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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. 15 …Gen Roger M. Ramey Col William H. Blanchard Maj Gen Clements McMullen Brig Gen Donald N…
  • p. 36 …Additionally, this history showed that the 509th Commander, Colonel Blanchard, went on leave on July 8…
  • p. 37 the supposed first ever recovery of extraterrestrial materials. (Detractors claim Blanchard did this as a ploy…
  • p. 46 …Additionally, it seems that there was overreaction by Colonel Blanchard and Major Marcel in originally reporting…
  • p. 75 …William Blanchard. the Public Information Officer, Walter G. Haut, issued a news release that the Amry…
  • p. 104 …e July 1947. Colo·nel i1. H. Blanchard, ; y ::o!'!lr.'a.od.ing Of.f…
  • p. 105 …Colonel Oliver LaFarge, Air Reserve Corps, at Santa Fe, made atrangernents for Colonel Blanchard to visit…
  • p. 106 …Colonel Blanchard spoke on the fu"':ure of the Air Force, and the talk was very…
  • p. 164 …Colonel Blanchard. RW: Oh yeah. Excuse me, Colonel Blanchard. SC: He was the Wmg Commander of…
  • p. 167 …The first picture is actually with Jesse Marcel and that's General Blanchard and ... SC: I…
  • p. 172 …Colonel Wdliam Blanchard and the other officer suggested that Marcel and CIC agent accompanied Brazel to…
  • p. 174 …O.K. "Blanchard, who was still at the base... ordered Marcel to accompany the rancher back…
  • p. 176 …Albuquerque rather than Fort Worth and although Blanchard outranked the CIC agent (meaning yourself) a phone…
  • p. 183 …time and we don't know if Blanchard knew about that or not: (we don't…
  • p. 184 …crash at the request of Marcel; maybe Blanchard, and I probably took Rickett with me. We…
  • p. 189 …The things that Ramey and Blanchard used to! Blanchard came over to the Philippines. I think…
  • p. 254 …What about then Colonel Blanchard and General Ramey? Do you think they may have had any…
  • p. 964 …CU'l'IVE CALEJ\'D!Ul. -3 September 1947 - ColoP..el Blanchard and Lt. ;-iaut went…
  • p. 975 …Roger M. Ramey and Col. William H. Blanchard. Brig. Gen .. Roger M. Ramey was the Commanding…
  • p. 976 …As commander of Roswell Army Airfield and the 509th Bomb Group, Blanchard is alleged to have…
The interview with Colonel Trakowski (Atchs 23-24) also proved valuable
information. Trakowski provided specific details on Project MOGUL and described
how the security for the program was set up, as he was formerly the Top Secret
Control Officer for the program. He further related that many of the original
radar targets that were produced around the end of World War II were fabricated
by toy or novelty companies using a purplish-pink tape with flower and heart
symbols on it. Trakowski also recounted a conversation that he had with his
friend, and superior military officer in his chain of command, Colonel Marcellus
Duffy, in July, 1947. Duffy, formerly had Trakowski's position on MOGUL, but had
subsequently been transferred to Wright Field. He stated: " ... Colonel Duffy
called me on the telephone from Wright Field and gave me a story about a fellow
that had come in from New Mexico, woke him up in the middle of the night or
some such thing with a handful of debris, and wanted him, Colonel Duffy, to
identify it. ... He just said 'it sure looks like some of the stuff you've been
launching at Alamogordo' and he described it, and I said 'yes, I think it is.'
Certainly Colonel Duffy knew enough about radar targets, radiosondes, balloon-
borne weather devices. He was intimately familiar with all that apparatus."
Attempts were made to locate Colonel Duffy but it was ascertained that he had
died. His widow explained that, although he had amassed a large amount of
personal papers relating to his Air Force activities, she had recently disposed of
these items. Likewise, it was learned that A.P. Crary was also deceased; however
his surviving spouse had a number of his papers from his balloon testing days,
including his professional journal from the period in question. She provided the
Air Force researchers with this material. It is discussed in more detail within Atch
32. Overall, it helps fill in gaps of the MOGUL story.
During the period the Air Force conducted this research, it was discovered that
several others had also discovered the possibility that the "Roswell Incident" may
have been generated by the recovery of a Project MOGUL balloon device. These
persons included Professor Charles B. Moore, Robert Todd, and coincidentally,
Karl Pflock, a researcher who is married to a staffer who works for Congressman
Schiff. Some of these persons provided suggestions as to where documentation
might be located in various archives, histories and libraries. A review of FOIA
requests revealed that Robert Todd, particularly, had become aware of Project
MOGUL several years ago and had doggedly obtained from the Air Force, through
the FOIA, a large amount of material pertaining to it; long before the AAZD
researchers independently seized on the same possibility.
Most interestingly, as this report was being written, Pflock published his own
report of this matter under the auspices of FUFOR, entitled Roswell in Perspective
(1994). Pflock concluded from his research that the Brazel Ranch debris originally
reported as a "flying disc" was probably debris from a MOGUL balloon; however,
there was a simultaneous incident that occurred not far away, which caused an
alien craft to crash and which the AAF subsequently recovered three alien bodies
therefrom. Air Force research did not locate any information to corroborate that
this incredible coincidence occurred, however.
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