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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. 129 …6099 2 HQ AMC WRIGHT PAT 342-seA-6191 CAMBRIDGE LABS 342-A~ AMC HQ WRIGHT…
  • p. 228 …overhead and followed the balloons out to sea. I have no idea about the results that…
  • p. 235 …the regular 334 that we had at sea level. From that they could deduce the temperature…
  • p. 279 …actually located on the jurisdictional lines between Sea Girt and Springlake, New Jersey. It was an…
  • p. 280 …The Sea Girt Inn? A: Exactly. That's where John had his office, and I was…
  • p. 400 …alone 1a about 24,000.m1lea at sea level, aDd about '500 allea at 45,000…
  • p. 407 …five (25) feet at their ls.rgest sea-level diameter. The sonic unit was a combination…
  • p. 466 …hour when one-fifth inf~ated at sea level). One other type of balloon which has…
  • p. 490 …Let us, then, compare the rate of leakage at any given altitude with leakage at sea…
  • p. 492 …The leakage at any altitude may be expressed as a function of leakage at sea level…
  • p. 493 Comparing rete of leakage at 40,000 feet with leakage at sea level: ~ 188 .u§. - 0…
  • p. 495 …It a 20-foot diameter balloon~ full were tested at 10 sea level and found to…
  • p. 496 …At sea level this is equivalent to 5.32 ~r. for a 20-foot diameter balloon…
  • p. 502 …Using the rules of subsonic aerodynamics, Picard suggests that air at sea level escaping at 1333…
  • p. 503 …sea level (psi) escape velocity of air to produce back pressure of 1 atmosphere at sea…
  • p. 520 …to about 20 millibars and increased to sea-level pressure at different temperatures. The most comprehensive…
  • p. 654 …The height above mean sea level as determined fram pressure measurements used in this work with…
  • p. 686 …to a thtmble a.nd attached to re1n forced pCltches at alterna.te .sea.m.s…
  • p. 688 …lQr9e Ba.lloo n ~hould trQin de .sea nd to 101000'. 6 each.-Gene ral M1lls…
  • p. 736 …point at which the radiosonde reaches the sea surface. 2. Earlier attempts There have been numerous…
  • p. 737 …The balloons floated between the surface and 30,000 ft above sea level; those which reached…
  • p. 801 …Vet Gifford ;.;ho has 0 0' sea rescue boat this project is planning to use. Stayed…
  • p. 816 …Worzel working on gravity at sea. Saw Geo Woollard and the Ryders. Woollard after Guggenheim fellowship…
  • p. 887 …the launching site is markedly different from sea level, a shift in this curve is needed…
  • p. 925 …balloon at all times with respect to sea level. On this curve also it is customary…
  • p. 933 …The height above ~ean sea level as determined from pressure measurements used in this work with…
SC: Yes, I guess you could say that. I was the only commissioned officer. I had two enJisted
agents "working for me" quote end quote.
RW: Who were the enlisted agents that worked for you?
SC: The senior was a Master Sergeant by the name of Rickett and the young agent, Jack
Williams. I later had some other people working for me after CIC deceased and OSI took over
for the Air Force... the investigative agency.
RW: That actually came, I think, in September when the Air Force first stated. You were one of
the charter members of OS I, as I understand?
SC: Yeah, over from CIC and OSI; and then I went to OSI school later.
RW: You reported through your chain of command? You didn't report to General Blanchard,
the Base Commander? You reported like we did in OSI through the separate chain of command,
as I understand it; is that right?
SC: Yeah, our parent organization was 700 CIC and I believe that there ... they had sort of a
branch up in Colorado at that time, but I think most of our work was sent directly back to Bolling
at that time. I am a little fuzzy on that because I wasn't in the organization very long, you know.
RW: OK. General Blanchard was the Base Commander and everyone else in the S09th basically
reported to him then?
SC: Oh yeah. Colonel Blanchard.
RW: Oh yeah. Excuse me, Colonel Blanchard.
SC: He was the Wmg Commander of the 509th, right. I didn't report to anybody on the base.
RW: Just like in OSI?
SC: Yeah, I associated and coordinated stuff with Marcel and I had no responsibility to
Blanchard or Marcel.
RW: Do you recall an incident that happened during the early part of July when you were asked
to accompany Major Marcel to go recover some wreckage of anything?
SC: Well, there again I couldn't swear to the dates, but in that time, which must have been July,
we heard that someone had found some debris out not too tar &om RosweU and it looked
suspicious; it was unidentified. So, I went out and I do DOt recall whether Marcel went with
Rickett and me; I bad Rickett with me. We went out to tbis site. There were no, as I understand,
check points or anything like that (going through guards and that sort of garbage) we went out
there and we found it. It wu a small amount o( u I recall, bamboo sticks, reflective sort of

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