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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. 19 …MOGUL; their job was to deliver nuclear weapons, not to detect them. The unusual combination of…
  • p. 36 …happened near Roswell may have involved nuclear weapons. This was a logical area of concern since…
  • p. 41 …to determine the state of Soviet nuclear weapons research. This was the early Cold War period…
  • p. 183 …that time where we either dropped a weapon or did something stupid, which we had to…
  • p. 201 …long range balloons; although not effective as weapons, they did initiate the long-range balloon research…
  • p. 213 …Charles Ziegler was working on the history of nuclear weapons detection capability. He had some letters…
  • p. 249 …Out PM with several NYU men by weapons carrier, but we never located it. Rocket postponed…
  • p. 251 …so I took a weapons carrier and drove up there. We were aggressively trying to recover…
  • p. 253 …We drove up in a weapons carrier to the Roswell Army Air Field, and tried to…
  • p. 264 …We civilians were driving weapons carriers to carry helium around, and to go into town to…
  • p. 273 …a book on the history of nuclear weapons detection. It figured, of course, that Project MOGUL…
  • p. 274 …I had considerable background in nuclear weapons detection, using devices that I had developed in the…
  • p. 326 …in the :world capable of delivering nuclear weapons. It now appears that the debris from MOGUL…
  • p. 401 …a.~tack:; -;;it"t st.~c!"et weapons. ' The moat prom1a1ne. .eJ"PC'• oi: li6tening etatlon…
  • p. 804 …Dec 13 Fri.Woody and I left Alamogordo Air Base in weapon carrier and scouted out…
  • p. 805 …went in borrowed weapon carrier. '.:oody and Jeff 7owler took other weapon carrier ::1~d collected…
  • p. 808 …Phil and Sal went out to Dona and Launching Sites with weapon carrier. Hoffman, DeTurk and…
  • p. 812 …May 19 Mon Reynolds and I left about 0745 in weapon carrier for Silver City. Arrived…
  • p. 813 …Edmondson and I left about 0845 in weapon carrier for Roswell. Arrived at Hagerman about 12…
  • p. 815 …Out pm with several NYU by weapon carrier but we never located it. Rocket postponed until…
1947 13
April 1 rocket plotting H-SS, H-T, SS-T.
July 8(Tues) Alamogordo. C-54 off about 1030 with 23 people - all NYU, \-IL including .', E,
Godbee. lt Thompson, Edmondson, Reynolds and myself left. Wote up report on East Coast
Flights for Peoples.
July 9( Wed) Alamogordo. Worked today on balloon flights. Studied \•TL records of them briefly
and wrote a memorandum to Peoples about results. Left in car this P~ late. Flat tire between
Roswell and Tularosa and stayed there.
July 10 Thurs. Changed tire and went into Roswell. Bought new tire. On to El Reno, Okla
today. Stopped in cafe in Hereford, Texas and met Dannie Harns from UGC. Went up to office
and saw Bob Cowder?, PC and Gene Conant, supervisor.
July 11 Fri. From ElRosa to Cherokee. Got note at Cherokee that Jimmie was at Tonkawa and
went over there. Stayed~tonight with J & family.
July 12 Sat. Jim, Pat , Vanessa along with me on aay home. Got to Doolittle, Ark tonight.
July 1a Sun. to cabins in Ohio just out of Springfield.
July 1 Mon. To cabins near Geneva, N.Y.
July 15 Tues. Stopped at Syracuse. Got home about 230. Marion & her baby there.
July 16, 17, 18 At home. Drew in 4 or 5 loads of hay but land very wet and rains inter-
mittently.
July 19 Sat. Marion and I left in Chrysler for Woods Hole to see Dorothy & family. Through
Albany, Springfield, Providence. 463 miles 12 hours. Doc Ewing on Atlantic cruise. Worzel
working on gravity at sea. Saw Geo Woollard and the Ryders. Woollard after Guggenheim
fellowship for next year - positions at WHOI and Princeton are ? very satisfactory.
Jul~ 20 Sun. Saw men working with Worzel at WHOI, Pollak, went over to Vine's new house, saw
Kit and Bump at their house, then out to Ewings, saw Midge & children, Anne •. and Mikey.
July 21 ~:on. '1fent down to WHOl.,; .l'lawcPollak, Bumpus, Worthington. Up Jrd floor and saw Emmons
of NYU, who is finishing up some research work there under Ray Montgomery. Talked with Col-
umbus Iselin for short time. Saw Gil Oakley. Harion & I left about 11 am. ~vent through
Providence, Hartford. Crossed river at Hudson. Met rain last part of trip, not home until
130. Jim & family spent weekend with Steve and Esther in Syracuse.
July 22,23,24 At home. Drew in a little more hay from lot in front of barn but still rain-
ing quite often. Jimmie & family took Thursday PM train to Syracuse to catch tomorrow's
plane to Wichita, Kansas.
July 25, 26,27 At home. Steve and Esther came up Sat night. Marion and I went to Watertown
to pick them up at bus station at midnight. They left again Sun pm on bus from Canton. Chas
Crary up from Canton Sunday PM
July 28,29,30,31,Aug 1. At home. Chrysle to Canton, change plugs, reline wheels - Rained
hard first part of week then clear. Got in lots in back of barn, north of road and front of
house.
Aug 2 Sat. Marion - Bunny and I left 1230 PM, arrived Marcellus about 5 PM. Ate dinner with
Steve and Esther, left Marcellus 730 PM. Through Bingham~on, Scranton, Stroudsburg, Easton.
Arrived in Newtown about 245 am.
Aug 3 Sun. In Newton with Flaggs for dinner. Left Newtown about 5 PM. Arrived Jersey Coast.
Got room on Hwy 35 near White Bite Shop.
Aug 4 Mon. Up to Oakhurst. Went over developments to date with Jim Peoples. Out to lunch with
Lt Ball. This PM Chantz and I surveyed to Sonobuoy site.
Aug 5 Tues. Oakhurst. Worked on Aberdeen results - 2 failures - 1 direct wave. - Worked on
Bermuda run# 2 -Oakhurst and started Bermuda #2 C.M.C.H., Peoples on vacation starting
today.
Aug 6, 7, 8 W•ed, Thurs, Fri. Oakhurst. Worked on Cruises 1 -28 with Vivian and Epstein.
Checked over all recordings of Bermuda #2, .. )<'lig'ht 32. Got sonobuoy survey calculated and
worked up results of Flight 25 B which depended on sonobuoy signal. Started Epstein on wea-
ther data which Wiggett is working on. Wrote letter to Emmons with remaining work to be
done there. Conference Wed pm with Clowry, Carroll, Dubell, Bernhoff of Olmsted regarding
Bermuda and Alamogordo plans. Mr Mears put up balloons with equipmen~ on here at Oakhurst.
Reynolds and Edmondson in and working around lab. Worked some with Eileen on rockets.
Aug 9,10 Asbury Park
Aug 11, 12,13,14,15,16 Oakhurst. Wrote memo regarding Alaskan work and had copies typed up.
Worked most of week on rockets. Plotted altitude against time of origin for April 1, 8
rockets but did not get identical graphs. Tried to vary distance to obtain similiar curves
but this was not possible. Made plots of time vs SS and altitude vs SS in effort to corr-
elate signals ·between stations. Correlated fairly good on 1 April but poor on 8 April.

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