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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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Q: So is that pretty much maybe a condition of hiring? I notice you used a lot of former military people. Did you just tell them at the outset, "This is a classified project for AMC?" Or were they not read on to the project at all? A: By and large, people thought we were flying balloons for the Air Force. Q: As far as they were concerned they were just launching meteorological balloons? A: That's correct. Q: They didn't particularly quiz you about the microphone you hung in there or... A: No. Q: The balloons that you did launch for Project Mogul and some of the other test balloons, without the actual instrument packages, did they have reward tags, "Return to New York University," or "Return to Roswell Army Air Field," or to Alamagordo Army Air Field or anything like that? A: The ones that we wanted to get back, which were the test constant level balloons and the ones that had microphones on them, by and large, they did have NYU reward tags on them. Q: Dr. Peoples, whoever was directing you, was there ever any concern voiced that this is a top secret object we're sending into the atmosphere and we're not sure where it's going to come to earth. Did they ever express any problem with that, that wherever it came down, it came down? A: I think the argument was that when it came down, it would be mixed in with our other gear, and it was just part of a flight that was to be recovered by NYU. He thought nobody would interpret what those sorts of instruments would be. Q: So the tags were kind of generic, like a meteorological tag, say. "This consists of meteorological instruments..." A: "This is a research balloon flown by New York University..." Q: Were you doing other research? When you went to New Mexico was there another agenda other than the top secret project? A: None whatsoever. Our whole life revolved around the NYU constant level balloon project. We were developing constant level balloons, and the service flights for Peoples just sort of got hidden in that.
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