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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: The service flights were which ones? A: The ones carrying the microphones. Q: So specifically that term was used for the microphone flights from... A: That's right. You'll notice when you look at this, that the flights out in the Pacific don't even get mentioned. There's just no report on the flights in the Pacific, and the flights in '48 that we made for Sandstone, there are some flight numbers recorded, but there are no details at all provided. Q: That was Grab Bag? A: No, Grab Bag was to grab stratospheric air to measure the krypton 85... Q: Essentially particulate detection and gaseous... A: That was gaseous. The particulate was, I think we were less involved in grabbing particulates. There have been thousands of flights made, and certain people did carry cascade impactors and other things, but that was a minor part of what we did, whereas Grab Bag was a very measure effort. Q: That was in '48? A: That was more '50 odd. Q: Was that Fitzwilliam? A: No, Fitzwilliam was entirely acoustic detection. Again, very long range detection. Fitzwilliam was spring of '48. There were various code names, and thanks to our friend Todd, I've learned about the code name got termed Black Heart and a whole bunch of odd names... Q: Black Heart, Rock Fish. He may be wrong on that part. He may be right, but... A: I heard Mogul got converted into Rock Fish. But I heard the detection part of Fitzwilliam ended up being called Black Heart. Q: He may be in error on that. A: As I say, I'd been much more concerned with the technical aspects than the military operations. Q: This is one of the technical reports and it's talking about the various flights, and this is the report that lists all of the numbered flights and it talks about, it says, "Excluded are the flights made to test," it's technical report number one,
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