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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. 9 …Appendices to the McAndrew Synopsis are identified by gray tabs which apear at the top right…
  • p. 28 …The rubber was smoky gray in color and scattered over an area about 200 yards in…
  • p. 38 …a thick, foil like metallic gray substance; a brittle, brownish-black plastic- like material, like Bakelite…
  • p. 43 …the ruptured and shredded neoprene would "almost look like dark gray or black flakes or ashes…
  • p. 205 …Some of the material would ahnost look like dark gray or black flakes or ashes after…
  • p. 222 …He talks about the smoky gray rubber ••. Q: Which these samples here, as you say, if…
  • p. 241 …There's a gray area here. I was certainly aware that what we were doing in…
  • p. 379 …that he might have found a smoky gray in color and scattered vatlon balloons on the…
Flight loa: Released from Alamogordo, New Mexico, 1015 MST, February4_1949
Recovered at Mountain View, Oklahoma
On Flight 103 a B-17 airplane was used to follow the balloon, homing in
em the signal from the .AK-1 transmitter with the radio compass. There were
few clouds over the first section of the balloon's path, and very exact
positioning was obtainable. The compass needle reversed almost immediately,
and no cone of silence was found when the plane passed beneath the balloon.
The fixes indicated on the trajectory (Figure 52) show how exactly the path
ot the balloon may be determined vmen tracked in such a manner.
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Figure 52
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