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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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Here's a nice paper that came through courtesy of Todd. In '48 there was a big operation in the Pacific for Operation Sandstone, and we were heavily involved in that. Here's the Fitzwilliam... Schneider and J.R. Smith... My chief associate technically was a fellow named Dick Smith, James Richard Smith, who unfortunately, died two years ago. Smith and Schneider and some other of my associates went out on Sandstone to Kwajelin, Guam, and then Oahu. Q: I've seen that in publication. I have to acquire it. A: You can xerox it. Q: Moving chronologically, Professor Ewing had affiliation with Woods Hole, and he was a meteorologist by trade? A: No, oceanographer. He was a physicist, a geophysicist. Q: What was he doing at Columbia? A: I think he ended up head of the Department of Geo- Physics. I don't know the details. Q: For the AMC contract he was developing... A: He, as we, were contractors. Q: He was developing the acoustical... A: That's correct. Q: That acoustical gear, this is a later flight but it's a fairly good depiction. It shows payload here, and payload is mentioned in a lot of the reports without any further elaboration, what the payload was. That was primarily the low frequency microphones... A: That was their euphemism for... Q: So as not to be able to talk about what was then a classified payload. A: Here are the sort of instruments. A chamber with a leak in it, and then a method of sensing the pressure inside the chamber. That affected the frequency of an oscillator that came to ground. That's the sort of thing that was developed at Columbia. Q: Dr. Spilhaus also mentioned about trying to detect particulate matter. A: That was another operation. A Tracer lab, have you come across Charlie Ziegler at Brandeis?
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