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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…
SC: Yeah, I think they would have asked me, "Cav, what did you see" ... right.
RW: Did Rickett ever talk to you about this again?
SC: No .. .I don't think so. I don't think so. Right about that time just before OSI was formed and
we all were absorbed into OSI. I think he went on a special undercover job up to ... maybe
somewhere to an Air Force Base up here in Washington.
MC: Fort Lewis, I think he ...
SC: Was it Lewis or McChord? I don't remember. Anyway, he went on to an undercover
assignment, and that's what I said about CIC doing some crazy things. They didn't even tell me. I
was his boss locally and they didn't even tell me that he had gone up. He use to be a mechanic at
one time, Rick did, in the Air Force; the Air Corps. I think they wanted to ... they were having
some trouble with their planes being what they thought were sabotaged and they asked him to go
up there and try out the machine... like an airplane mechanic, which he could do pretty good.
Outside ofthat, I don't know of anything that Rick did.
RW: One ofthe things that was mentioned in this book... and I don't know how much you read it,
is that Rickett some time later that Fall apparently went with a scientist by the name of Doctor
LaPaz, and he accompanied him and they went around to various places. Dr. LaPaz was a weD
known person...
SC: I knew of him. I never met LaPaz personally, but I knew what he was.
RW: Did Rickett go with him that you recall; accompany him around?
SC: He could have, but it certainly didn't stick to my mind. It wouldn't be for any extended time
I don't think, because we needed him around the office.
MC: The Ricketts were friends of ours too; and his wife and I. I don't remember Mack ever
saying anything.
SC: Mack was his wife.
MC: ... that he was gone for a long time.
SC: He could have, but Rickett would go off the deep end eve:ry once in a while. He was a
fantastic story teller. He worked for an insane asylum up in the Washington DC area. I think his
wife worked there, also. He would sit around and tell some of the most hilarious, ridiculous
stories about things that happened in this nut house, so to speak.
RW: Was that St. Elizabeth's? That's the big government mental institution.

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