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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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Dec 2 Mon. Cakhurst. Cold wave hit about midnight - temperature down to $ 1 5^{\circ} $ - strong wind. Started preparations for Alamogordo trip; getting Rubicon drums and galvanometers ready.
Dec 3 Tues. Cakhurst. Worked on Rubicon drums and galvanometers for Alamogordo trip - Stepanoff on August 9 data - Vivian working up cruise tabulations. Oliva setting up new GR3 for Alamogordo. Got oscillograph operating with 3 T-21 microphones.
Dec 4 Wed. Oakhurst. Set up 20 sec galvos and operated for several hours. In with McCurdy to safety meeting, WL. Chantz set up Rubicon in dark box and took several records with 1 sec galv. Made up list for Alamogordo.
Dec 5 Thurs Cakhurst. Worked on relays for setup at Alamogordo. McCurdy & his group on T-21 operations. Woodruff and Chantz getting motors,etc ready for trip. Hent omer work at Cakhurst with Ivian.
Dec 6 Fri. Oakhurst. Worked on equipment for Alamogordo. Left at noon, caught 135 to New York City. Contacted Carl Gerdes and Ed Schempf at United Geophysical office. Curtin also in NY office. Went out to eat with Carl and Ed and discussed future work. They have job open for me in Alaska and also later possibilities in Turkey. Ed caught plane out about 745. Left on 1215 tonight for Asbury Park.
Dec 7 Sat. Went to Oakhurst 10 - 3. Woody and Phil there getting ready for Alamogordo. Peoples up for awhile pm.
Dec 8 Sun. Worked about 7 - 8 hours at Oakhurst. Chantz and Peoples there - getting realys, etc ready for Alamogordo. Went over all theoretical work on flights, etc with Peoples.
Dec 9 Mon. Oakhurst. Finished getting all equipment ready for Alamogordo. Chantz, Woody and I went to Watson Labs. Got checks and travel orders. All equipment loaded on trucks and taken to Watson late pm. Talked to Colonel Duffy a while about future plans.
Dec10 Tues. Woody, Chantz and I left Cakhurst in staff car about 9 am. Arrived at Newark airport 10. C-54 in from Middletown about 11, bringing Ball and Oakes from Wright Field. Loaded up all equipment on C-54 and left Newark about 145 pm. Lewis, pilot; Clowry, copilot. Arrived Oklahoma City about 945 pm EST. Got rooms at Air Base Hotel. Went into Oklahoma City for dinner tonight.
Dec 11 Wed. Oklahoma City. Waited for weather to lift. Unable to leave in time to reach Alamogordo before dark. At Air Base hotel tonight. Equipment from Johns Hopkins Unicersity transferred to MOGUL plane, including warhead of V-2. 4 scientists & crew, including Delgano? . Called Jimmie at Fairview, Okla.
Dec 12 Thurs. Left Oklahoma City in C-54 at 0800 CST. Arrived at Alamogordo about 11 RMT. Met Major Pritchard at air base. C-54 unloaded warhead material first then all MOGUL eqpt which went to North Hanger. Went over to Prichard's office, met Major Maguire? and talked over prospects of serups. Woody and Phil worked on equipment pm. Went up in L-3 with Sgt Mack looking over country of proposed sites. WAC corporal launched at 4 pm. Worked on equipment tonight. Staying at BOQ.
Dec 13 Fri.Woody and I left Alamogordo Air Base in weapon carrier and scouted out area south of White Sands and Turoro Lake. Got lost on ordnance map we had. Located Tower and K station Went to Proving Ground. Saw Karsh and Major Grant and got good locations and one of good maps. Left Proving Grounds about 2 and went up west side of sand area to site A3.
Arrived there at 4 but over very rough roads. Back to Alamogordo Air Base at 620. Chantz in Alamogordo working on T-21s, BST and Brush equipment.
Dec 14 Sat. Went out Hwy 70 this am toward Proving Grounds. Turned off at White Sands Nat'l Monument and drove to end of 9 mile road in park, about half in white sand area. Found location for #2 site which is about 30 miles north and a little east of launching site. Back to Air Base at noon. Went out north looking for Site 3. Tried to get through Ordnance Gate but needed key. Went back and around by Alamogordo and Tularosa but couldn't get in there. Back to base, got key from Provost Marshal and went out to Ordnance Gate. Found it did not lead in right Came back to North Hanger and took road out from there, finally landing at bombing area about 35 mi from base. Left all Rubicon equipment there. Back at Base 645 Dec 15 Sun. Got all GR3 recording units and went up to site 3. Set up both Rubicon in tent and GR3 in small building. Got recordings on both. Back through Tularosa and Alamogordo. Dec 16 Mon. Signal Corps people, Dr Kane and Dr Crenshaw in this am. They are planning to measure time interval between bursts of meteorites at 60, 70, 80 seconds after launching. Went over our plan with them. Packed eqpt for Site #2 in White Sands. Chantz and I stayed setting up apparatus and Woody went back for equipment for Site #1. Left Site 2 about 3 pm and went to site 1. Set up equipment there. Finished about 7. To Alamogordo for dinner. Report, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 882 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.