbee and Don Reynolds went out to Sid West's ranch south of High Rolls
and broughtback recovered balloons- clock, 2 radiosondes, sonobuoy and microphone and lower
part of dribbler. Bill Edmondson cleaning up hanger and sorting out equipment of NYU. Worked
today on balloon records (GR8) from north hanger. No definite signals obtained. Took inv-
entory MRs.
June 10 Tues. Bill G , Bill E and Don worked on equipment, repairing GR8, T21 mikes, etc.
Getting ready for rocket Thursday. Worked on GR8 recordings from Hagerman, Tests 3,4,5,6.
No signals obtained. Worked on balloon tests from Roswell - no signals. V on Gila R tests
3,4,5,6, Eileen on V2 amplitudes.
June 11 Wed. Bill Godbee and I went out to Tulerasa Range and located Site ~5 for bombing,
24 mi N of Site #3 - roads bad. Laid ~ut wire for shooting, Don and Bill E getting ready
for rocket. Checked Rubicon records, all 3 sites.
June 12 Thurs. All rockets postponed Until July 3 rocket of S.C.E.L. Bill E, Don, Bill G
went down to El Paso and then SE along Rio Grande. LocatedLlistenine site south of Clint,
Texas and layed out wires and dug holes. Worked on bombing flights from Oakhurst.
June 13 Fri. Men off today. '.' worked on tests 3,4,5,6 Tularosa bombing. E orr.V-2 rocket
amplitudes. I plotted T-X all sky waves and started reviewing March 11 and 17 records.
June 14 Sat. BillE and family, Don Rand family, V, E and I to Carlsbad.
June 15 Sun. Through Carlsbad Caverns and back to Alamogordo.
June 16 Mon. Men off today. Worked on eastern shore cruises, plotting T-X corrected to 68
kms & worked on apparent velocit~es and differences in azimuth.
June 17 Tues. Men left for Silver City and Febrero? near El Paso for bombing tests. Worked
on Cruises.
June 18 Wed. Test 7 of Tularosa Bombing Program, Shots at 7, 930 and 12)0. Men called in
from field to aheck clocks. Weather poor - raining at all sites. E on V2 rockets, V Cruises.
June 19 Thurs. Test 8 of Tularosa bombing program, shots at 1600, 1830, 2100 , 2400.
'lleather poor - rainy at Alamogordo.
June 20 Fri Finish of Test 8. Shots at 0000 and 02)0, Sites 1,3,5. Men back today. Godbee,
Reynolds at Silver City got all shots, Edmondson at El Paso @ot 1 possibly 2. Looked over
all Fabens records today. Eon weather data, rocket firings,V on Tests 3,4,7 and Flights.
June 21 Sat Worked on GR8 records from Fabens - calculated azimuth and elevation angles -
Fabens recordings and some of Silver City.
June 22 Sun. On trip with V & E - San Cruzes, Hot Springs, Carizzo
Week of Jan 23-28 Alamogordo Air Base. Men worked on~equipment for sound ranging Monday
and made arrangements for off base transportation, had to get some from Base Motor Pool;
Bill G, Don R left am for Gila Valley and Bill E went to Fabens. Tests 9, 10 Wednesday 25
and Thurs, Fri 26-27. Test 9: 7-10-13-16-18 Sites 1-3-5-)-1. Wen~ out with Sgt Rand.
Contacted by telephone Wed night and Thursday. Shot 10 Thurs, Fri at 18-21-00-03-05. Out
with Sgt Rand again. Men in Fri pm. Good results from west, but poor or nothing from Fabers.
Looked over some of Fabens records Sat. V worked on Tests 7-8 getting all data, including
amplitudes, then worked on Flights 1-27. Got met data for all flights up to 18 kms except
Oct ones. Found one whole minute error in timing on 24A flight which now checks with others

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