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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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Q: The New York University reports are very voluminous. There are three big bound volumes. I have the originals with your signature. A: You're making my point, that there probably wasn't any other nearby radiosonde station for us to receive things. I'd forgotten all about Big Springs, but I'm sure we made every effort we could to get radiosonde reception. Q: Can you think of, just in general, any other explanation for what became the so-called Roswell incident, other than what we've discussed here as far as potentially your balloon project, which at that time was a very secretive project. Is there any other explanation you can think of? A: No, and the particulars of this case are sufficiently nearly unique, that I think no one else had anything that could have fit into providing these results. No, we were doing something that was unorthodox, using targets that, as far as I know, had not been flown before in New Mexico. There's no way that the rancher could have ever seen one. And there's no way that either Major Marcel nor General Ramey or General Ramey's people could have come up with providing a radar to substitute for the real debris. I think there's a very high likelihood that the unusual things we were doing provided this debris. However, all the other stuff that's in, and a lot of the material, I can't explain bodies or material that can't be [folded] by a sledge hammer. Q: Let's dwell on the bodies just for a second here. It turns out that during this time frame, 1947, 1948, 1949, there were numerous aircraft accidents, a lot of fatal aircraft accidents, in this general vicinity. Did you all ever come across any of those? A: No, sir. ## (END OF SIDE) Q: There was an accident that took place right out of Roswell, a B-29, two B-29 accidents that resulted in fatal crashes. We were wondering if maybe over time people were beginning to think in terms of those fatal accidents, which essentially scattered body parts, small parts, over areas, where people were getting confused with what occurred in those aircraft accidents with the sensationalism of this UFO story. A: As I said in my letter, all of us went back to NYU on the 8th of July and we heard about that afternoon, and we just thought it was one of our balloons. All of us that were in that group have held onto that view for a long time. I do have Crow's letter here. He apparently joined us for that Operation Sandstone pickup crew in '48, but he knew that we knew that we
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