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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. 29 …Since 1978-1980, other UFO researchers, most notably Donald Schmitt and Kevin Randle, claim to have…
  • p. 31 …Randle and Donald Schmitt; The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell (1994), also by Randle…
  • p. 159 …I have reviewed the pictures in the 1991 Book by Randle and Schmitt on the UFO…
  • p. 168 …It had been alleged in a number ofbooks, including the one by Randle and Schmitt, that…
  • p. 170 …I went through and pulled out wherever, in this book UFO Crash at Roswell by Randle…
  • p. 171 …From the very start, when these clowns started hounding me, Randle and Schmitt, I told they…
  • p. 176 …He makes a number of claims that, at least Randle and Schmitt; and when I say…
  • p. 178 …risk injury to civiliaDs on the ground. Randle asked if he remembered my talk at aD…
  • p. 190 …Well, of course, Randle and Schmitt do claim that those people are out there and that…
  • p. 191 …Well, I got a perfect example of this with Randle and Schmitt. Randle is the outgoing…
  • p. 205 …On review of the photos in the Randle/Schmitt book, the material looks like one of…
Summary and Conclusions
The Historical Research Agency is primarily a repository for unit histories and
supporting documents, and it has never routinely received the kind of records which
might provide details of the Roswell incident H such records survive today, they will
undoubtedly be held by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA),
either at the Washington National Records Center (WNRq or the Southwest Regional
Depository (Fort Worth, Texas).
Recommendations
Because the records management policy of the federal government requires that obsolete
office files be retired to the NAAA the WNRC and the NARA Southwest Regional
Depository might be searched for files related to the Roswell incident
AFHRA microfilm roll33,764 indicates that the Fourth Air Force and its A-2 intelligence
section apparently carried out investigations of flying disks in the western US in 1947.
Research in the NARA, therefore, might reasonably include a search for surviving HQ
Fourth AF and Fourth AF A-2 Section files in the NARA.
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YAMES H. KITCHENS, m, PhD
Archivist
Inquiries Branch
Appendix
1. 509 BG History, Jun/Jul47
2 Extract from "Flying Disks 1947'' W I0
3. Bailon Operations at AFMDC, 1947-1950, pp 1-2
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RICHARD S. RAUSCHI<OLB
Colonel, USAF
Commander

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