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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. 1 THE ROSWELL REPORT Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert Headquarters United States Air Force…
  • p. 7 Clinical Investigations and Life Sciences Division, Headquarters Air Force Medical Operating Agency, Bolling AFB, DC; John…
  • p. 28 …the disc had been "flown to higher headquarters." That same story also reported that a Roswell…
  • p. 30 …These locations include Fort Worth, Texas, the home of the Eighth Air Force Headquarters; possibly Sandia…
  • p. 71 DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE MEMORANDUM FOR FROM: AFiiN SUBJECT: References…
  • p. 75 …DuBose says officials at the Headquarters of the Eighth Air Force were directed to tell the…
  • p. 81 DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WASHINGTON DC MEMORANDUM FOR SAF/AAZ…
  • p. 89 DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE 09 Mar94 MEMORANDUMFORSAF/AAZ ATIENTION: Lt…
  • p. 107 …Colonel Loberg, Headquarters, Eighth Air Force, arrived this date to coordinate with S-3 and check…
  • p. 108 …Boatright, Headquarters, Eighth Air Force, arrived to coordinate with Statistical Control on cost analysis. 16 July…
  • p. 133 HEADQUARTERS, ARMY AIR FORCES WASHINGTON SUBJECT: Iuuance o! Ordera !01 Couaa8.1ng General .A.1r Materiel…
  • p. 144 …we haven't s~uadron or grou~ headquarters should take their people away. 1:55 P…
  • p. 159 …I did not make a report of this incident to my headquarters since I felt that…
  • p. 165 …700 CIC was the CIC Headquarters.
  • p. 166 …700 CIC was the Headquarters? SC: Yes, I don't think I even made a report…
  • p. 167 …I think this was taken at the Headquarters at Carswell. RW: Yeah, that's right. That…
  • p. 168 …I took it to 8th Air Force Headquarters, General Ramey was excited; they were going to…
  • p. 177 …I don't even want 700 CIC Headquarters to know we wasted our time on it…
  • p. 178 …So that, to me, implies that this would have been your CIC Headquarters also sent some…
  • p. 227 …I was assigned, believe it or not, to Headquarters, Air Force .•• I still have the Headquarters…
  • p. 265 …on the basis of orders out of Headquarters Army Air Force. Q: While you were operating…
  • p. 266 …These are the pictures taken in General Ramey's office, 8th Air Force Headquarters by a…
  • p. 282 …Then after I left the headquarters of ARDC in Baltimore, I spent four years at the…
  • p. 318 …debris be flown to Eighth Air Force Headquarters at Fort Worth AAF, TX, for his personal…
  • p. 327 …Andrews AAF was headquarters of the Army Air Forces Weather Service. It is also interesting to…
  • p. 407 HEADQUARTERS FITZWILLIAM FORWARD c/o Commander, Task Group 7.2 APO 187, c/o Postmaster San…
  • p. 409 …arrival of the explo- sion sound wave. Headquarters FITZ\nlliArA FCRI1ARD furnished ARPACAS 3-1 and…
  • p. 964 …Morgan, from Headquarters Eighth Air Force, ;'las here to confer with the Engineering Officer, Captain ?cterson…
  • p. 984 …Marcellus Duffy eliminated it and several others from the project when Headquarters U.S. Army Air…
COL TRAKOWSKI - 6/29/94 8
Q: The Sea Girt Inn?
A: Exactly. That's where John had his office, and I was there for a time doing work on
developing the operational procedures of the SCR-658, the radio direction of wind- meteorological data.
Rawinsonde-1 did most all the work on developing how to use that instrument, and it was done there
at the Sea Girt Inn.
Q: Do you recall any other physical attributes about the radar reflectors, the balsa wood?
Charlie Moore indicated that the material had been coated in something like Elmer's glue which made it
much more durable. Do you recall anything like that?
A: No, I don't. I didn't concern myself with that except as an observation to the side. The
radar targets were geometrically elementary. There were three intersecting planes: X, Y, and Z. Their
geometry was such, as you well know, that any incident wave would be reflected exactly, precisely, in
the direction from which it came. So they were simple. I don't recall any of the details of how they were
made, what what the materials were, what coatings were used, or anything. At the time it wasn't within
the range of my job.
Q: Did Colonel Duffy inform you officially? When he said he called you, was this like an
official ...
A: No. It was just an informative call. There wasn't any official transmission of knowledge
nor expected action to result from it.
Q: Did Colonel Duffy consider this to be some sort of security violation?
A: No. Not to my knowledge, no. It was part of doing business.
Q: So he wasn't particularly upset, and he didn't require a formal explanation.
A: No.
Q: So that's the first you were aware, when he called you. None of your technicians had
mentioned it to you?
A: No. Not to my knowledge.
Q: Did you have any interaction with the people at Eighth Air Force such as General Ramey
or anyone else who may have been at Roswell Army Air Field?
A: No. I don't recall any interaction with them, no.
Q: What about Dr. Crary or Dr. Peoples? Do you know if they had interaction with the
[Eighth Air Force] folks?
A: I don't recall any, no.

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