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

USAF / The Black Vault · 1995 · 882 pages · text by 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. 190 …Well, Boford was Navy, that was the Navy... Q: Like taking a Pi Ball reading now…
  • p. 191 …fabricate balloons for us. During that period we heard of the Navy project that was going…
  • p. 207 …But were any of those used as precursors to Mogul or... A: None whatsoever. That was…
  • p. 270 …Ewing had conducted considerable research for the Navy during World War II, studying, among other things…
  • p. 323 …f) Measurements of actual sound channel transmission using a small stratosphere balloon carrying sound receivers and…
  • p. 657 …At the present time this company cannot supply us with balloons until Navy clearance is obtained…
  • p. 693 …for six hours using a non-extensible envelope with the addition of a ballast valve to…
  • p. 704 …Met Gifford who has 90' sea rescue boat this project is planning to use. Stayed at…
  • p. 705 …Wyckoff, Hungerfield, Vaux and myself regarding Navy participation with us in Crossroads. Captain Kellogg of Weather…
  • p. 718 …Schneider up with O'Day to check use as NYU station. Alamoggrdo crew helped get helium…
My opinion is that the background noise will not be seriously high unless normal traffic begins to reach such heights that it will create the same type of disturbance as the projectiles which we are considering.

f) Measurements of actual sound channel transmission using a small stratosphere balloon carrying sound receivers and a radio for transmission of sound signals to a recording station should be the next step in this investigation.

## VII CONCLUSIONS

it is my opinion that the stratosphere sound channel should be investigated, for it has the potentiality of military importance. I believe that its military importance depends greatly upon secrecy and that the investigation should be started in a quiet way, restricting knowledge of the purpose of the work to the smallest possible group.

## VIII REFERENCES

1. Interim Report No. 1 Long Range Sound Transmission, by Maurice Lwing and J. L. Korzel, Contract NObs-2083, Bureau of Ships, Navy Department, 1945.

2. Handbuch der Experimentalphysik, by C. Meisser, pp 211-251, XXV, 5 Teil Luftseismik, Hien & Harms, Lolpsig, 1930.

3. Theory of Sound, by Lord Kayleigh, vol. II, pp. 316-17, Macmillan & Co., London, 1826.

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