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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. 12 …Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July 9, 1947 17. Statement, Lt. Col. Sheridan…
  • p. 13 …Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July 9, 1947 2. Organizational Chart, Watson Laboratories…
  • p. 27 …These locations include Fort Worth, Texas, the home of the Eighth Air Force Headquarters; possibly Sandia…
  • p. 31 …DC; Federal Records Center, Ft Worth, TX; the INSCOM Archives, Fort Meade, MD; National Air and…
  • p. 35 …in the famous photos (Atch 16) in Fort Worth was that of a radar target normally…
  • p. 36 …were told was a flying saucer to Fort Worth. The people on board included...and Maj…
  • p. 37 …Newton was a weather officer assigned to Fort Worth, who was on duty when the Roswell…
  • p. 42 …photographs taken at the time by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, that depicted Ramey and Marcel…
  • p. 43 …the wreckage prior to its getting to Fort Worth. This organization reported on July 20, 1994…
  • p. 47 …After the autopsies, conspiracy theorists said the bodies were flown to Fort Worth and then to…
  • p. 65 …to Fort Worth. "Flying disc." Some of the debris was flown to Fort Worth. as where…
  • p. 84 …Center (WNRC) or the Southwest Regional Depository (Fort Worth, Texas). ## Recommendations Because the records management policy…
  • p. 131 …taken to Eighth Air Force Headquarters in Fort Worth where it was subsequently identified as a…
  • p. 138 …And I obviously...Marcel took it to Fort Worth. Yeah that's the... RW: Yeah. That…
  • p. 139 …into Wright-Pat and Kirtland, or to Fort Worth. Back and forth, loaded up, with very…
  • p. 145 …Then it said: "After Marcel had gone to Fort Worth and came back Marcel challenged the…
  • p. 147 …O.K."Marcel would take some of the sample to Fort Worth to show Ramey. In…
  • p. 150 normal course of his duty was sent to Washington not 8th Air Force in Fort Worth…
  • p. 219 …But the Roswell morning paper clearly showed that there was a knowledgeable person in Fort Worth…
  • p. 231 …Headquarters by a news photographer of the Fort Worth Star Telegram. It's four pictures that…
  • p. 263 …I was the only weather forecaster on duty in the Fort Worth base weather and flight…
  • p. 269 …flown to Eighth Air Force Headquarters at Fort Worth AAF, TX, for his personal inspection. Upon…
  • p. 277 …Before the announcement was made, the "disc" was flown to Fort Worth AAF, at the direction…
  • p. 278 …giant thermos jug" was allegedly transported from Fort Worth AAF to Wright Field. $ ^{38} $ This description…
  • p. 280 designs on it." $ ^{41} $ Furthermore, the Fort Worth Army Airfield Weather Officer, Irving Newton, who was…
  • p. 283 1 Fort Worth Star-Telegram Photographs of Balloon Debris July 9, 1947
  • p. 549 …Similarly, the Fort Worth Sub-Committee established a procedure for flights made within the Fort Worth…
  • p. 616 …Air Coordinating Committee, Fort Worth Regional Airspace Subcommittee. Subject: Obstructions to air navigation...43 5. Memorandum…
  • p. 655 …5/15/47 Office of the Secretary Fort Worth Sub-Committee on Air Space Civil Aeronautics…
  • p. 715 …Arrived in Fort Worth about 9 EDST. Off again to Big Springs, Texas, where forced to…
SC: Yeah, that is possible. I didn't know about that particular thing. I just knew weather balloons went up and measured. This was my first impression. I didn't know anything else, so O.K., that's it, forget it. The thing that disturbed me is why they cannot shoot down this story about the little bodies and so forth that were allegedly taken to Wright-Pat or some place.

RW: Wright-Pat, right.

SC: And put in a sealed (unintelligible) or so forth. And the only thing, Rick might have gotten confused about something. You mentioned crashes. We had one there at Roswell. They practiced this air to air refueling, which was just, I think, getting into real high-tech stuff as far as I knew.

RW: B-29's?

SC: Yeah. And they were refueling them. We had one rather, rather hell! Where the plane that was being refueled for some reason or other pitched up when they were either getting to attach the cord, or the other one came down, which doesn't sound logical, I think it's more apt to have went up. One or both of those planes crashed. I forget what direction it was up from Roswell, but I went out to that crash at the request of Marcel; maybe Blanchard, and I probably took Rickett with me. We had bodies all over the place, and it was a sad thing. We recovered some fingers, of course, there was one hell of a big fire after it happened. I collected a bunch of hands, fingers and so forth, trying to identify them. At the time I thought this was sort of stupid. They had a list back at the Operation Office. Other than identifying body parts so that some guy's wife would know that she had part of her, used to be, former husband. And I don't remember where we sent those things for identification. I remember going into the office after that trying to get prints off of these old shriveled up fingers and so forth. What good it would do, I don't know. I didn't know then, but I was wonder if maybe Rick got confused that maybe this was some of the bodies. I doubt it, but it is just a possibility. But I don't know why they can't trace down those bodies.

RW: Well, that is the ultimate part of the quote "cover up" that we're involved in. You and I would probably think as OSI agents if you recovered a body that is unusual, that would generate a whole bunch of paperwork. We are a paperwork society. I mean, it may be classified with a bazillion stamps on it, but it would generate a lot of study and things. And we have not been able to locate one piece of anything to indicate that is so.

SC: It boggles my mind that we would not be able to find anything. The Air Force having the...I mean we were close knit and it seemed that there had to be a trail and pick up and eventually end there in that grip, or whatever they put these bodies in.

RW: But did you ever hear of any talk of that type of stuff when you were at Roswell?

SC: Down there. No.

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