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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.
“Blanchard”20 pages
material that would, well at first glance, you would probably think it was aluminum foil, something of that type. And we gathered up some of it. I don't know whether we even tried to get all of it. It wasn't scattered; well, what I call, you know, extensively. Like, it didn't go along the ground and splatter off some here and some there. We gathered up some of it and took it back to the base and I remember I had turned it over to Marcel. As I say, I do not remember whether Marcel was there or not on the site. He could have been. We took it back to the intelligence room...in the CIC office. RW: What did you think it was when you recovered it? SC: I thought a weather balloon. RW: O.K. Were you familiar with weather balloons at the time? SC: I had seen them. I had seen them. As I recall, I am really reaching back, I think they were equipped with a radio sonde or something like that, that transmitted data from, when it got up to altitude (what altitude I have no idea) and somebody on the ground received it and that way they got some information on what was happening up there. RW: O.K. SC: This is all over my head. When I saw it it was to flimsy to be anything to carry people or anything of that sort. It never crossed my mind that it could be anything but a radio sonde. RW: How did you get the report that the material was out there? SC: That I don't recall. Looking back on it, I imagine somebody called the 509th. The 509th called Marcel and said there is something over here, wherever. and then...more and more thinking back on it now he must have been...I must have been with him..."lets go out look and see what the hell..." RW: Did you just make one trip out to the area? SC: I can't recall ever making more than just that one trip. RW: And you think it was you, Marcel, and Rickett? SC: Well, I not sure it was Marcel but I know Rickett was... RW: Rickett was there? When you got back with this stuff you turned it over to the Intelligence Office. What happened then? SC: Nothing, as far as I'm concerned. I don't think I even made a report. Our CIC had gone by... 700 CIC was the CIC Headquarters.
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