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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. 28 …Evidence in Search of Proof" (1985) by Moore; The UFO Crash at Roswell (1991) by Kevin…
  • p. 33 …There were no ancillary records in Air Force files to indicate the potential existence of such…
  • p. 66 …All of this organization's UFO study files were transferred to the National Archives and made…
  • p. 68 …These primary documents should have been part of this organization's UFO study files and currently…
  • p. 81 …On 2 March 1994, Inquiries Branch staff developed a list of possible file locations which might…
  • p. 83 …ROSWELL UFO UFOS UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS WEATHER BALLOON WEATHER BALLOONS The IRIS search produced no documents…
  • p. 95 …These files contain policy guidance and AFOSI District reports of investigation concerning UFOs (filed primarily by…
  • p. 96 …These phenomena, later termed unidentified flying objects or UFOs, had been sighted with some frequency in…
  • p. 237 …He appeared to want to substantiate the existence of the UFO incident as a UFO. I…
who are said to have known all about MOGUL, apparently did not compare the descriptions of the suspect debris with that of the components of a Project MOGUL balloon train. MOGUL reports and documents that contain descriptions, illustrations, and photographs have been publicly available for at least twenty years. Had the researchers completed even a cursory comparison, they would have found that the materials were suspiciously similar; detailed examination would have shown them to be one and the same. In the final analysis, it appears these individuals have pursued the convenient red herring provided by Roswell Army Airfield, while the real explanation lay just over the Sacramento Mountains at the MOGUL launch site in Alamogordo.

This report explains the events that transpired in and near Roswell, New Mexico, in the summer of 1947. It is based on written documentation and first-hand accounts of participants, all of which are provided here in their entirety. While these answers are not as titillating as tales of unearthly craft and creatures, it is a fascinating story nonetheless.

JAMES McANDREW, 1ST LT, USAFR Declassification and Review Officer SAF/AAZD

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