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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.
“Headquarters”32 pages
- p. 3 # THE ROSWELL REPORT
# Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert
Headquarters United States Air Force…
- p. 8 Clinical Investigations and Life Sciences Division, Headquarters Air Force Medical Operating Agency, Bolling AFB, DC; John…
- p. 25 …the disc had been "flown to higher headquarters." That same story also reported that a Roswell…
- p. 27 …These locations include Fort Worth, Texas, the home of the Eighth Air Force Headquarters; possibly Sandia…
- p. 61 # DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
MEMORANDUM FOR SAF/AA
FROM: AF…
- p. 65 …DuBose says officials at the Headquarters of the Eighth Air Force were directed to tell the…
- p. 70 # DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WASHINGTON DC
MEMORANDUM FOR SAF/AAZ…
- p. 86 HEADQUARTERS
509TH BOMB GP (VH)
ROSSELL AFFY AIR FIELD
ROSSELL, NEW MEXICO
GENERAL ORDERS)
NUMBER 9…
- p. 87 …Arner per Paragraph 3, Special Order, #139, Headquarters, Roswell Army Air Field, dated 18 July 1947…
- p. 89 …Arner per paragraph 3, SO #139, Headquarters, this station, dated 18 July 1947. 1st Lt. Lewis…
- p. 90 …Colonel Loberg, Headquarters, Eighth Air Force, arrived this date to coordinate with S-3 and check…
- p. 91 …Boatright, Headquarters, Eighth Air Force, arrived to coordinate with Statistical Control on cost analysis.
16 July…
- p. 110 # HEADQUARTERS, ARMY AIR FORCES WASHINGTON
SUBJECT: Issuance of Orders
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Commanding General Air Material Command…
- p. 119 …where we haven't squadron or group headquarters should take their people away.
1:55 P…
- p. 131 …I did not make a report of this incident to my headquarters since I felt that…
- p. 136 …700 CIC was the CIC Headquarters.
- p. 137 …700 CIC was the Headquarters?
SC: Yes, I don't think I even made a report…
- p. 138 …I think this was taken at the Headquarters at Carswell.
RW: Yeah, that's right. That…
- p. 139 …I took it to 8th Air Force Headquarters, General Ramey was excited; they were going to…
- p. 148 …I don't even want 700 CIC Headquarters to know we wasted our time on it…
- p. 149 …And if anybody from headquarters CIC came in I'm positive they would have checked in…
- p. 192 …I was assigned, believe it or not, to Headquarters, Air Force... I still have the Headquarters…
- p. 230 …on the basis of orders out of Headquarters Army Air Force.
Q: While you were operating…
- p. 231 …These are the pictures taken in General Ramey's office, 8th Air Force Headquarters by a…
- p. 246 …Then after I left the headquarters of ARDC in Baltimore, I spent four years at the…
- p. 269 …debris be flown to Eighth Air Force Headquarters at Fort Worth AAF, TX, for his personal…
- p. 278 …Andrews AAF was headquarters of the Army Air Forces Weather Service. It is also interesting to…
- p. 306 …this local headquarters of the AMC under the Walton Laboratories group, who have headquarters at Red…
- p. 325 HEADQUARTERS FITZWILLIAM FORWARD c/o Commander, Task Group 7.2 APO 187, c/o Postmaster San…
- p. 327 …Reports of results were made to Headquarters FITZWILLIAM FORWARD and to AFMSW-1.
Results of the…
- p. 855 …Brady, all from Headquarters. Eighth Air Force, arrived here for a conference and inspecting and coordination…
- p. 873 …Marcellus Duffy eliminated it and several others from the project when Headquarters U.S. Army Air…
needed than before, due to the hiring of more personnel. The joint laboratory and office which this project shares with another is highly inadequate for six men of theirs and eleven of ours -- a total of 17 men in a space approximately 15x15 feet.
## d. Methods of Attack
Until plastic balloons can be obtained, we will continue to fly clusters of meteorological balloons.
## Apparatus and Equipment
The only substantial change in equipment during the period covered by this report, other than general strengthening of flying lines, is the addition of a new main sand ballast dropping device to the equipment train of the flights to be made at Alamogordo.
The device consists of a nest of eight plastic tubes each filled with dry sand and sealed on the bottom with a sturdy paper membrane. At the bottom of each tube, resting against the membrane, is a small detonating squib of sufficient force to rupture the paper and permit the sand to fall. Each squib is connected to a different lead on the baro-switch of a radio-sonde modulator, so that a predetermined weight of sand may be released at eight predetermined altitudes. A small wire "shelf" is placed over the commutator of the modulator in such a way that the pin arm is lifted clear of the contacts during ascent and permitted to drop into place at an altitude above that of the highest firing contact. This is designed to prevent the firing of squibs and consequent dropping of ballast during ascent.
## f. Conclusions and Recommendations
It is felt that the use of freely extensible meteorological balloons is unsatisfactory for any final solution of our problem because of their inherent instability and the rapid deterioration of neoprene rubber under the rays of the sun. It is felt that cluster flights of these balloons are a purely stop-gap method of floating Watson Laboratories equipment until plastic non-extensible balloons can be obtained and tested.
The need for greater work space is becoming increasingly urgent as new personnel are added to the project and the extent of the work grows.
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