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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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  • p. 322 …20 On May 28, the advance party of the balloon group arrived by B-17.21…
  • p. 708 …in advance of balloon release and a second notice will be filed at the time of…
  • p. 709 B • FRASE II. (l) The type balloon to be used in this phase of the project…
  • p. 791 …Upon attaining the desired altitude, the auxilliary lifting balloons wife be released from the main balloon…
When the civilians and personnel from Roswell AAF (Marcel, Cavitt, and Rickett)
"stumbled" upon the highly classified project and collected the debris, no one at
Roswell had a "need to know" about information concerning MOGUL. This fact,
along with the initial misidentification and subsequent rumors that the "capture"
of a "flying disc" occurred, ultimately left many people with unanswered
questions that have endured to this day.
Attachments:
1. 4 Photographs of Balloon Debris
JAMES McANDREW, 1st Lt, USAFR
Declassification and Review Officer
SAF/AAZD
2. Organizational Chart-Watson Laboratories
3. Drawing-New York University Flight No. 2
4. 2 Depictions of AN I CRT-1 Sonabuoy
5. Drawing of Comer Reflector
6. New York University Technical Report No. 1, Table VII
7. Map of New Mexico
8. Typical Employment of Weather Balloon and Corner Reflector
9. Project MoGUL Classification Letter
10. Drawing of "Hieroglyphics" by Prof. C.B. Moore
11. Alamogordo Daily News Article

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