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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 23
Here's a nice paper that came through courtesy of Todd. In
'48 there was a big operation in the Pacific for Operation
Sandstone, and we were heavily involved in that. Here's the
Fitzwilliam ••• Schneider and J.R. Smith ••• My chief associate
technically was a fellow named Dick Smith, James Richard Smith,
who unfortunately, died two years ago. Smith and Schneider and
some other of my associates went out on Sandstone to Kwajelin,
Guam, and then Oahu.
Q: I've seen that in publication. I have to acquire it.
A: You can xerox it.
Q: Moving chronologically, Professor EWing had affiliation
with Woods Hole, and he was a meteorologist by trade?
A: No, oceanographer. He was a physicist, a geo-
physicist.
Q: What was he doing at Columbia?
A: I think he ended up head of the Department of Geo-
Physics. I don't know the details.
Q: For the AMC contract he was developing ...
A: He, as we, were contractors.
Q: He was developing the acoustical •••
A: That's correct.
Q: That acoustical gear, this is a later flight but it•s a
fairly good depiction. It shows payload here, and payload is
mentioned in a lot of the reports without any further
elaboration, what the payload was. That was primarily the low
frequency microphones ••.
A: That was their euphemism for •••
Q: So as not to be able to talk about what was then a
classified payload.
A: Here are the sort of instruments. A chamber with a
leak in it, and then a method of sensing the pressure inside the
chamber. That affected the frequency of an oscillator that came
to ground. That's the sort of thing that was developed at
Columbia.
Q: Dr. Spilhaus also mentioned about trying to detect
particulate matter.
A: That was another operation. A Tracer lab, have you
come across Charlie Ziegler at Brandeis?

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