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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. 8 …David Thurston, Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs Office; Dr. Saxson and Betsy Hudon of…
  • p. 30 …XOW, Directorate of Weather (g) added later The Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) In…
  • p. 68 …Ruppelt was the UFO study project officer from 1951-1953 and he investigated a series of…
  • p. 95 …These records contain documents on investigative policy and Air Force Office of Special Investigation reports of…
  • p. 262 …of criminal activity which may require investigative action by commanders, supervisor, security police, AFOSI special agents…
  • p. 263 …Rogan who advised me, he was assisting in an investigation at the behest of the Secretary…
  • p. 314 …Lt Colonel Maas was assigned as Base Weather Officer and as head of the E&A…
Flight 103: Released from Alamogordo, New Mexico, 1015 MST, February 4, 1949 Recovered at Mountain View, Oklahoma

On Flight 103 a B-17 airplane was used to follow the balloon, homing in on the signal from the AM-1 transmitter with the radio compass. There were few clouds over the first section of the balloon's path, and very exact positioning was obtainable. The compass needle reversed almost immediately, and no cone of silence was found when the plane passed beneath the balloon. The fixes indicated on the trajectory (Figure 52) show how exactly the path of the balloon may be determined when tracked in such a manner.

Figure 52

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