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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.
“Fort Worth”30 pages
- p. 12 …Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July 9, 1947
17. Statement, Lt. Col. Sheridan…
- p. 13 …Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July 9, 1947
2. Organizational Chart, Watson Laboratories…
- p. 27 …These locations include Fort Worth, Texas, the home of the Eighth Air Force Headquarters; possibly Sandia…
- p. 31 …DC; Federal Records Center, Ft Worth, TX; the INSCOM Archives, Fort Meade, MD; National Air and…
- p. 35 …in the famous photos (Atch 16) in Fort Worth was that of a radar target normally…
- p. 36 …were told was a flying saucer to Fort Worth. The people on board included...and Maj…
- p. 37 …Newton was a weather officer assigned to Fort Worth, who was on duty when the Roswell…
- p. 42 …photographs taken at the time by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, that depicted Ramey and Marcel…
- p. 43 …the wreckage prior to its getting to Fort Worth. This organization reported on July 20, 1994…
- p. 47 …After the autopsies, conspiracy theorists said the bodies were flown to Fort Worth and then to…
- p. 65 …to Fort Worth.
"Flying disc." Some of the debris was flown to Fort Worth.
as where…
- p. 84 …Center (WNRC) or the Southwest Regional Depository (Fort Worth, Texas).
## Recommendations
Because the records management policy…
- p. 131 …taken to Eighth Air Force Headquarters in Fort Worth where it was subsequently identified as a…
- p. 138 …And I obviously...Marcel took it to Fort Worth. Yeah that's the...
RW: Yeah. That…
- p. 139 …into Wright-Pat and Kirtland, or to Fort Worth. Back and forth, loaded up, with very…
- p. 145 …Then it said: "After Marcel had gone to Fort Worth and came back Marcel challenged the…
- p. 147 …O.K."Marcel would take some of the sample to Fort Worth to show Ramey. In…
- p. 150 normal course of his duty was sent to Washington not 8th Air Force in Fort Worth…
- p. 219 …But the Roswell morning paper clearly showed that there was a knowledgeable person in Fort Worth…
- p. 231 …Headquarters by a news photographer of the Fort Worth Star Telegram. It's four pictures that…
- p. 263 …I was the only weather forecaster on duty in the Fort Worth base weather and flight…
- p. 269 …flown to Eighth Air Force Headquarters at Fort Worth AAF, TX, for his personal inspection. Upon…
- p. 277 …Before the announcement was made, the "disc" was flown to Fort Worth AAF, at the direction…
- p. 278 …giant thermos jug" was allegedly transported from Fort Worth AAF to Wright Field. $ ^{38} $ This description…
- p. 280 designs on it." $ ^{41} $ Furthermore, the Fort Worth Army Airfield Weather Officer, Irving Newton, who was…
- p. 283 1
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Photographs of Balloon Debris
July 9, 1947
- p. 549 …Similarly, the Fort Worth Sub-Committee established a procedure for flights made within the Fort Worth…
- p. 616 …Air Coordinating Committee, Fort Worth Regional Airspace Subcommittee. Subject: Obstructions to air navigation...43
5. Memorandum…
- p. 655 …5/15/47 Office of the Secretary Fort Worth Sub-Committee on Air Space Civil Aeronautics…
- p. 715 …Arrived in Fort Worth about 9 EDST. Off again to Big Springs, Texas, where forced to…
## III g) Conclusions and Recommendations.
It is believed that a balloon can be kept at nominal constant altitude between 10 and 20 km. for six hours using a non-extensible envelope with the addition of a ballast valve to keep the balloon near its pressure altitude. The flying of a balloon thus equipped is our main objective. The work to date has been primarily preparatory but it is believed that plastic balloons can be flown in the early summer with a payload.
Additional work space is urgently needed at New York University if significant work is to come from this group.
It is believed that the ideal launching area for balloons of this type is Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa. as long as this is feasible, For large balloons it is believed that the Navy people at Lakehurst can best facilitate the launching. Calm winds are essential for actual launching.
## Future Work
General Mills is making large balloons from lightweight films that would meet our specifications with the exception that they cannot take any internal pressure. It is believed that their balloons should be investigated as General Mills appear to be the best source of supply for large balloons. An order will be placed with them as soon as they furnish a quotation.
As a stop-gap device before these might arrive it is planned to fly two 35,000 cu.ft. racing type as well as the 2 Japanese balloons from Dakehurst, N. J. carrying payloads with heavy duty power supplies for the radio transmitters.
In the meantime, improved clusters of meteorological balloons will be flown until larger balloons are available.
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