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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. 16 …of alien beings and elusive vehicles which never quite seem to manifest themselves. Regardless of one…
  • p. 28 …Conversely, there has never been any previous documentary evidence produced by those who would debunk the…
  • p. 29 …This had never been officially done before, although most of the persons contacted reported that they…
  • p. 37 …Lt Col Cavitt also stated that he had never taken any oath or signed any agreement…
  • p. 67 …Because this conclusion is based on the absence of documentation, the issue can never be definitively…
  • p. 82 …If written, there is good evidence through accessioning and microfilming records that the Agency never received…
  • p. 84 …histories and supporting documents, and it has never routinely received the kind of records which might…
  • p. 131 …I have never been sworn to any form of secrecy by anyone concerning this matter and…
  • p. 136 …It never crossed my mind that it could be anything but a radio sonde. RW: How…
  • p. 139 …as far as I knew, I never heard anyone say, "Don't talk about this and…
  • p. 140 …I never met LaPaz personally, but I knew what he was. RW: Did Rickett go with…
  • p. 141 …I forget since I was there in the Washington area for awhile but I never did…
  • p. 143 …To the best of my recollection, I never met the rancher, Brazel. RW: O.K., because…
  • p. 144 …I've never seen a Geiger counter myself, but I didn't know if you knew…
  • p. 145 …said you never saw...and then you said you were going to...you never saw the…
  • p. 146 …I never had any idea that it was anything with the V-2. They told us…
  • p. 148 …You and I never saw this. You don't see any military people or military vehicles…
  • p. 149 …said in a facetious way: "Lets make out like it never existed, because we're wasting…
  • p. 150 …to him the crash and recovery had never happened. There was no investigation on the Foster…
  • p. 153 …No, I never saw this. SC: I don't know what that is from. RW: "But…
  • p. 154 …So, some of there records were TS and still are.) That is because they have never…
  • p. 156 …Cav never told me anything. He said I'll never tell you anything then you won…
  • p. 160 …I am quite sure that we never gave it a thought until that book.
  • p. 161 …Now, we have never found the flight records to substantiate that, so I don't know…
  • p. 171 …related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by US Government persons concerning not…
  • p. 175 …related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by US Government persons concerning refraining…
  • p. 179 …We never considered a planned cover story; we were concerned with security. I was the project…
  • p. 180 …I never observed any of the balloon "trains" but I did see some of the early…
  • p. 190 …and subsequent models were brand new, had never flown anything like that in this area. A…
  • p. 193 …I'd never heard the name Mogul -- the classification was that high. I knew what we…
  • p. 205 …I just wanted to see if there had been anything stated to you never to discuss…
  • p. 207 …Yeah, I knew that guy, but I never knew Marcel. Q: So you went, moving into…
  • p. 208 …I've never seen a Japanese balloon that I know of, I've never seen the…
  • p. 211 …No, I've never seen this. Trakowski argued that even the name Mogul was classified, and…
  • p. 214 …Out PM with several NYU men by weapons carrier, but we never located it. Rocket postponed…
  • p. 229 …As far as I know we just never interfaced with the military. Q: Where were you…
  • p. 231 …We never saw anybody in security. There was certainly nobody keeping us secure. If anything, we…
  • p. 237 …who was writing a story, and I never quite could determine whether he was on the…
  • p. 238 …I have never seen such a document nor have I ever heard of any effort to…
  • p. 241 …radar reflectors for tracking purposes—but it never comes out talking about MOGUL and the instrumentation…
  • p. 242 …I never met Richard Robert Crane. I knew him only by the path of debris he…
  • p. 246 …They never said it, but I know they did because they left me free to do…
  • p. 269 …Before now, however, a larger portion of the story was never told. Recent research indicates that…
  • p. 271 …and Project MOGUL as first conceived was never put into operational use. However, MOGUL did serve…
  • p. 272 …Moore, NYU Constant-Level Balloon Project Engineer, stated that they were never informed of the classified…
  • p. 314 …I was never the Holloman Base Weather Officer. Lt Colonel Maas was assigned as Base Weather…
  • p. 477 …automatic ballast controls, and this flight was never recovered. Presumably the marked easterly flow then observed…
  • p. 501 …of efficiency since on-off operation was never permitted. The temperature data of these flights is…
  • p. 648 …The theodolite lost the balloon in clouds earlier and the airplane observer never succeeded in seeing…
  • p. 670 …make model and submit same before quoting. Never heard anything. 1/21/47 Western Products Inc…
  • p. 710 …Recorded at Dona but Phil at Tower site never saw rocket. Waited at Dona until 6…
  • p. 718 …Out pm with several NYU by weapon carrier but we never located it. Rocket postponed until…
  • p. 726 …CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Opinion has been strengthened that clusters of meteorological balloons will never be a…
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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