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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 …Ramey Col William H. Blanchard Maj Gen Clements McMullen Brig Gen Donald N. Yates Albert P…
  • p. 29 …Similarly, two authors, William L. Moore and Charles Berlitz, also engaged in research which led them…
  • p. 31 …The Roswell Incident (1980) by William Moore and Charles Berlitz; "Crashed Saucers: Evidence in Search of…
  • p. 206 …incident"( it was in about 1980 that William Moore contacted me and asked questions about balloons…
  • p. 217 …the books that have been written by William Moore, and Randall Schmidt, and others, a lot…
  • p. 254 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 38 diameter General Mills balloons. We had a very successful set…
  • p. 262 …One thing I should mention is that after I had visited from William Moore around •so…
  • p. 760 …Ben17 Itammenzind Ralph Morrell James Smith William lneer Duties Qualifications Computations & Equip- Undergraduate Elec. ment Construction…
PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 22
A: No. we were the balloonists. This was all ground-
based stuff. There was also an operation in Bermuda. Then later
you'll find ••.
Q: crary also initiated that?
A: He was in charge of it. He was running it. They went
and got a whole bunch of soo pound bombs out of the Earl
Ammunition Depot in New Jersey. Later you'll find that they did
a bunch down in the Canal zone. Then eventually they went to
Alaska.
Q: This was prior to '47?
A: The New Jersey, and I think the Bermuda operation,
you'll find a hint in this diary I gave you, you'll find a hint
about Bermuda and so on in there. He was talking about trying to
measure the sky waves coming in.
If you're interested, we can go extract, there's a paper in
the Journal of Meteorology in something like '47.
Q: I believe I have that. Is that the same one?
A: No, this is by Crary.
Q: Crary did quite a few publications for Red Bank and
then for cambridge Labs.
A: Correct. But you'll find one, I think it's either '74
or '49. If you want we can go over to our library and make you a
xerox of it.
Q: .I'm familiar with that one.
A: It's very circumspect as far as classified matter.
Q: So Peoples and Crary had Columbia University
affiliation?
A: Well, watson. They were derived from Columbia. Both
of them were derived ••. I think Peoples got his PhD under Ewing
at Columbia, and crary didn't get his doctorate until later.
Q: You said crary's ground station was Alamagordo, but he
was actually doing explosions in Alaska, off Bermuda, Panama, the
Jersey coast.
A: In the late '46, early '47 era, he was in Alamagordo,
in and around Alamagordo. He was very concerned about explosions
off the Jersey coast and I think off Bermuda. The Panama Canal
operation I think was not associated with Alamagordo at that
time.

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