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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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SC: Yeah. RW: No, I never saw this. SC: I don't know what that is from. RW: "But at least one surviving member of the recovery team actually handled the material, (Unintelligible). Eighty two year old Lewis Rickett. 'Cavitt had been there the day before, but he wouldn't tell me what was going on until we got there.' With armed troops standing guard Rickett wandered through the security phalanx and saw metallic debris scattered in an outer circle with a diameter of 25, 30, or 40 feet." SC: It must have been Rickett sort a flipped of little bit. See this was something that he...an interview he had shortly before he died, I think. MC: Well, when they interview Rick he was older and trying to make people remember things that happened umpteen years ago is pretty hard. SC: I have probably received an awfully lot more than that, Rich, and threw it away. Sorry. RW: So these people have been pretty much tracking you down on a regular basis then? SC: Oh, yes! Mary can verify that. She said she had been home when she got telephone calls. MC: I have talked to some of these fellows myself. SC: Yeah, if I'm not here she talks to them. Blabber away, and she gives it right down the line. "Have they ever tried to influence you to say that I am lying or holding anything out?" MC: No. I just tell them that you are telling the truth. SC: They don't believe you when you tell the truth. RW: I guess they don't. That's the problem we have with this whole line of inquiry and attempt to look this. It is very hard to prove the negative. It is hard to prove that something didn't happen, because you don't document stuff that doesn't happen. SC: No, it is pretty hard to, difficult, but a good imagination can. These boys have it. MC: The picture that was in the Roswell paper, as I said, we had just gotten there so we probably had to start subscribing to it. But nobody passed it around. RW: Well let me tell you what's in the official records that we found so far. So you will have feel.
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