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

USAF / The Black Vault · 1995 · 882 pages · text by 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.

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  • p. 706 …1130 pm Owl to NYC May 6 Mon. Caught 625 train out of Penn Station to…
  • p. 707 Dec 2 Mon. Cakhurst. Cold wave hit about midnight - temperature down to $ 1 5^{\circ} $ - strong…
  • p. 708 …Dec 23 Mon. Oakhurst. Worked on Alamogordo and Flight 13. Had flight # 14 this pm. - 24…
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  • p. 710 …Arrived AP about 1230 Feb 3 Mon Oakhurst. Peoples in Washington regarding balloon ascention in June…
  • p. 711 …Feb 24 Mon. Alamogordo. Waited for air transportation today but none available and may not be…
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# TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW OF SHERIDAN CAVITT (Note: RW = Col Richard L. Weaver; SC = Sheridan Cavitt; MC = Mary Cavitt)

RW: Today is the 24th of May 1994. I am in I am Colonel Richard L. Weaver and I am talking to Lt Col Sheridan Cavitt, US Air Force, Retired. Also present in the room is his wife, Mary. Colonel, you don't mind that I tape record this do you?

SC: Go right ahead.

RW: O.K. thank you. What I would like to ask you is to confirm you were with the Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) (at that time of the US Army) in 1947?

SC: Yes...the Army Air Corps...right.

RW: When did you get transferred to Roswell, Sir?

SC: I went to Roswell after going to the CIC School in Baltimore, Maryland, at Camp Holabird...in 1946. I do not remember the month. My wife might. It was in the Fall was it not?

MC: June of 47.

SC: June?

RW: I think on your records you graduated in June of 47.

SC: From Holabird?

RW: Yeah, Holabird.

SC: O.K...I told you my dates are slipping my mind.

RW: That's O.K...I have the same problem.

SC: It's hard to remember July 47. I hadn't been there very long.

RW: Did you know a Major Jesse Marcel who was the Intelligence Officer during Roswell at that time?

SC: Oh yes. I knew Jesse, his wife, and his son. We were very close friends. We were in the same building in the CIC office, which was next to the intelligence office. We associated socially as well as business.

RW: Sir, you were the senior officer and the commander at the detachment there at Roswell?

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