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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.
“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…
# FOREWORD
This report represents a joint effort by Col. Richard L. Weaver and 1st Lt. James McAndrew to address the request made by Representative Steven H. Schiff (R-NM) for information regarding an alleged crash of an unidentified flying object (UFO) that occurred in the state in 1947. This publication duplicates the information provided to the Secretary of the Air Force and to the General Accounting Office (GAO). It was written as a result of Colonel Weaver's and Lieutenant McAndrew's efforts to locate the records that explain the events of July 1947 leading to what is popularly known as the Roswell Incident. The only information presented here that was not in the report delivered to the Secretary of the Air Force and the GAO is the photograph section. It appears after Colonel Weaver's final attachment, at the very end of this book.
The importance of attachment 32, Lieutenant McAndrew's synopsis, derives from his description of Project MOGUL, the top-priority classified project of balloon-borne experiments, which provides the explanation for the "Roswell Incident." Interest abounds surrounding the UFO wave of 1947 which began in the spring and did not dissipate until fall. Interest in UFOs climaxed during the summer, when multiple sightings of such objects occurred.
RICHARD P. HALLION
Air Force Historian
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