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The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert

USAF / The Black Vault · 1995 · 882 pages · text by GLM-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. 15 …Ramey Col William H. Blanchard Maj Gen Clements McMullen Brig Gen Donald N. Yates Albert P…
  • p. 26 …Similarly, two authors, William L. Moore and Charles Berlitz, also engaged in research which led them…
  • p. 28 …The Roswell Incident (1980) by William Moore and Charles Berlitz; "Crashed Saucers: Evidence in Search of…
  • p. 174 …incident" (it was in about 1980 that William Moore contacted me and asked questions about balloons…
  • p. 182 …the books that have been written by William Moore, and Randall Schmidt, and others, a lot…
  • p. 227 …One thing I should mention is that after I had visited from William Moore around '80…
  • p. 664 …Elec. Engineering, Brooklyn Polytechnic & NYU Charles B. Moore Jr. Research Engineer Former weather equipment officer, Army…
  • p. 749 …Charles B. Moore, Project Engineer and James R. Smith, Project Meteorologist Approved by: William D. Murray…

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I. The following new men were employed on the Balloon Project during May:

Name	Duties	Qualifications
J. Richard Smith	Meteorologist(full time)	Former Weather Bureau and Army forecaster.Taught weather equipment at New York University,M.S. in Physics-Meteorology,NYU.
William O. Davis	Balloon Performance Analyst(part time)	B.A. Physics, New York University.Former AAF pilot.Graduate student in Physics.
Fred Barker(rehired)	Equipment Construction(part time)	Undergraduate Aeronautical Engineering Student.

II. The following administrative action was taken during the month of May:

A bid was obtained from Skinner, Cook, & Babcock, Contractors, at 60 E. 42d Street, New York City, for the erection of a prefabricated building for the Balloon Project. The quotation of $4,000 was forwarded to Watson Laboratories.

Correspondence during this period was as follows:

Date of correspondence	Address	Abstract	Answer
5/2/47	WIRE
Dr. Frank Myers
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, Pa.	Use of football bield requested for balloon launching on 6 May.	Granted.
5/5/47	WIRE
Same	Bad weather postponed flight until 9 May.	None needed.
5/6/47	Kellman Instrument Div.
Square D Co.
Elmhurst, L.I.
Att: Paul Goudy	Request for quotation on diaphragm seal-off for dribler and for increased quantity of modified dribblers.	Furnished.

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