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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.
“Fort Worth”32 pages
- 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…
the balloon is not visible due to haze. cloud cover. etc. Ground radar
has been used • .nen available, ~th fair results. particularly when radar
targets are added to the flight train.
E. Fligh.t Termination Control
Due to the size and weight of the balloons and the flight gear •
the Civil Aeronautics Authority was advised oft he testing program. At a
meeting in New York an 20 .March 1947, the New York Air Space Sub-Committee
prescribed a procedure which was designed to minimize the hazard to air
traffic. Similarly, the Fort Worth Sub-Committee established a procedure
for flights made within the Fort V1orth .ttegion of the cAA. Pertinent cor-
respondence with the CAA is included in the Appendix. Part 2. Owing to
the si. ze of these cells, a very slow rate of descent should be expected
atter all ballast has been expended and the flight control devices have
ceased to operate. Thus a large balloon and several heavy pieces of
equipment might take an hour or more to descend through the levels of
air travel. Despite the extreme improbability of midair collision. it is
obviously desirable to take all possible precautions against such mishap
and current flights have the following safeguards: (1) Flights are released
on days ~hen cloud cover is forecast to be light. thus permitting visual
contact. (2) Notices to airmen are to be issued if the balloon is descending
within designated regions of dense air tra~fic. (3) To reduce the time
involved in a final descent, a special device called the "blowout patch"
has been~eveloped. This is an igniting squib which is fastened to the
side of the cell. on the equator. Sealed in with the squib, which is fired
electrically ~hen the cell descends below 20.000 feet, is a quantity of
gunpowder and magnesium. When the squib is fired. the incendiary patch
blows out, allowing a rapid escape of gas through the opening. Since the
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