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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: Is that so? I don't remember. I simply don't remember. But if the chart says that, I'll go along with the chart. Q: Major W. D. Pritchard. On July 10th in the Alamagordo newspaper, there's an article where it shows, it doesn't say when this was taken, but it says a Major Pritchard and his balloon group are demonstrating to reporters what these balloons and the various radar reflectors look like. Now, Charlie Moore took a look at that and said, "I don't recall there being any other balloon group in New Mexico or in that area at the same time we were there." A: I think Charlie's right. I don't recall any either. Q: So we were trying to figure out whether Major Pritchard was maybe a counterintelligence type person or whether he was there reviewing the security procedures, or maybe he was there for promulgating the cover story of weather balloon and weather research so that MOGUL would not come out in the open. The article in the paper talks about the use of reflectors for tracking purposes—the radar reflectors for tracking purposes—but it never comes out talking about MOGUL and the instrumentation that you all were using for nuclear detection or the tests that were being conducted. A: Could Major Pritchard have been attached to or some way connected with the base weather station at Alamagordo? Q: Well, sir, we don't know, but he is identified in that newspaper article as being a public information officer. When we traced that name back to your organization, we thought he may have been essentially undercover himself. We don't know if that's the same person, even though it's the same name. A: I'm afraid I can't offer any positive knowledge here. Q: Were you associated with any counterintelligence people in Watson Labs or... A: Not to my knowledge. If some were around, they were spoofing me because I didn't know it. Q: Were there any other types of intelligence persons on your staff or the staff of Watson Laboratories? A: Not to my knowledge. Q: So the only people you had were actually civilian researchers... A: And a few military officers, yes. Q: Signal Corps and Army Air Force? A: All the officers that I had on my staff were Air Force. I had no Signal Corps people at all.
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