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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.
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RW: 700 CIC was the Headquarters? SC: Yes, I don't think I even made a report to them, which I normally would if there was anything at all unusual. RW: Do you remember the newspaper? It actually was, I think, July 7, 1947, where this now famous newspaper says they found a "flying disc" in Roswell? That was actually the Roswell paper, that was the first one. How about you, Mary, do you remember that at all? SC: I don't remember it. We took the local paper to get some weather reports. MC: We were so new there. In fact, I think I had just been there just maybe just a few days because I had been up to my sister's wedding and I don't think at that time we might not even been taking the paper. We heard no... SC: I don't remember anything in the paper. MC: We heard nothing. Of course, we didn't associate with people on the base, either. RW: Yeah, I understand. MC: We were brand new. Jesse and Salazar were best friends. At that...starting about the first of July on. RW: After you found this, Sir, do you remember any sort unusual activity occurring? Like a big military alert, or people going out to the base and large numbers of high security? SC: No. The reason I wouldn't have been involved in anything like that, if there was any activity like that, I was Counter Intelligence Corps, this didn't have anything to do with counterintelligence. It looked to me, somebody lost a weather balloon. I couldn't care less...tough luck. RW: But when you went out and saw this material, there was no doubt in your mind that it was some sort of man made material? And, you though at the time was a weather balloon, some sort of balloon? SC: When I first saw it. RW: When you said the wreckage wasn't very much, could you, was it as long as your house here, or just a small little clump? SC: Maybe as long as this room is wide. RW: So, twenty feet maybe?
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