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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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normal course of his duty was sent to Washington not 8th Air Force in Fort Worth. He was attached to the 509th, but his chain of command was different than the 8th Air Force, that's..."

SC: That's one of the few true stories they had in this book.

RW: "In fact he talked about many things willingly. He said the ranks of CIC agents were all classified at the time" (I know that's the way it was in OSI for years) "It didn't look right to have a Master Sergeant investigating a Colonel so no one on the base, except for a few clear to know, had any idea of what he or any of the others were. (Of course, that's the way we did business.)

SC: True.

RW: "He provided names of others who might be able to help and he described his normal unclassified duties at Roswell, but according to him the crash and recovery had never happened. There was no investigation on the Foster ranch, no mystery flight, and no discovery of alien bodies, nothing." Now we are getting to the part were they make you sound like somewhat of a conspirator. It said, "Randall said he and Schmitt had literally two dozen witness' to the special flights out of Roswell and the special clean up operation on the ranch. Something must have happened, the CIC man finally conceded, but I don't know what it was. As they left, the CIC man asked them, if you boys found something that affected national security would you keep it to your self? The former CIC man grins, and said 'very good'." So, somehow, by that remark, I imply that this was kind of, "I know something that you guys don't and if affects national security so we're not going to tell you." That's the way that I interpret what they wrote. Because, the rest of if just kind of recounts the way we did business, even when I came into OSI twenty years after that.

SC: You think they're talking about me there, "the former CIC man?"

RW: Yeah.

SC: If I said that, I probably said it really meaning that if these guys trying to make a buck writing their sensational book run into to something that really affected national security, I meant don't put it in a book.

RW: Yeah. OK.

SC: Turn it over to somebody.

RW: But you weren't implying that this incident affected national security and you weren't going talk about it?

SC: Oh, no! No way.

RW: OK. I see you have some materials you brought out here. That looks like one of you basic agent classes. Is that one of your basic agent classes there?

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