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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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  • p. 35 …a thick, foil like metallic gray substance; a brittle, brownish-black plasticlike material, like Bakelite; and…
  • p. 40 …the ruptured and shredded neoprene would "almost look like dark gray or black flakes or ashes…
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  • p. 206 …There's a gray area here. I was certainly aware that what we were doing in…
  • p. 308 …The rubber was smoky gray in color and scattered over an area about 200 yards in…
16 March 1994

MEMORANDUM FOR AFOSI/HO

FROM: SAF/AAZ 1720 Air Force Pentagon Washington DC 20330-1720

SUBJECT: GAO Review on Records Management Procedures Dealing with Weather Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents (GAO Code 701034) - ACTION MEMORANDUM

Reference: SAF/AA 1 Mar 94 Memorandum w/atch, Subj, same as above

SAF/AAZ has taken the lead for the Air Force in providing the GAO with all pertinent records and information related to the above subject. Part of this review will involve retrieving records, histories, reports of investigations, etc. related to sightings of unknown aerial objects/phenomena.

To insure that we have searched all applicable document holdings, request you research AFOSI histories for any records that might be relevant to the GAO review. Such records might have been created prior to the formal establishment of AFOSI, e.g., AAF/CIC or USA/CID records. Request you limit your search to holdings within your purview for the period Jan 1947 through Dec 1953.

Please contact me or Lt Col Butler at (703) 693-2013 if there are any questions on this subject.

RICHARD L WEAVER, Col, USAF Director for Security and Special Program Oversight SAF/AAZ

1 Attachment: SAF/AA 1 Mar Memorandum

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