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The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert

USAF / The Black Vault · 1995 · 882 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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.

  • p. 65 …He brought some of this material to the attention of Chaves County Sheriff George Wilcox, who…
  • p. 308 …here he went to see sheriff George Wilcox and "whispered kind a confidential like" that he…

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When the civilians and personnel from Roswell AAF (Marcel, Cavitt, and Rickett) "stumbled" upon the highly classified project and collected the debris, no one at Roswell had a "need to know" about information concerning MOGUL. This fact, along with the initial misidentification and subsequent rumors that the "capture" of a "flying disc" occurred, ultimately left many people with unanswered questions that have endured to this day.

## JAMES McANDREW, 1st Lt, USAFR Declassification and Review Officer SAF/AAZD

Attachments:

1. 4 Photographs of Balloon Debris

2. Organizational Chart—Watson Laboratories

3. Drawing—New York University Flight No.2

4. 2 Depictions of AN/CRT-1 Sonabuoy

5. Drawing of Corner Reflector

6. New York University Technical Report No.1, Table VII

7. Map of New Mexico

8. Typical Employment of Weather Balloon and Corner Reflector

9. Project MOGUL Classification Letter

10. Drawing of "Hieroglyphics" by Prof. C.B. Moore

11. Alamogordo Daily News Article

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