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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…
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A F.eport tor Ge~e~al Carl Soaatz
oreoared b;- Y.aurlce Ewlng
Undor a contrnct w1 th the i:breau of Shlc.s, we hmte
prove~ thot ~her~ 1~ a ~cund channel 1n the ocean wltr 1ta
axis at a ~1ench of '"bot.:.t 4606 fee€. Conflrld.nf D. nredletlion
.made by tt:".O wr1 tor, a four oound bomb fired at thlS depth
bas been heard at a d!.stance of -2:300 nt1les, using • hy.~rop'bone·
at the ~ame depth as a receiver. 1'h.!.5 range enormc.v.sly
exee1.1ds anyth1ne before achieved, o.nd 1~ possible pr111111r111
becausa the so~!rco aod the receive:- are placed at th• most
advantaaeoua depth. Th3 slGnal strengt~ indicates that
far :!reater ranees ca;, be vnta1ned 111 thoclt change or eq>l1naent.
At a typical place in the ocean, the speed or
eound at tt,e surface 1s 5001 tt/sec. It decreases to 4888 tt/aeo
at a depth of 4000 feet. 'it.n.:i ~hen 1.ncreases to 5065 !"t/aec,
at a depth or 16.200 feet. Tb1e situation 1s~escr1beo a•
a sound channel .. 1tb 1t& axis at 4000 feet, because all 801.l'ild
rays are deflected downwar~ at points above the axis and u~ard
at ooints below it. Detailed cal~;lation ot the bending of
tho ray lJaths due to -presat:re and teu;pera ture shows that all
ra~s leaving a sound source on the axta 1n directions within
lzg or the no~izontal are refraoted back and forth across t~
ax1a and can tr&Yel unlimited d1ataneea w1thnut contact with'
aurtace or bottom, hence the long ~ea. A eimilar calculation
ror a sound aouree nea~ the· surtace abo•• that all raya :DU•t
be reflected at aart~ee and bottom many timoa 1n the course
of a tn tmndred ::tlilca, hence the 11m1ted range of detect1qrt
of or::11nar;r shallow explosions, and the ocourence ot skip
~1stancea. ·
~·sound fro~ an explosion at the axis ot th6.80ucd
channel baa a duration of abo,tt 12 aeconda per thousand mtlea
of travel, a."'ld an umalatak&ble pe.ttem or a gra~ual bu1ld1!1l6
up to :ax111Uil 1ntena1ty wttb a very sharp cut-ott. 'rhta
laat feature 1a ot great importance beoauae 1t perm1ta aoc~rate
trlansulation w1tb A network or three 11aten1ng ata~1ona,
the rate of ta nsm1aa1on be1n~ about one !Idle per ,••oond.
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