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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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“Fort Worth”30 pages

  • p. 12 …Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July 9, 1947 17. Statement, Lt. Col. Sheridan…
  • p. 13 …Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July 9, 1947 2. Organizational Chart, Watson Laboratories…
  • p. 27 …These locations include Fort Worth, Texas, the home of the Eighth Air Force Headquarters; possibly Sandia…
  • p. 31 …DC; Federal Records Center, Ft Worth, TX; the INSCOM Archives, Fort Meade, MD; National Air and…
  • p. 35 …in the famous photos (Atch 16) in Fort Worth was that of a radar target normally…
  • p. 36 …were told was a flying saucer to Fort Worth. The people on board included...and Maj…
  • p. 37 …Newton was a weather officer assigned to Fort Worth, who was on duty when the Roswell…
  • p. 42 …photographs taken at the time by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, that depicted Ramey and Marcel…
  • p. 43 …the wreckage prior to its getting to Fort Worth. This organization reported on July 20, 1994…
  • p. 47 …After the autopsies, conspiracy theorists said the bodies were flown to Fort Worth and then to…
  • p. 65 …to Fort Worth. "Flying disc." Some of the debris was flown to Fort Worth. as where…
  • p. 84 …Center (WNRC) or the Southwest Regional Depository (Fort Worth, Texas). ## Recommendations Because the records management policy…
  • p. 131 …taken to Eighth Air Force Headquarters in Fort Worth where it was subsequently identified as a…
  • p. 138 …And I obviously...Marcel took it to Fort Worth. Yeah that's the... RW: Yeah. That…
  • p. 139 …into Wright-Pat and Kirtland, or to Fort Worth. Back and forth, loaded up, with very…
  • p. 145 …Then it said: "After Marcel had gone to Fort Worth and came back Marcel challenged the…
  • p. 147 …O.K."Marcel would take some of the sample to Fort Worth to show Ramey. In…
  • p. 150 normal course of his duty was sent to Washington not 8th Air Force in Fort Worth…
  • p. 219 …But the Roswell morning paper clearly showed that there was a knowledgeable person in Fort Worth…
  • p. 231 …Headquarters by a news photographer of the Fort Worth Star Telegram. It's four pictures that…
  • p. 263 …I was the only weather forecaster on duty in the Fort Worth base weather and flight…
  • p. 269 …flown to Eighth Air Force Headquarters at Fort Worth AAF, TX, for his personal inspection. Upon…
  • p. 277 …Before the announcement was made, the "disc" was flown to Fort Worth AAF, at the direction…
  • p. 278 …giant thermos jug" was allegedly transported from Fort Worth AAF to Wright Field. $ ^{38} $ This description…
  • p. 280 designs on it." $ ^{41} $ Furthermore, the Fort Worth Army Airfield Weather Officer, Irving Newton, who was…
  • p. 283 1 Fort Worth Star-Telegram Photographs of Balloon Debris July 9, 1947
  • p. 549 …Similarly, the Fort Worth Sub-Committee established a procedure for flights made within the Fort Worth…
  • p. 616 …Air Coordinating Committee, Fort Worth Regional Airspace Subcommittee. Subject: Obstructions to air navigation...43 5. Memorandum…
  • p. 655 …5/15/47 Office of the Secretary Fort Worth Sub-Committee on Air Space Civil Aeronautics…
  • p. 715 …Arrived in Fort Worth about 9 EDST. Off again to Big Springs, Texas, where forced to…
SUMMARY OF HYU CONSTANT - LEVEL BALLoon FLIGHTS

FLIGHT NUMBER	DATA AND PHOTOS	LAUNCHING SITE	DESCRIPTION OF BALLOONS	BALLOON LIGHT	DESCRIPTION OF EQUIPMENT	TOTAL HEIGHT OF BALLOON INCLUSION	DESCRIPTION OF CONTROL	BALLOON HEIGHT	PEAK LIFT	BALLOON LIFT	RADIOSON RECEPTION%	TRACKING%	AIRCRAFT OBSERVATION%	FLIGHT DURATION	OPTIMUM CONSTANCY	MAXIMUM CONSTANT LEVELS MSL	RECOVERY AND LANDING SITE	CRITIQUE
34	29 Nov.19471530 MST	Alamogordo New Mexico	1 GM 2' appendix	4.1kg	Cool water, burnout bar-switch, bal-last assembly, banner	15.6kg	Reservoir #105Automatic ballast valve#107, no manual valve	5.0kg	738g	16.3kg	132min.	658-132min.theodo-lite-79min.Rowell-122min.	None	Unknown	Mining when lost	Unknown	Kent, Texas	Barnout petch activated before release. New balloon filled and flight released with difficulty due to wind shift. Signal strength reduced when balloon moved behind hanger. Cause for end of tracking.
35	1 Dec.19470907 MST	Alamogordo New Mexico	1 GM 2' appendix	4.0kg	Cool water, Ferguson meteorograph, burnout bar-switch, bal-last assembly, banner	15.7kg	Reservoir #111Automatic ballast valve#111, no manual valve	5.0kg	710g	16.4kg	169min.	658-169min.theodo-lite-66min.Rowell-130min.	None	Unknown	32min.at300'	46,000'const.	Not recovered	A constant level flight. No data due to transmitter or battery failure over Roswell.
36	2 Dec.19470924 MST	Alamogordo New Mexico	1 GM 2' appendix	4.3kg	T-69 Watson batteries, burnout bar-switch, GM automatic pilot, banner	12.7kg	GM automatic pilot with Gypsum dune sand ballast	5.6kg	682g	12.3kg	135min.	658-135min.theodo-lite-34min.	Not found by tracking planeB-25	Unknown	Mining when lost	Unknown	Blandinsville,Illi	Flight with General Mills automatic pilot. High winds aloft carried balloon rapidly to MS. Signal lost over Roswell.
37	3 Dec.19471542 MST	Alamogordo New Mexico	1 GM no appendix	4.0kg	T-69, burn-out bar-switch, bal-last assembly	12.8kg	Constant leak,21/2gal.can,manual valve	5.0kg	2040g	14.9kg	28min.100%	658-28min.100%	None	28min.	None	19,300'maximum	Alamogordo New Mexico	Released in rain shower. Burst and fall 8 miles ME of Field due to soaking and rains of tape holding balloon fabric.
38	4 Dec.19470850 MST	Alamogordo New Mexico	1 DAAJ-2000 with xylon shroud	6.6kg	cool water, ballast assembly, banner	10.9kg	Reservoir #1002 manual valves, no automatic valve	3.0kg	484g	11.4kg	80min.67%	658-117min.theodo-lite-91min.plane-117min.100%	lent75%B-25	117min.	None	48,500maximum	50 mi.N of RoswellAM,1047AM,12/4	Neoprene balloon burst in shroud and use observed to parachute down. Tracking by 3,658 receivers and B-25 plane. Balloon heated on radiator 3 days. Filled about 20 hours before release.
39	4 Dec.19471624 MST	Alamogordo New Mexico	1 GM 2' appendix	4.0kg	T-69,Berguson meteorograph, burnout bar-switch, automatic ballast easy.	13.6kg	Reservoir #101,automatic valve#101,no manual valve	5.0kg	648g	14.3kg	40min.100%	658-40min.theodo-lite-40min.100%	None	40min.	None	41,100maximum	3 mi.N of CloudcroftM.N.	Inflection error with resulting high free lift and rate of rise (1000 ft/min) caused balloon to burst at pressure altitude. Fall in mountains near Cloudcroft. Recovery not attempted. Strong signals received by 658's at Alamogordo, Roswell and Hobbs.

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