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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.
“Fort Worth”30 pages
- p. 12 …Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July 9, 1947
17. Statement, Lt. Col. Sheridan…
- p. 13 …Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July 9, 1947
2. Organizational Chart, Watson Laboratories…
- p. 27 …These locations include Fort Worth, Texas, the home of the Eighth Air Force Headquarters; possibly Sandia…
- p. 31 …DC; Federal Records Center, Ft Worth, TX; the INSCOM Archives, Fort Meade, MD; National Air and…
- p. 35 …in the famous photos (Atch 16) in Fort Worth was that of a radar target normally…
- p. 36 …were told was a flying saucer to Fort Worth. The people on board included...and Maj…
- p. 37 …Newton was a weather officer assigned to Fort Worth, who was on duty when the Roswell…
- p. 42 …photographs taken at the time by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, that depicted Ramey and Marcel…
- p. 43 …the wreckage prior to its getting to Fort Worth. This organization reported on July 20, 1994…
- p. 47 …After the autopsies, conspiracy theorists said the bodies were flown to Fort Worth and then to…
- p. 65 …to Fort Worth.
"Flying disc." Some of the debris was flown to Fort Worth.
as where…
- p. 84 …Center (WNRC) or the Southwest Regional Depository (Fort Worth, Texas).
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- p. 131 …taken to Eighth Air Force Headquarters in Fort Worth where it was subsequently identified as a…
- p. 138 …And I obviously...Marcel took it to Fort Worth. Yeah that's the...
RW: Yeah. That…
- p. 139 …into Wright-Pat and Kirtland, or to Fort Worth. Back and forth, loaded up, with very…
- p. 145 …Then it said: "After Marcel had gone to Fort Worth and came back Marcel challenged the…
- p. 147 …O.K."Marcel would take some of the sample to Fort Worth to show Ramey. In…
- p. 150 normal course of his duty was sent to Washington not 8th Air Force in Fort Worth…
- p. 219 …But the Roswell morning paper clearly showed that there was a knowledgeable person in Fort Worth…
- p. 231 …Headquarters by a news photographer of the Fort Worth Star Telegram. It's four pictures that…
- p. 263 …I was the only weather forecaster on duty in the Fort Worth base weather and flight…
- p. 269 …flown to Eighth Air Force Headquarters at Fort Worth AAF, TX, for his personal inspection. Upon…
- p. 277 …Before the announcement was made, the "disc" was flown to Fort Worth AAF, at the direction…
- p. 278 …giant thermos jug" was allegedly transported from Fort Worth AAF to Wright Field. $ ^{38} $ This description…
- p. 280 designs on it." $ ^{41} $ Furthermore, the Fort Worth Army Airfield Weather Officer, Irving Newton, who was…
- p. 283 1
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Photographs of Balloon Debris
July 9, 1947
- p. 549 …Similarly, the Fort Worth Sub-Committee established a procedure for flights made within the Fort Worth…
- p. 616 …Air Coordinating Committee, Fort Worth Regional Airspace Subcommittee. Subject: Obstructions to air navigation...43
5. Memorandum…
- p. 655 …5/15/47 Office of the Secretary Fort Worth Sub-Committee on Air Space Civil Aeronautics…
- p. 715 …Arrived in Fort Worth about 9 EDST. Off again to Big Springs, Texas, where forced to…
A: You're right.
Q: This has it coming down northwest.
A: What's the origin of this?
Q: It's in the back of one of the reports.
A: It looks to me like it may have been out of this report.
Q: Not every report had this graphic depiction like this which was number eight.
(Pause to look through documents)
A: With those numbers it wouldn't have been in that first report because these flights were much later.
Q: Technical Report No.1.
A: Right. And Flight 58 and 55 aren't going to be in that early report. They occurred after that report was written.
(Pause)
A: I would say what was in that first report is more accurate than this. This, I think, occurred after I left NYU. It's a general summary. Flight 11 was a very important flight. They got very important data on it -- Crary and Peoples.
Q: Spilhaus based his article from Journal of Meteorology on it.
A: Right, and he wrote a paper in the bulletin. The fact that the balloon trajectory has this hook in it when it went over the mountain ridge...
Q: That's obviously the [ano-cyclonic] winds aloft.
A: Exactly. So he and Bernard Harwitz were very excited about the fact that the balloon at nominal constant level, had a change in direction when the air was forced over the mountain barrier, and they published a special paper on that. So everybody was happy with this flight.
As soon as that flight was made, that was the 7th, and we went home on the 8th.
Q: That would be the reason why there would be no one there in the area who could explain this debris that was brought in. There were no experts there who dealt with this particular type of material or radar reflectors.
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