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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.

  • p. 28 …Evidence in Search of Proof" (1985) by Moore; The UFO Crash at Roswell (1991) by Kevin…
  • p. 33 …There were no ancillary records in Air Force files to indicate the potential existence of such…
  • p. 66 …All of this organization's UFO study files were transferred to the National Archives and made…
  • p. 68 …These primary documents should have been part of this organization's UFO study files and currently…
  • p. 81 …On 2 March 1994, Inquiries Branch staff developed a list of possible file locations which might…
  • p. 83 …ROSWELL UFO UFOS UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS WEATHER BALLOON WEATHER BALLOONS The IRIS search produced no documents…
  • p. 95 …These files contain policy guidance and AFOSI District reports of investigation concerning UFOs (filed primarily by…
  • p. 96 …These phenomena, later termed unidentified flying objects or UFOs, had been sighted with some frequency in…
  • p. 237 …He appeared to want to substantiate the existence of the UFO incident as a UFO. I…
# 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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