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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. 15 …Gen Roger M. Ramey Col William H. Blanchard Maj Gen Clements McMullen Brig Gen Donald N…
  • p. 36 …Additionally, this history showed that the 509th Commander, Colonel Blanchard, went on leave on July 8…
  • p. 37 the supposed first ever recovery of extraterrestrial materials. (Detractors claim Blanchard did this as a ploy…
  • p. 46 …Additionally, it seems that there was overreaction by Colonel Blanchard and Major Marcel in originally reporting…
  • p. 75 …William Blanchard. the Public Information Officer, Walter G. Haut, issued a news release that the Amry…
  • p. 104 …e July 1947. Colo·nel i1. H. Blanchard, ; y ::o!'!lr.'a.od.ing Of.f…
  • p. 105 …Colonel Oliver LaFarge, Air Reserve Corps, at Santa Fe, made atrangernents for Colonel Blanchard to visit…
  • p. 106 …Colonel Blanchard spoke on the fu"':ure of the Air Force, and the talk was very…
  • p. 164 …Colonel Blanchard. RW: Oh yeah. Excuse me, Colonel Blanchard. SC: He was the Wmg Commander of…
  • p. 167 …The first picture is actually with Jesse Marcel and that's General Blanchard and ... SC: I…
  • p. 172 …Colonel Wdliam Blanchard and the other officer suggested that Marcel and CIC agent accompanied Brazel to…
  • p. 174 …O.K. "Blanchard, who was still at the base... ordered Marcel to accompany the rancher back…
  • p. 176 …Albuquerque rather than Fort Worth and although Blanchard outranked the CIC agent (meaning yourself) a phone…
  • p. 183 …time and we don't know if Blanchard knew about that or not: (we don't…
  • p. 184 …crash at the request of Marcel; maybe Blanchard, and I probably took Rickett with me. We…
  • p. 189 …The things that Ramey and Blanchard used to! Blanchard came over to the Philippines. I think…
  • p. 254 …What about then Colonel Blanchard and General Ramey? Do you think they may have had any…
  • p. 964 …CU'l'IVE CALEJ\'D!Ul. -3 September 1947 - ColoP..el Blanchard and Lt. ;-iaut went…
  • p. 975 …Roger M. Ramey and Col. William H. Blanchard. Brig. Gen .. Roger M. Ramey was the Commanding…
  • p. 976 …As commander of Roswell Army Airfield and the 509th Bomb Group, Blanchard is alleged to have…
RW: When did all of this first surface, in your life? After you picked up the original stuff and you
went on to your career. When did the UFO part first surface in your life?
SC: You mean this sort of stuff?
RW: Yes. Was it with Berlitz and Moore?
SC: Our son sent this book to us.
RW: This is 1980, I think. Yeah 1980.
MC: A lot of that has been debunked by the other two guys.
SC: Wen, I don't remember where Joey got this book.
MC: They bought it, they bought it. And he came by to see us and we had just back ftom fishing
and you had one of your cluster headaches. And l did most of the talking here, because Cav was
having his cluster headaches.
SC: I had another cycle of cluster headaches. Similar to migraine.
RW: I understand those are really painful.
SC: I am about to come out of it, although I bad one last night, and I was awake all night long.
MC: Don't you think that is it. I never even gave it a thought.
RW: Until Mr. Moore and company showed up, around 1980 time frame?
SC: Yeah.
MC: 16 September 82 that he was here.
RW: O.K. Now from my research (not of AF records. but of popular literature records)
Friedman is the guy who ran into Marcel down in Louisiana in 1978, because Friedman bad been
a UFO researcher for years. He ran into Marcel and ftom his interview of Marcel it got Berlitz
and Moore interested, and that's when Marcel then started talking to all of these different people.
And then it has kind of grown since then.
MC: And then ofcourae, it's too bad apparently, you see little Jesse was about 11. Cav never
told me anything. He said nl never tell you anything then you won't spread anything. We always
wondered how 6ttle Jesse knew so much. To ua it should bave been business. Neol (Marcel's
wife) apparently was not able to give any infonnation after Jesse died.

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