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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. 12 …Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July 9, 1947 17. Satement, Lt. Col. Sheridan…
  • p. 13 …Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July 9, 1947 2. Organizational Chart, Watson Laboratories…
  • p. 30 …These locations include Fort Worth, Texas, the home of the Eighth Air Force Headquarters; possibly Sandia…
  • p. 34 …DC; Federal Records Center, Ft Worth, TX; the INSCOM Archives, Fort Meade, MD; National Air and…
  • p. 38 …in the famous photos (Atch 16) in Fort Worth was that of a radar target normally…
  • p. 39 …were told was a flying saucer to Fort Worth. The people on board included ... and Maj…
  • p. 40 …Newton was a weather officer assigned to Fort Worth, who was on duty when the Roswell…
  • p. 45 …photographs taken at the time by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, that depicted Ramey and Marcel…
  • p. 46 …the wreckage prior to its getting to Fort Worth. This organization reported on July 20, 1994…
  • p. 51 …After the autopsies, conspiracy theorists said the bodies were flown to Fort Worth and then to…
  • p. 75 …Some of the debris was flown to Fort Worth, ..as where the Commander of the Eighth…
  • p. 101 …Center (WNRq or the Southwest Regional Depository (Fort Worth, Texas). Recommendations Because the records management policy…
  • p. 151 16 Fort Worth Star-Telegram Photographs of Balloon Debris July 9, 1947
  • p. 159 …taken to Eighth AU- Force Headquarters in Fort Worth where it was subsequently identified as a…
  • p. 167 …Marcel took it to Fort Worth. Yeah that's the ... RW: ·Yeah. That doesn't look…
  • p. 168 …into Wright-Pat and Kirtland, or to Fort Worth. Back and forth, loaded up, with very…
  • p. 174 …Then it said: "After Marcel had gone to Fort Worth and came back Marcel challenged the…
  • p. 176 …O.K."Marcel would take some ofthe sample to Fort Worth to show Ramey. In the…
  • p. 179 normal course of his duty was sent to Washington not 8th Air Force in Fort Worth…
  • p. 254 …But the Roswell morning paper clearly showed that there was a knowledgeable person in Fort Worth…
  • p. 266 …Headquarters by a news photographer of the Fort Worth Star Telegram. It's four pictures that…
  • p. 309 …I was the only weather forecaster on duty in the Fort Worth base weather and flight…
  • p. 318 …flown to Eighth Air Force Headquarters at Fort Worth AAF, TX, for his personal inspection. Upon…
  • p. 326 …Before the announcement was made, the "disc" was flown to Fort Worth AAF, at the direction…
  • p. 327 …giant thermos jug" was allegedly transported from Fort Worth AAF to Wright Field. 38 This description…
  • p. 329 designs on it."41 Furthermore, the Fort Worth Army Airfield Weather Officer, Irving Newton, who was…
  • p. 333 Fort Worth Star-Telegram Photographs of Balloon Debris July 9, 1947 1
  • p. 640 …Similarly, the Fort Worth Sub-Committee established a procedure for flights made within the Fort V1orth…
  • p. 707 …Air Coordinating Committee, Fort Worth Regional Airspace Subcommittee. Subject: Obstructions to ·air navigation ••••.•••••••••••••••••••••••••• 43 Memorandum from…
  • p. 713 …Secretary a SUBJECT AIR COORDINATING COMMITTEE FORT WORTH REGIONAL AIRSPACE SUBCOMMITTEE P. O. BOX 1689 FORT…
  • p. 715 …BOX 1689 FORT WORm 1_ mxAS September 2, 1947 C1-tairman, Ft. Worth Regional Airspace Subcommittee…
  • p. 812 …Arrived in Fort Worth about 9 EDST. Off again to Big Springs, Texas, where forced to…
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7. Memo, Brig Gen James L. Cole, Jr., AF/SE, for SAF/AAZ, subj: GAO Review
on Records Management Procedures with Weather Balloons, Unidentified
Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents ... , March 14, 1994
8. Memo, Col Michael W. Schoenfeld, SAF/AQL, for SAF/AA, subj: GAO
Review on Records Management Procedures Dealing with Weather
Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents ... , March 22,
1994
9. Memo, Col Steve 0. Ouzts, AF!X.OWP, for SAF/AAZ, subj: GAO Review on
Records Management Procedures Dealing with Weather Balloons,
Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents ... , March 9, 1994
10. Memo, Grace T. Rowe, SAF/AAIQ, for SAF/AAI, SAF/AAZ, subj: GAO
Review of Records Management Procedures Dealing with Weather
Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents ... , March 10,
1994
11. Memo with Attachment, Richard S. Rauschkolb, AFHRA/CC, for AF/HO,
SAFIAAZ, subj: GAO Review on Records Management Procedures
Dealing· with Weather Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash
Incidents ... , March 8, 1994
12. Memo, with Attachments, Edward C. Mishler, HQ AFOSIIHO, for SAF/AAZ,
subj: GAO Review on Records Management Procedures ... , May 11,
1994
13. Records Searched
14. Letter, Lt Col Thomas Badger, Jr., HQ/AAF, to Commanding General, AMC,
subj: Issuance of Orders, June 5, 1947
15. Appointment Book and Diary, Lt Gen Hoyt S. Vandenberg, July 7-9, [1947],
and July 5-9, 1947
16. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, [July 9, 1947]
17. Satement, Lt. Col. Sheridan D. Cavitt, USAF (Ret), May 24, 1994
18. Interview, Col Richard L. Weaver with Lt Col Sheridan D. Cavitt, USAF (Ret),
[May 24, 1994]
19. Letters, Brig GenE. O'Donnell to Commanding General AAF, July 8, 1946; Lt
Col W.H. Congdon and Col D.P. Graul to Commanding General AMC,
September 9, 1947; and Brig Gen Tom C. Rives to Commanding General
AAF, September 10, 1947
20. Statement, Athelstan F. Spilhaus, June 3, 1994
21. Statement, Charles B. Moore, June 8, 1994, and Hieroglyphic and Balloon
Train Drawings, August 28, 1992
22. Statement, Albert C. Trakowski, June 29, 1994
23. Interview, Col Jeffrey Butler and 1st Lt James McAndrew with Professor
Charles B. Moore, June 8, 1994
24. Interview, [Col Jeffrey Butler and 1st Lt James McAndrew with] Col Albert C.
Trakowski, USAF (Ret), June 29, 1994
25. Drawing, NYU Cluster Flight No. 2

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