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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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by the government. To date most of this equipment has been received with the exception of the AN/FM-1, SCR-653 and the prefabricated buildings needed for office and storage space. 6. The list of equipment that was submitted to the government consisted of the major items that were necessary. However, because many small hand tools and radio parts and other equipment were needed periodically a petty cash fund of $100 was set up to facilitate purchase of small items. A further request has been submitted to the Chancellor of the University requesting that this petty cash be increased to $200 and that a travel fund of $100 be established. Housing 7. The existing inflation shelter at the school for the Meteorological Department's use was not adequate to handle the large diameter plastic balloons that we plan to use. Therefore a request was submitted and approved by the Contracting Officer for the construction of a 27 ft. cube inflation shelter on the campus of New York University. Due to restrictions placed on us by the Air Space Sub-Committee of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, New York Office, it has since been decided not to erect this inflation shelter in the New York area, but rather to use existing facilities at Lakehurst, New Jersey or Olmstead Field, Middletown, New Jersey. Sub-Contracts 8. Permission was secured from the Contracting Officer of the Watson Laboratories to place two sub-contracts. One was for the fabrication of plastic balloons and was placed with Harold A. Smith Inc., of Mamaroneck, New York. This sub-contract amounted to $7,565. The second sub-contract was placed with Kollsman Instrument Division of
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