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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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Brazel gives the impression that it is the smoky rubber of a balloon that's been in the sunlight. A: That's circumstantial. That fits exactly with what would have been done, and orthodox use of radar targets would not have produced what he found. But you're quite right, there's debris that was reported to us that... Q: ...some sort of cylindrical instrument, though, that's obviously an instrument package of some sort. A: It had a plexiglass, it looked like maybe it had a UV sensor. There was some optical equipment under the plexiglass dome that was shattered... Q: You're familiar with the popular literature about the various crash sites. There's one crash site, two crash sites, three crash sites and all that craziness? Q: What I'm thinking is we may have two incidents here, where they collected your debris from your radar targets, and then there may have been another something else not related to a balloon. A: There could have been other things from White Sands. This was on the edge of the proving ground. There's a story behind this, and that is that a rancher, whose land had been taken from him to form the proving ground, had cattle that were still on what had been his land. He had found this while he was looking for his cattle, I can show you on the map if you're interested. Anyway, he called in to Alamagordo about this. So I went up to see if it was one of our missing balloons. While we were there, a range security guard came on the rancher and really castigated him for breaking the law, coming back onto the range. So this was really on the range. It would be hard for me to understand how the sort of operations, which I knew, could have fallen as far away as these other sites you talk about. This was really on the northeast corner of the range, just west of the town of Carazoso. ## Q: So that's not too far from here. A: Here's the northeast corner. [Looking on map] Right on this road, right about there is where that load there was found. Here is where the Brazel finding was, just north of this bend of the road here, and there's Roswell. Q: You're talking in terms of sites around Corona and in that vicinity. So it's quite possible that there had been other types of debris from the proving ground or...
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