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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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flying saucers. I did get a letter back from Ro to the response that he had not been, as far as she knew, he had not been involved in any classified identification of something. That had occurred to me that things could have gone on that I had no need to know. I tried to extract that. Q: So you had no recollection or strong recollection of him, when you got back to New Jersey, discussing it. It caused a lot of fuss. A: I'm really surprised at this newspaper story because implicit in this is the idea that someone provided a good cover for us, and yet Crary's diary doesn't show that he was involved in it, and I wasn't aware that my contact, Dyvad, was privy enough to our operations to have carried this out. So this is a bit of a mystery to me. Q: What would you speculate, how would someone, just circumstances, coincidences, or intentional? A: It's very clear that it was intentional, and there was a better security operation going on than I appreciated at the time. That would be my assessment. Q: So you believe that someone was privy to your activities... A: Trakowski was there. I had forgotten, but he reminded me that he had gone on the C-54 to pick up the helium at Amarillo. I asked Trakowski had he been involved in manufacturing a cover story. He kept saying how important Mogul was, how highly classified it was, and how he was really wheeling and dealing. He apparently went down to Fort Bliss, to the commanding general there -- I guess he was a captain at the time -- and had no trouble talking the general into releasing something like maybe several hundred 500 pound bombs for this. At the same time, Trakowski has no memory of a coverup. Q: He didn't have participation. A: Whether he was on that C-54 that had 23 people on it or not, I don't know. Crary's list of the people left, there was only one military type, a Lieutenant Thompson, in what you have here. Q: Who did you report to? A: Peoples. Q: Then getting back to talking about quarters and things like that, did you have to go introduce yourself to the commanding officer at the base, or...
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