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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.
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PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 18 executive officer of a flight detachment at Newark Airport. I got back from overseas in February of '46, I think. After getting out of the replacement depot, I got assigned back to Colonel Duffy and was assigned at Newark. I went on terminal leave something like July of '46 and went back to Georgia Tech and finished two quarters. I had two quarters to finish at Georgia Tech. While I was at Georgia Tech I began working with a microwave, an anonymous propagation research group that turned out, oddly enough, was under Colonel Duffy's direction. I didn't know it. It had nothing to do with my getting deployed there, but I had a student assistanceship working on that. I made some report, and my name came back in front of Colonel Duffy in September, I think, of 1 46, and I got asked to come up to his office. I think he was still at Bradley Beach, Sharp River Hills Hotel there near Belmar, New Jersey. When I was there, who should come in but Spilhaus. They told me they had a problem involving balloons and asked if I would be interested in working with them, and they offered me a graduate assistanceship at NYU, and I wanted to go to graduate school in physics, so I was delighted to have that opportunity. That was either September or October of 1 46. Q: So Spilhaus, since he was on the staff there, he invited you to come to New York University. A: Yes, he did. Q: So you went to New York University when? A: Right after had already started. a copy of (inaudible) have all of that. Christmas. January 1, 1947. The program I presume you have all the details. I have letter to General Spaatz. I presume you Q: I believe we do, but I'd still like to review it and make sure it's the same letter. A: In any event, there was a big push. I guess after Operation Crossroads the first nuclear test in the Pacific was in July of '46, and Crary, because of the long range detection concept, Crary was sent to Ascension Island which is the antipode for, as close as they could get to the antipode for Bikini, and failed to detect any signal from Operation Crossroads, from the nuclear explosion. Q: You mentioned detection. What drove the aspect of detection? Was it because of our test? A: Yes, our test was being used as a signal source. The question was in order to detect any Soviet test, could we detect our own tests. So Crary was essentially sent to Ascension to see if he could detect the nuclear explosion.
FOIA release, from the osd collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 993 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.