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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. 16 …of alien beings and elusive vehicles which never quite seem to manifest themselves. Regardless of one…
  • p. 28 …Conversely, there has never been any previous documentary evidence produced by those who would debunk the…
  • p. 29 …This had never been officially done before, although most of the persons contacted reported that they…
  • p. 37 …Lt Col Cavitt also stated that he had never taken any oath or signed any agreement…
  • p. 67 …Because this conclusion is based on the absence of documentation, the issue can never be definitively…
  • p. 82 …If written, there is good evidence through accessioning and microfilming records that the Agency never received…
  • p. 84 …histories and supporting documents, and it has never routinely received the kind of records which might…
  • p. 131 …I have never been sworn to any form of secrecy by anyone concerning this matter and…
  • p. 136 …It never crossed my mind that it could be anything but a radio sonde. RW: How…
  • p. 139 …as far as I knew, I never heard anyone say, "Don't talk about this and…
  • p. 140 …I never met LaPaz personally, but I knew what he was. RW: Did Rickett go with…
  • p. 141 …I forget since I was there in the Washington area for awhile but I never did…
  • p. 143 …To the best of my recollection, I never met the rancher, Brazel. RW: O.K., because…
  • p. 144 …I've never seen a Geiger counter myself, but I didn't know if you knew…
  • p. 145 …said you never saw...and then you said you were going to...you never saw the…
  • p. 146 …I never had any idea that it was anything with the V-2. They told us…
  • p. 148 …You and I never saw this. You don't see any military people or military vehicles…
  • p. 149 …said in a facetious way: "Lets make out like it never existed, because we're wasting…
  • p. 150 …to him the crash and recovery had never happened. There was no investigation on the Foster…
  • p. 153 …No, I never saw this. SC: I don't know what that is from. RW: "But…
  • p. 154 …So, some of there records were TS and still are.) That is because they have never…
  • p. 156 …Cav never told me anything. He said I'll never tell you anything then you won…
  • p. 160 …I am quite sure that we never gave it a thought until that book.
  • p. 161 …Now, we have never found the flight records to substantiate that, so I don't know…
  • p. 171 …related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by US Government persons concerning not…
  • p. 175 …related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by US Government persons concerning refraining…
  • p. 179 …We never considered a planned cover story; we were concerned with security. I was the project…
  • p. 180 …I never observed any of the balloon "trains" but I did see some of the early…
  • p. 190 …and subsequent models were brand new, had never flown anything like that in this area. A…
  • p. 193 …I'd never heard the name Mogul -- the classification was that high. I knew what we…
  • p. 205 …I just wanted to see if there had been anything stated to you never to discuss…
  • p. 207 …Yeah, I knew that guy, but I never knew Marcel. Q: So you went, moving into…
  • p. 208 …I've never seen a Japanese balloon that I know of, I've never seen the…
  • p. 211 …No, I've never seen this. Trakowski argued that even the name Mogul was classified, and…
  • p. 214 …Out PM with several NYU men by weapons carrier, but we never located it. Rocket postponed…
  • p. 229 …As far as I know we just never interfaced with the military. Q: Where were you…
  • p. 231 …We never saw anybody in security. There was certainly nobody keeping us secure. If anything, we…
  • p. 237 …who was writing a story, and I never quite could determine whether he was on the…
  • p. 238 …I have never seen such a document nor have I ever heard of any effort to…
  • p. 241 …radar reflectors for tracking purposes—but it never comes out talking about MOGUL and the instrumentation…
  • p. 242 …I never met Richard Robert Crane. I knew him only by the path of debris he…
  • p. 246 …They never said it, but I know they did because they left me free to do…
  • p. 269 …Before now, however, a larger portion of the story was never told. Recent research indicates that…
  • p. 271 …and Project MOGUL as first conceived was never put into operational use. However, MOGUL did serve…
  • p. 272 …Moore, NYU Constant-Level Balloon Project Engineer, stated that they were never informed of the classified…
  • p. 314 …I was never the Holloman Base Weather Officer. Lt Colonel Maas was assigned as Base Weather…
  • p. 477 …automatic ballast controls, and this flight was never recovered. Presumably the marked easterly flow then observed…
  • p. 501 …of efficiency since on-off operation was never permitted. The temperature data of these flights is…
  • p. 648 …The theodolite lost the balloon in clouds earlier and the airplane observer never succeeded in seeing…
  • p. 670 …make model and submit same before quoting. Never heard anything. 1/21/47 Western Products Inc…
  • p. 710 …Recorded at Dona but Phil at Tower site never saw rocket. Waited at Dona until 6…
  • p. 718 …Out pm with several NYU by weapon carrier but we never located it. Rocket postponed until…
  • p. 726 …CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Opinion has been strengthened that clusters of meteorological balloons will never be a…
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.

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