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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.
“Blanchard”20 pages
diameter General Mills balloons. We had a very successful set of balloon launches in Alamagordo in September of '47. My only guess is trying to have a down-wind receiving station. Q: There are some other names mentioned that I can't recall. Q: What about then Colonel Blanchard and General Ramey? Do you think they may have had any knowledge of what your ultimate purpose was? A: I think not. I want to say something about Colonel J.D. Ryan. He was Chief of Staff of the Air Force later, but "Dr. Peoples, Murray Hackman, and First Lieutenant Thompson from Air Material Command, were out at the field to inspect Air Material Command installations and to confer with LTC Briley." Well, well. Hackman was one of our radiosonde operators. There's Colonel John D. Ryan right there. That's interesting. On the morning of this famous press release, July 8th, in The Roswell Daily Dispatch, there is a statement about a flying disc being identified, and Colonel J.D. Ryan who is on the staff of 8th Air Force said that the Air Force was now using radar targets to measure winds aloft in some stations. I find that of interest because apparently in reading some of the various things that happened in General Ramey's office, apparently someone that afternoon did think this was a radar target that had been brought in. But the Roswell morning paper clearly showed that there was a knowledgeable person in Fort Worth. Q: Is that in the article, the 8 July article, that Ryan made the statement? A: Yes. Maybe not the article you're talking about. Q: Is this the one that William Haut... A: No, this is that morning, not that afternoon. (Pause to look for clipping) There's Newt Goldenberg, you mentioned him earlier in one of our conversations. That's one of our altitude controls. Here's the morning paper, "Report flying disc found." Down here is about Colonel J.D. Ryan, and he mentioned the existence of radar wind measuring equipment in the Air Force. If you want a copy of that... Q: Then there's, subsequently, no mention of the radar targets until General Ramey discusses it on the 9th, talking about the material being a balloon.
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