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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…
PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
A: The ones in early June were all service flights. In
other words, all flights we were making for Peoples, and we had
some radar test flights.
Q: so to go with the June 14th date, what type of flight
do you think would have ..•
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A: All the balloons launched in that period would have
been meteorological balloons, 350 gram meteorological balloons,
some of them with radar targets just to test the radar out and
some of them, I'd forgotten all about it, but Crary's diary says
we had sonobuoy microphones on some of them. So that black box
that Cavitt had really began to get my attention.
Q: That would not be a radiosonde.
A: That would not be a radiosonde.
Q: What would a radiosonde look like?
A: It would be a white, usually a cardboard or a plastic
box, and the fact that we were involved in radar is because we
weren't allowed to have our radiosonde equipment. We weren't all
set up for that.
Q: You said you didn't bring it with you.
A: We didn't bring the receiver. I have to correct
myself, we did attach radiosondes to them, to the flights
carrying microphones because there's a statement in this summary
here of radiosonde reception. Radiosonde recording. So I take
that back. Yes, we had radiosonde. But we did fly this one
mentioned here, on June 4th, out to Tulerosa range, no balloon
flight, again, on account of clouds. By that he means none of
their flights. Then "Flew regular sonobuoy mike on a cluster of
balloons and had good (inaudible) receiver on ground but poor on
plane."
Q: I notice early on you were going ahead with the Navy
stocked sonobuoy while Professor Ewing was trying to perfect his
technique of the low range frequency microphone.
A: Oh, the low frequency microphone, right. That's
correct.
Q: He was experimenting with both AM and FM, is that your
recollection?
A: In the laboratory, devices for measuring low frequency
acoustic waves were well known, but what he was attempting to do
was to modify these and devise something to be a throw-away
microphone and radio transmitter, so this was to build an
instrument for a certain purpose. He actually had a fellow named

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