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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. 190 …Well, Boford was Navy, that was the Navy... Q: Like taking a Pi Ball reading now…
  • p. 191 …fabricate balloons for us. During that period we heard of the Navy project that was going…
  • p. 207 …But were any of those used as precursors to Mogul or... A: None whatsoever. That was…
  • p. 270 …Ewing had conducted considerable research for the Navy during World War II, studying, among other things…
  • p. 323 …f) Measurements of actual sound channel transmission using a small stratosphere balloon carrying sound receivers and…
  • p. 657 …At the present time this company cannot supply us with balloons until Navy clearance is obtained…
  • p. 693 …for six hours using a non-extensible envelope with the addition of a ballast valve to…
  • p. 704 …Met Gifford who has 90' sea rescue boat this project is planning to use. Stayed at…
  • p. 705 …Wyckoff, Hungerfield, Vaux and myself regarding Navy participation with us in Crossroads. Captain Kellogg of Weather…
  • p. 718 …Schneider up with O'Day to check use as NYU station. Alamoggrdo crew helped get helium…
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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