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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 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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