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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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the time, and probably ever. I remained project officer of Project MOGUL through our move of the laboratory from Watson Laboratories at Eatontown, New Jersey, to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and combined my laboratory, which was then known as the Geophysical Research Directorate, with that of John Marchetti's Electronics Research Directorate, and these two components made up the Air Force Cambridge Research Center. I continued in my position of the Director of the geophysics component until May of 1949, when I was relieved of the duty at my own request and returned to school at MIT. Q: Until '49, were you still on Project MOGUL? A: Yes, indeed. And Project MX-968. Q: You were on-site in New Mexico when Charlie Moore was doing most of his work, some of the early launches out of Alamagordo. A: Yes. Jim Peoples and I went down to Alamagordo in early July 1947 to assist and observe the prototype launches being done by Charlie Moore and his crew from New York University. Q: You said you went in July of '47, so you were there only in July. Was that early in July? A: Yes, it was early in July. Again, I think those dates are in this tape of my conversation with Mr. Pflock. It was early in July. The Roswell incident occurred after I returned to Watson Laboratories. I wasn't involved in it at all. Really, the only thing that I knew about it, after it happened, was that Colonel Duffy called me on the telephone from Wright Field and gave me a story about a fellow that had come in from New Mexico, woke him up in the middle of the night, or some such thing, with a handful of debris, and wanted him, Colonel Duffy, to identify it. Q: Did he identify who the person was? A: No, I don't remember the person at all. I don't remember who came from New Mexico, no. Q: Someone came from New Mexico with this debris? A: Yes, I believe that's correct. Q: They came to his quarters? A: Yes, at Wright Field, yes. He had quarters on the base at Wright Field. Q: Was his family there? A: Yes. Q: Did he identify the type of debris?
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