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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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A: ...much of which we can copy and make it easier for you. These are balloon fragments, things that held balloons [up] after they'd been exposed to the sun. Q: Is this the neoprene type or the... A: That's the neoprene type. I have the polyethylene type... Q: Is this from the '47 era? A: That's a balloon probably from the '50s. That's a K San balloon. The kind of balloons we used then were the (inaudible) derricks balloons, and that's the way they look after they've been out in the sun. That's about three weeks' exposure to sunlight here in New Mexico. Q: So the polyethylene really is degraded by sunlight. A: That's neoprene. All that's neoprene. Q: This almost looks like ashes of paper. A: That's right. And there's a big point in some of the recovery that the material was black... Here is the list of the people who were assigned under Colonel Duffy in the Air Force liaison office. Istvan's name you'll find in there. He ended up being in the Titan program and, I think, retired as a lieutenant colonel maybe back in the '70s. Schneider was the administrative director of our project. He and I worked together. He was in Maine, and was not really technically involved. I have letters from him if you're interested in seeing them. He says he has no memory of this. A person who was heavily involved in developing this whole radar thing was Colonel Joe Fletcher. I wrote him a letter asking for his help and he essentially says he doesn't remember much. Q: He's also been hounded by some of these UFO... A: And by Todd and by me. Q: So it appears as though you, yourself, have done some extensive research into this particular incident. A: Until two years ago, I was quite convinced one of our polyethylene balloons we didn't recover caused it. Then I got this newspaper, Todd sent me this, and I immediately saw there's no way that could be a polyethylene balloon.
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