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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. 704 …Saw Bob Foster 731, also on way to NYC April 8 Mon. Arrived NYC 730 am…
  • p. 705 …I caught 550 train out of Penn Station to Red Bank, NJ April 29 Mon. Up…
  • p. 706 …1130 pm Owl to NYC May 6 Mon. Caught 625 train out of Penn Station to…
  • p. 707 Dec 2 Mon. Cakhurst. Cold wave hit about midnight - temperature down to $ 1 5^{\circ} $ - strong…
  • p. 708 …Dec 23 Mon. Oakhurst. Worked on Alamogordo and Flight 13. Had flight # 14 this pm. - 24…
  • p. 709 …Jan 13 Mon. Oakhurst. Working on sky wave curves. Made plans for Alamogordo this Thursday Jan…
  • p. 710 …Arrived AP about 1230 Feb 3 Mon Oakhurst. Peoples in Washington regarding balloon ascention in June…
  • p. 711 …Feb 24 Mon. Alamogordo. Waited for air transportation today but none available and may not be…
  • p. 712 …In Asbury Park 3 pm March 10 Mon Oakhurst. Vivian and I worked on Flight 25…
  • p. 713 …Cleaned out hanger and emptied trash out at East White Sands April 7 Mon Talked to…
  • p. 714 …April 21 Mon. Alamogordo Air Base. Bill Edmonston and I went out to Tularosa Range and…
  • p. 715 …May 19 Mon Reynolds and I left about 0946. May 19 Mon Reynolds and I left…
  • p. 716 …May 26 Mon. Worked on Tests 1 and 2 records today. No signals from Roswell - some…
  • p. 717 …Took Ireland, Mears, Winton, Olsen to Alamogordo to catch train this pm June 9 Mon. Bill…
  • p. 718 …July 7 (Mon) Alamogordo. Balloon Flight 11 A off at 0503. Big plastic with small auxiliary…
  • p. 719 …Aug 4 Mon. Up to Oakhurst. Hunt Aug 4 Mon. Up to Oakhurst. Went over developments…
This could provide up to 40 hours of pressure-time data if recovered. At present, about 60 percent of the flights have been recovered.

2. The adoption of a time-interval or Olland-cycle radiosonde system for telemetering pressure data.

3. Expansion of the network of ground tracking stations equipped with SCR-658 direction finding sets to increase reception of data telemetered. Figure 18 shows the area to the east of Alamogordo, New Mexico, and the probable boundaries of flight paths following release from the Alamogordo Army Air Base. Table III shows the prevailing wind data on which these probable boundaries are based. Also shown in Figure 18 are the desirable locations for SCR-658 sets and the overlap of reception ranges which could be expected, using stations at Alamogordo, Roswell, New Mexico; Hobbs, N.Mex; and Big Springs, Texas.

TABLE III

AVERAGE WIND INTENSITIES IN BEAUFORT SCALE AND WIND DIRECTIONS AT ELEVATIONS TO 10,000 METERS FOR NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER 1944 AND 19

	Year	Surface	1,500M	3,000M	5,000M	10,000M
El Paso	1944	N-3	NE-1	WSW-5	W-7	--
1945	N-3	WSW-3	WSW-5	W-7	--
Roswell	1944	S-1	WNW-3	W-4	--	--
1945	S-3	SW-1	WNW-5	W-7	--
Albuquerque	1944	SE-3	--	W-3	W-6	W-9
1945	N-3	--	WNW-5	W-8	W-9
Amarillo	1944	SSW-4	W-4	WSW-5	W-7	WSW-11
1945	SW-4	SW-4	W-6	WNW-9	--
Big Spring	1944	--	WSW-4	WNW-4	W-7	WSW-9
1945	--	SW-3	W-6	WNW-7	--
Abilene	1944	--	--	--	--	--
1945	--	--	--	--	W-10

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