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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. 547 Flight 17a Released from Alamogordo, New :Mexioo, 1647 liST, September 9, 1947 Recovered at Croft, Kansas…
  • p. 743 …The balloon was ultimately recovered from Croft, Kansas, a distance of 530 miles from the release…
Released tr0111 Lakehurst. New Jersey. 0714 EST, August 5, 1947
R.eoO"f'ered at Sm.yma, Delaware
Thi• f'light saw the f'irat use of' aewral nn items. 1'he balloon was the
tiret .ool" polyethylene cell flown; a 397 mo(T·69) transmitter was flown.
with radio direotian·tinding equipment used to track the balloon; a 3 mo
(~1) transmitter was tested for the first time and the first model o£ a
ai:nima-pressure IJW'itch was provided to activate the automatic ballast "'''Llve.
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