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The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert

USAF / The Black Vault · 1995 · 882 pages · text by GLM-OCR

The Roswell Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert was published by Headquarters United States Air Force in 1995. The Black Vault distributes this copy. It reproduces the report by Col. Richard L. Weaver and the synopsis by 1st Lt. James McAndrew, both written after a General Accounting Office inquiry requested by Representative Steven Schiff. The Air Force search found no evidence of an extraterrestrial craft or crew. It concluded that the Roswell debris most likely came from NYU Flight No. 4, a Project MOGUL balloon train.

  • p. 8 …Computer Specialist, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, Pentagon; George Cully, Historian, 81st Training…
  • p. 20 …FOR THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE FROM: SAF/AAZ 1720 Air Force Pentagon Washington, DC…
  • p. 56 …SAF/FMPF, Room 4C228, Pentagon SUBJECT: Central Point of Contact, GAO Code 701034 2. You will…
  • p. 58 # DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE WASHINGTON DC 20330-1000 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY MEMORANDUM FOR DISTRIBUTION…
  • p. 59 …SAF/AAZ 1720 Air Force Pentagon Washington DC 20330-1720 SUBJECT: GAO Review on Records Management…
  • p. 75 …HQ USAF/XOWP 1490 Air Force Pentagon Washington DC 20330-1490 SUBJECT: GAO Review on Records…
  • p. 77 10 March 1994 SAF/AAIQ 1610 Air Force Pentagon Washington, DC 20330-1610 MEMORANDUM FOR SAF…
  • p. 78 …They noted that the histories for the 509th Bomb Group and Wing for Roswell Army Air…
  • p. 145 …the Pentagon if he had a problem with that he could take it up with the…
  • p. 185 …Perhaps you have it from the Pentagon files already, from the AG files. ## Q: We have…
  • p. 246 …Following that, I spent more than three years on the Air Staff in the Pentagon. Q…
  • p. 268 …Force Pentagon Washington, DC 20330-1720 SUBJECT: Report of Findings on Balloon Research The following report…

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7. Memo, Brig Gen James L. Cole, Jr., AF/SE, for SAF/AAZ, subj: GAO Review on Records Management Procedures with Weather Balloons, Unidentified Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents . . . , March 14, 1994

8. Memo, Col Michael W. Schoenfeld, SAF/AQL, for SAF/AA, subj: GAO Review on Records Management Procedures Dealing with Weather Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents . . . , March 22, 1994

9. Memo, Col Steve O. Ouzts, AF/XOWP, for SAF/AAZ, subj: GAO Review on Records Management Procedures Dealing with Weather Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents . . . , March 9, 1994

10. Memo, Grace T. Rowe, SAF/AAIQ, for SAF/AAI, SAF/AAZ, subj: GAO Review of Records Management Procedures Dealing with Weather Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents . . . , March 10, 1994

11. Memo with Attachment, Richard S. Rauschkolb, AFHRA/CC, for AF/HO, SAF/AAZ, subj: GAO Review on Records Management Procedures Dealing with Weather Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents . . . , March 8, 1994

12. Memo, with Attachments, Edward C. Mishler, HQ AFOSI/HO, for SAF/AAZ subj: GAO Review on Records Management Procedures . . ., May 11, 1994

13. Records Searched

14. Letter, Lt Col Thomas Badger, Jr., HQ/AAF, to Commanding General, AMC, subj: Issuance of Orders, June 5, 1947

15. Appointment Book and Diary, Lt Gen Hoyt S. Vandenberg, July 7-9, [1947], and July 5-9, 1947

16. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, [July 9, 1947]

17. Statement, Lt. Col. Sheridan D. Cavitt, USAF (Ret), May 24, 1994

18. Interview, Col Richard L. Weaver with Lt Col Sheridan D. Cavitt, USAF (Ret), [May 24, 1994]

19. Letters, Brig Gen E. O'Donnell to Commanding General AAF, July 8, 1946; Lt Col W.H. Congdon and Col D.P. Graul to Commanding General AMC, September 9, 1947; and Brig Gen Tom C. Rives to Commanding General AAF, September 10, 1947

20. Statement, Athelstan F. Spilhaus, June 3, 1994

21. Statement, Charles B. Moore, June 8, 1994, and Hieroglyphic and Balloon Train Drawings, August 28, 1992

22. Statement, Albert C. Trakowski, June 29, 1994

23. Interview, Col Jeffrey Butler and 1st Lt James McAndrew with Professor Charles B. Moore, June 8, 1994

24. Interview, [Col Jeffrey Butler and 1st Lt James McAndrew with] Col Albert C. Trakowski, USAF (Ret), June 29, 1994

25. Drawing, NYU Cluster Flight No. 2

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