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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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A: I think not, because they say, the whole article is this was a demonstration. I would have thought, since Crary was a senior person and he and Peoples, Peoples was our contact with the base. But other than Dyvad, we had no real contact with anyone I remember. I do remember being very disappointed with the radar. Q: If this were a demonstration sometime on the 9th or 10th of July, prior to this being published, they talk in terms here of these radar reflectors. These particular radar reflectors, as having labels on them. The radar reflectors you were using, did they have any type of labels talking about being property of U.S. Army, or Watson Laboratories? A: None that I know of. We were strongly encouraged not to mix in the Air Force with what we did. Everything we did had an NYU label. I may be able to dig back in my file somewhere... Q: So they may have had an NYU label on it. Even the service ones. A: On service, but on radar test flights, there's no way we would have put a label on. Q: Those were just shakedown flights. You were just saying hey, what's going to work best to get the data, so let's use some of the equipment we have and see what works, so you'd have someone on the radar and say yeah, this configuration works, this one doesn't. That's what you were doing. Then later on you refined your technique... A: What we would do is we would put up things and they'd come back and say it didn't work. So we'd scratch our heads and do something else. But we were running that end of the balloon end of the operation. Nobody else was flying balloons around us. There may have been a radiosonde operation out over White Sands, but there was not one, as far as I know, at either Roswell or Alamagordo. If there had, I would have used them because we were using standard AMQ-1... Q: But you did coordinate with Big Spring, Texas. A: Did we? Q: It's in the report, saying you guys, when you came back to New Jersey, you were sending thank you letters to various organizations that helped you while you were in the field. Big Springs, Texas; some other places that you had coordinated with. A: Thank you...
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