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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. 190 …Well, Boford was Navy, that was the Navy... Q: Like taking a Pi Ball reading now…
  • p. 191 …fabricate balloons for us. During that period we heard of the Navy project that was going…
  • p. 207 …But were any of those used as precursors to Mogul or... A: None whatsoever. That was…
  • p. 270 …Ewing had conducted considerable research for the Navy during World War II, studying, among other things…
  • p. 323 …f) Measurements of actual sound channel transmission using a small stratosphere balloon carrying sound receivers and…
  • p. 657 …At the present time this company cannot supply us with balloons until Navy clearance is obtained…
  • p. 693 …for six hours using a non-extensible envelope with the addition of a ballast valve to…
  • p. 704 …Met Gifford who has 90' sea rescue boat this project is planning to use. Stayed at…
  • p. 705 …Wyckoff, Hungerfield, Vaux and myself regarding Navy participation with us in Crossroads. Captain Kellogg of Weather…
  • p. 718 …Schneider up with O'Day to check use as NYU station. Alamoggrdo crew helped get helium…
## SUGGESTED READING.

Blue Book Special Report 14 and the Project Sign and Project Grudge reports. These primary documents should have been part of this organization's UFO study files and currently available through the National Archives.

The UFO Controversy in America, David Michael Jacobs. Contains a comprehensive review of documents belonging to this organization's UFO study files.

The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, Edward Ruppelt. Ruppelt was the UFO study project officer from 1951-1953 and he investigated a series of reports from 1947. He found nothing, apparently, about the Roswell incident.

The UFO Experience, J. Allen Hynek. Written by the chief scientific advisor to this organization for UFO studies. Associated with Sign/Grudge/Blue Book from 1948-1969, he found nothing, apparently, about the Roswell incident.

Flying Saucers: Top Secret, Donald Keyhoe. Keyhoe helped establish NICAP and was one of the earliest to allege that the government was withholding UFO "secrets" from the public. He found nothing, apparently, about the Roswell incident.

Flying Saucers and the U.S. Air Force, Lawrence Tacker. States the official Air Force position as of 1960 and includes earlier Air Force statements about UFOs.

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