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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.

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“Blanchard”20 pages

  • p. 15 …Gen Roger M. Ramey Col William H. Blanchard Maj Gen Clements McMullen Brig Gen Donald N…
  • p. 33 …Additionally, this history showed that the 509th Commander, Colonel Blanchard, went on leave on July 8…
  • p. 34 the supposed first ever recovery of extraterrestrial materials. (Detractors claim Blanchard did this as a ploy…
  • p. 43 …Additionally, it seems that there was overreaction by Colonel Blanchard and Major Marcel in originally reporting…
  • p. 65 …William Blanchard, the Public Information Officer, Walter G. Haut, issued a news release that the Amry…
  • p. 87 …on 8 July 1947. Colonel W. H. Blanchard, Commanding Officer went on leave. Lt Colonel Charles…
  • p. 88 …Colonel Oliver LaFarge, Air Reserve Corps, at Santa Fe, made arrangements for Colonel Blanchard to visit…
  • p. 89 …Colonel Blanchard spoke on the future of the Air Force, and the talk was very well…
  • p. 135 …Colonel Blanchard. RW: Oh yeah. Excuse me, Colonel Blanchard. SC: He was the Wing Commander of…
  • p. 138 …The first picture is actually with Jesse Marcel and that's General Blanchard and... SC: I…
  • p. 143 …Colonel William Blanchard and the other officer suggested that Marcel and CIC agent accompanied Brazel to…
  • p. 145 …O.K. "Blanchard, who was still at the base...ordered Marcel to accompany the rancher back…
  • p. 147 …Albuquerque rather than Fort Worth and although Blanchard outranked the CIC agent (meaning yourself) a phone…
  • p. 154 …time and we don't know if Blanchard knew about that or not: (we don't…
  • p. 155 …crash at the request of Marcel; maybe Blanchard, and I probably took Rickett with me. We…
  • p. 160 …The things that Ramey and Blanchard used to! Blanchard came over to the Philippines. I think…
  • p. 219 …What about then Colonel Blanchard and General Ramey? Do you think they may have had any…
  • p. 855 ## CHAPTER XIII # VISITORS and EXECUTIVE CALENDAR 3 September 1947 - Colonel Blanchard and Lt. Haut went to…
  • p. 864 …Roger M. Ramey and Col. William H. Blanchard. Brig. Gen. Roger M. Ramey was the Commanding…
  • p. 865 …As commander of Roswell Army Airfield and the 509th Bomb Group, Blanchard is alleged to have…
The following is a list of equipment needed for launching of a single flight of this type:

## (a) Launching Equipment:

1 ea.set instructions (Operations Manual)

2 ea. elliptical shot bags (each filled with 100# of shot)

1 ea. 40' x6' Ground Cloth

4 ea. sheets polyethylene, .001" to .004", 4' x 4'

1 ea. gas tank manifold with pressure gages and valve

1 ea. rubber hose, 1" I.D.,10' long with diffuser

1 ea. rubber tubing 1/2" bore, 1/8" wall, 8" long

1 ea. solution balance

1 ea. inflation nozzle, ML-196 for rubber balloons

1 ea. tool kit complete with 2 sheath knives, 50' cloth measuring tape, brass wire, 1" Mystic tape, volt ohmmeter, pliers, screwdrivers, inflation tools, flashlights, crescent wrenches, soldering iron, compass, 2 open-end wrenches, 1-1/8" x 1-1/4" openings, 14" pipe wrench, spanner for helium tank valves, etc.

1 ea. theodolite ML-247 with tripod ML-78 (optional)

1 ea. recorder, brush oscillograph or other with amplifier.

1 ea. SCR-658 radio direction finder

1 ea. chronometer

## (b) Flight Equipment:

2 to 5 tanks helium

1 ea. balloon

2 ea. rolls acetate fiber scotch tape

1 ea. appendix stiffeners (if appendix is to be used)

500# test nylon line

75# test linen twine

2 ea. 350 gram balloon ML-131A (for wind sock)

5 to 10 toggles or hooks

1 ea. radio transmitter

1 ea. pressure sensor (and temperature if desired)

Payload instrumentation

1 ea. banner, 3' x 6'

Data sheets

Weight sheets

Reward tags (English, Spanish or other language)

## (c) Termination Equipment

1 ea. flight termination switch

1 ea. set rip rigging

2 ea. cannons

2 ea. squibs (treated for high altitude)

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