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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 30 Thurs. Plotted up angle of azimuth against angle of descent for 7-2 recordings. Set aside this work for bombing runs. Worked on Flight 18 with Vivian. Started Eileen on calculations with Aug 8 and 9 data, reworking calculations doe before. Checked picks on Flight 18 - they appear to be sky waves though angle of descent is not regular. Jan 31 Fri Oakhurst. Worked with Eileen on Aug 8 calculations. Finished up for both direct and reflected possibilities. Went over Flight 19 records. Found that all of these are sky waves.
Feb 1 Sat. Left A.P. for Philly on 940 bus, arrived at Marions apt about 1. Wayne back from work about 5. After dinner we went out to Newtown and stayed overnight.
Feb 2 Sun. Drove up to Sparta NJ with Marion and Wayne. Saw Dorothy, Joe and family. Nelson Steenland & family living there with them. Saw Worzels pm. Ed Douglas in tonight for few minutes. Joe took me over to Dover & caught 958 train, then 1120 out of Penn Station, Newark. Arrived AP about 1230
Feb 3 Mon Oakhurst. Peoples in Washington regarding balloon ascention in June. Made plans for flight 20 which was made this pm 1300 to 1320 in conjunction with instruments in blimp. Route just south of east, no results. Worked on sky waves from Flights 18-19.
Feb 4-5-6, Tues, Wed, Thurs. Oakhurst. Checked over all sky wave picks on Flights 19 - 19. Went over Loran data and plotted up to get accurate plane speed. Plotted T - X curve using these figures. Worked up Oakhurst correcions for elevations and replotted all values for velocity - Flights 18 - 19. Received Gutenberg letter in which he had worked out Aug 8,9 data. Went over this method and worked over thae data again. Unique solution not obtainable. Went over possible experiments in 'Helios' balloon June with Peoples.
Feb 7 Fri Oakhurst. Worked on 23, 24 Jan T-X curves. V files 23,24 Jan forms, started on NYU data. Elleen worked on least squares-Va , then on Gutenberg's method applied to Aug 9 data.
Feb 8 Sat Oakhurst. Worked on V-2 rocket information 23 Jan. Used meteorological information for 2 explosions. Tried to get $ \bar{\mathbf{V}} $ at height of explosions but seems too low. Feb 9 Sun Asbury Park - worked on calculations of flights, setup? and calculations for rockets.
Feb 10 Mon Oakhurst. Worked over Alamogordo Radar Hueco stations for 23 Jan 1947 records and made plot of V-2 rocket D - H using all radar data. Went over all equipment to go to Alamogordo. Made plans for departure Thurs. Set up 8 sec galv in T-9. Vivian checked velocity from caps with temperatures and continued on Oct 22-23, Flights 12-13, Cruises, NYU data. Eileen in pm - worked on formulas of seismic refraction using straight line for line - Aug 8 - 9. Finished this and went back to least square solutions of Jan 23-24 data. Feb 11 Tues Oakhurst. Flight 21 scheduled for 8 tonight postponed until tomorrow. Worked on Oct 22 data with sky waves to Highland Lights. Went over all records. Have 2? consecutive shots to H.L. Oliva left by train tonight for Alamogordo. Feb 12 Wed Oakhurst. Vivian & Eileen worked on temperatures and winds Oct 22 & 23 and worked up ray paths for sky waves to Highland Lights. All equipment for Alamogordo assembled and loaded on trucks for Watson Labs this pm. Flight 21 at midnight tonight. McCurdy, Chantz, Woodruff, Ball, Hom?, Rigny present. Dropped 20 bombs 1200 to 1237. No signals received, either sky or direct waves.
Feb 13 Thurs. Got special instruments for 1 cycle from McCurdy this AM. Drove up to Newark in staff car- Chantz & myself. Loaded B-25 this pm but could not get all equipment on.-left 5 reels and box of equipment ? . Left Newark about 330, stopped in Middletown, Pa - Clmsted Field for 1 1/2 hrs to eat and gas plane, then left and landed at Godman Field out- side Fort Knox, Louisville, Ky. Stayed at Officers Club tonight.
Feb 14 Fri Left Louisvilleabout 930 am. Stopped at Tinker Field, Ok City for eats and refuel then to Alamogordo. Arrived Alamogordo 430 pm - contacted Watson Lab and got truck. Unloaded all equipment from B-25 & took part of it to North hanger. B-25 crew:Lt Kosher, Lt Alberts, Sgt ? Oliva arrived Alamo. by train this am
Feb 15 Sat. Moved eqpt from north hanger across runway to stowage building. Checked T-21s on GR 8, Checked galvanometers, etc
Feb 16 Sun Alamogordo. Out to Tower and Dona sites & surveyed in instrument locations - 5 to be station(ed) in shape. Ran out field wire at Dona station.
Feb 17 Mon Alamogordo. Went out to Tower site and set up Springnether and GR3 equipment. Rubicon 500 ft from GR3. Took trial recordings on both equipments
Feb 18 Tues Alamogordo. Went out to Dona Site this morning. Set up GR8 then Phil took truck and went over to GR3 Tower site. WAC corporal shot off about 215 but with little slipstream. Recorded at Dona but Phil at Tower site never saw rocket. Waited at Dona until 6 pm. Phil had 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.