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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. 39 …An advance ground team, led by Albert P. Cray, preceded the NYU group to Alamogordo Army…
  • p. 96 …OSI also developed an advanced Narcotics Investigations Course designed to teach the latest technics in combatting…
  • p. 174 …Dr Crary and Dr Peoples were the advance people and scientific monitors for our project. Dr…
  • p. 247 …Spilly was a consultant, and even in his advancing age he was still an enormous source…
  • p. 273 …the advance party of the balloon group arrived by B-17. $ ^{21} $ On May 29, the…
  • p. 617 …in advance of balloon release and a second notice will be filed at the time of…
  • p. 618 …Upon attaining the desired altitude, the auxiliary lifting balloons will be released from the main balloon…
  • p. 694 …in advance of balloon release and a second notice will be filed at the time of…
  • p. 695 (1) The type balloon to be used in this phase of the project will be a…
from north hangar and from Cloudcroft for awhile. Nothing from Roswell.

"On Thursday morning, July 3rd, a cluster of GM plastic balloons sent up for V-2 recording, but V-2 not fired. No shots fired. Balloons up for some time."

Q: What is a shot?

A: Explosive on the ground.

too? Q: You were doing explosives on the ground in New Mexico

A: Crary.

Q: So Crary would give you the signal, he'd say at 0400 I'm going to launch a balloon, and at 0500 I'm going to...

A: No, he wouldn't launch a balloon. I'd launch a balloon. What Peoples would do is say I want a flight up tomorrow morning. So the NYU group would get ready to make a flight, and then Crary would go out with his crew and fire explosives up and down the Tulerosa Basin while our balloons were in the air.

2. .. Q: So you had multiple explosions on the ground, the V-

A: And explosions on the East Coast.

Q: On the East Coast, Caribbean, and you had those timed so you knew when those were going to take place and you were simply waiting for...

A: They had them timed and we balloon types just fit into the schedule. But the master, the timing, bringing all this together, we knew nothing about. We were just scheduled to fly balloons.

Q: But you did want to launch early morning for the light winds.

A: We did want to launch early in the morning for light wind. We had freedom to tell them what we could do and what we couldn't do. We actually on this, in addition to everything else, we actually flew blocks of TNT on free balloons and fired them while we had other balloons in the air.

Q: Did those have radar targets on them also?

A: Probably.

Q: Were those detonated by...

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