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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…
Q: But he wasn't launching balloons.

A: He wasn't launching balloons.

Q: So where did they get the equipment to take this picture? Did you leave equipment behind?

A: This is right outside of the hangar.

Q: Those are your people?

A: It's our equipment and my stepladder.

Q: Did you leave equipment there?

A: Yes. Everything

Q: Because you expected to return.

A: We were just going back...

Q: It looked pretty tricky. How did they know how to do that?

A: I just don't know anything about the hierarchy above us. I do know that I worked carefully with a guy named Larry Dyvad, a pilot, who later became a private pilot, running a fixed base operation in Alamagordo, and got killed 20 years ago. But I know I worked with Larry Dyvad whose name you'll see here. I don't remember Pritchard at all, but Dyvad was my contact with the radar. I know they didn't have balloons or anything else, yet they talk about boiling balloons there.

Q: So when you returned in September, did you see that somebody had tampered with your equipment and used up some of your balloons?

A: If it did, it didn't ring a bell.

Q: And no one mentioned it to you. No one said hey, look, we had to do something while you were gone.

A: I think we were just some ignorant, little innocent graduate student contractors on a military base, and things were going on that we didn't know anything about.

Q: So no one approached you to say they had used some of your equipment?

A: Not at all.

Q: This photo that's depicted here n the July 10th Alamagordo News, this could have been taken during one of your actual launches versus...

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