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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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Jan 11 Sat. Oakhurst. Worked on sky wave data of Aug 8. Drew up curves for lower and upper stratosphere. Regung? brought in calculator from Wright Field.
Jan 12 Sun. Cakhurst. Worked on sky waves Aug 8th and 9th. Got out letter to Gutenberg pertaining to those two days.
Jan 13 Mon. Oakhurst. Working on sky wave curves. Made plans for Alamogordo this Thursday Jan 14 Tues. Oakhurst. Calibrated instruments A-21 to take to Alamogorso. Raining
Jan 15 Wed. Oakhurst. Started writep of V-2 rocket work. Dr O'Day in from Watson and we went over V-2 rocket program with him. Finished calibration of T-21s on GR 8. Vivian finished sky wave curves. Worked on Dec 31 Woods Hole recordings.
Jan 16 Thurs. Oakhurst. All equipment for Alamogordo packed and loaded on truck pm. Worked with Tivian on sky waves of Aug 8th and 9th.
Jan 17 Fri. Oakhurst. Conference with Capts Lewis, Clowry and Duff of Clmstead Field and NCCUI at 1230 regarding bombs, future flights, etc. Mathematecian from Newman's group started work this noon - for two weeks. - working with Vivian. Woodruff and Chantz went up to Newark with equipment and loaded on P-47. Went up at 2 pm by staff car. P-47 left Newark 333 pm, landed at Patterson for fuel, landed at Tinker Field, Okla City 120 am. Stayed there overnight, Officers Manjak and Layden.
Jan 18 Sat. Left Oklahoma City about noon and went as far as Amarillo. Stayed at Amarillo at Clinton Hotel
Jan 19 Sun Left Amarillo about 1130 CST - arrived Alamogordo 1230 pm RMST. Unloaded equipment off plane and put in north hanger. Unpacked GR-8s, T-21 galvanometers. 3 T-21s and 2 galvanometers broken. Repairing tonight
Jan 20 Mon Alamogordo. Tested out T-21s at north hanger with GR-8s. Loaded up all equipment for GR-3 and Rubicon drum and went out to A1 tower. Set up house along road about 3/4 mi southeast of the tower. Ran out 3 1000' lines for the at 120 $ ^{\circ} $ radii. Set up dark room tent and 2 galv L&N broken suspensions. Worked on timing circuits, T-21s and galv at Alamogordo Air Base.
Jan 21 Tues Alamogordo. Tried out more T-21s with GR-8. All OK but one. Set out Site 2 near Hwy 70, C&GS marker 'Dona'. Laid out 1000'cables, set up Rubicon. Went out to end of Doppler line to station G but could not find C&GS marker 'Town'. Went back along line toward blockhouse & set up site #1, cables and Rubicon drum at intersection of G line and O line.
Sites now set up 6,13,19 mi from blockhouse, all about 2 mi east of N line from boundary? site
Jan 22 Wed Alamogordo. Made rounds of all 3 sites. Set up L&N at Site #3, & surveyed to tower. Took T-21s and GR-8s to Sites 1 and 2 and set them up ready to operate. Took Rubicon recordings at Site 1 and 3 to check galvanometers.
Jan 23 Thurs. Alamogordo. Left air base about 900am. Bombing postponed from 11 am to 3 pm. Went out to Site 3, surveyed to tower. Got GR-3 recordings. Left Chantz at Site 3 and went to Site 2. Woody left Site 2 and went to site 1. Bombing delayed by 15-30 minute intervals from 3 pm to 519 pm. Got good recordings at Site 2 . Both other stations lost to triangulation acc't radio communication though Woody had GR-8 operating but without directional instrumnets.
Jan 24 Fri. Alamogordo. Checked with Major Pritchard at base. Left about 830 and picked up all equipment from 3 sites. Surveyed Site #2 and made rough survey of Site #1
Jan 25 Sat. Alamogordo. Sorted out all equipment at north hanger. Left GR3, Rubicons and Sprengnethers. Packed up GR8's and other equipment and loaded in C-47. Carroll and Short in C-47 from Middletown. ready to leave tomorrow. Worked on Site 2 recordings pm. got azimuths and angles of ascent for 2 main explosions. Have high angle of ascent.
Jan 26 Sun. Left Alamogordo about 830 am in C-47, Lt Sherry of Alamogordo pilot. Landed at Scott Field, St Louis for gas & eats, and then to Patterson Field, Dayton, Chio where we stayed overnight acct bad weather east of Pittsburg.
Jan 27 Mon. Left Patterson Field about 930 am, arrived in Newark near noon. Chantz and Woodruff left by train. I went to Oakhurst with truck and equipment.Arrived about 330 pm. Peoples going to Washington tomorrow to V-2 panel meeting with Trakowski.
Jan 28 Tues. Oakhurst. Worked up diagrams for azimuth and offset distances, also angle of descent from Site 2, Alamogordo. Went over recording, got about 20 recordings on first part but only 2 on down part.
Jan 29 Wed. Oakhurst. Worked on latter part of V-2 recording of Alamogordo. Got 2 recordings besides 2 large ones, but very poor. Worked up possible trajectory of V-2 rocket. Worked up future program for Alamogordo - Chantz & Oliva leaving about 10 February for semipermanent work there. We are passing up Feb 6 rocket but starting on definite program following that. 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.