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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…
March 31 Monday. Alamogordo. Chantz, Bill Godbee and Ace went out to E. White Sands and Tularosa sites to make final setups. Sal, Edmondson, Peoples and I went out to Dona site this pm and moved tent and Rubicon to #3 position and set up low frequency apparatus April 1 Tues V2 Rocket #22 went off at 1310 this pm. Chantz and Don at Tularosa, Godbee and Peoples at East White Sands, Sal and Edmondson at Dona, Porter and I at Lucero. All 4 stations got good recordings though low frequency instrument at Dona did not work out. April 2 Wed. Peoples, Major Magnur?, Thompson and myself went over to Lt Col McKenson's office this am regarding bombing punts. There are many difficulties with the bombing here, mostly that so many new groups have moved in and are setting up on the northern? range. Thompson and I went over to see Major Mitchell this pm regarding same matter. Wrote memo regarding proposed work to take to CO tomorrow. Peoples left on B-17 today. Don and Bill G went to Dona and Launching Area sites am and got all loose wires. Don and Bill E went to East White Sands and Tularosa pm and got inventory and brought back Rubicon and tent from Tularosa. Worked on East White Sands record. V2 made 85 peaks - down course. Porter worked on calculations pm. Sal and Edmondson took complete inventory and this pm worked on low frequency equipment.

April 3 Thurs. Oliva and Edmondson on low frequency equipment. All T-21s changed over to Stds. Edmonton and Bill G went out to Lucero and Dona, got inventory and brought back tent from Lucero.

April 4 Fri. Reynolds and I went out to Osurso? Range and located PB1 bombing range. Set up wires and did surveying. Chantz and Porter on computations April 1 April 5 Sat Alamogordo

April 6 Sun. Checked clocks. Cleaned out hanger and emptied trash out at East White Sands April 7 Mon Talked to Pritchard re 3rd car for tomorrow. Gave him memo of progress report for MOGUL project to date, talked to Lt Dyer of Signal Corps regarding for tomorrow firing. Chantz and Bill went out to Tularosa and got that site ready. All equipment checked for tomorrow. Edmondston and Reynolds ran drum recording of McCurdy low frequency equipment at base. Porter and I worked on amplitudes and frequencys of all recordings April 1 firing and started calculations. Olive worked on calibration of GR8 recorder attenuation. Got 3rd vehicle and all trip tickets for tomorrow.

April 8 Tues. Ace and I went out 7 am to Osarco site. Arrived 9 and set up radio and T-21s. Rocket due at 11, delayed until 1710. Very windy then, all settings at 8. Ran 3 rolls but nothing came in. Chantz at Tulerosa alone - Godbee and Reynolds at East White Sands - Oliva and Edmonston at Dona - all sites windy but 3 closest ones got some signals.

April 9 Wed. Worked on yesterday's records. Made picks on Dona, East White Sands and Tularos: Found nothing on Oscuro site recordings. Don and Bill G went out to East White Sands site and took recordings with pistonphone to get GR3 attenuation calibration. Sal Olive left this pm for San Diego. Wrote letters to Vivian and Jim P tonight.

April 10 Thurs. Ace and Phil worked on rocket recordings. - azimuths vs elevation angles. Don and I went out to Tulaarosa Range and checked bombing sites - bombing range just north of Range Camp and another site between that and our Tularosa site. Triangulated in with Tularoas Peak, etc. Thompson left in 45 for East. Godbee and Edmondson went with him. April 11 Fri. Don and I went out past Tularosa Site looking for bombing sites. Went back to Air to Ground Range and to air strip. Chantz and Porter working on calculations V2 23 and T-21 calibrations.

## April 12 Sat. Alamogordo Air Base

April 13 Sun. Worked on formula for triangulation without using compass - Alamogordo Air Bas April 14 Mnn. Porter, Chantz and I worked on GR3 and GR8 calibration curves for frequency and attenuation settings. Don worked around equipment - Don, Ace and Bill got apartments at air base. Wrote letters to Vivian and Eileen tonight.

April 15 Tues Alamogordo. B-29 arrived today - Lt Ball, McCurdy, Woodruff and MOGUL personnel - 41493: Lewis, Wolk, Burnhoff, Adams, Duff . Worked some on instrument calibrations. Lewis, Ball and I checked with Major Pritchard, then to Major Mitchell's office regarding bombing sites. Mitchell said CO had turned down bombing from air, but we could have surface charges along Tularosa road. Went up in AT-6, light plane with Capt Runcraft and looked over area west of Tularosa as far as the mountains, where bombing sites are to be located.

April 16 Wed. Alamogordo. Chantz and Reynolds out to East White Sands and Tularosa sites to check GR3 equipment for tomorrow. Porter and McCurdy working on low frequency equipment for V2 tomorrow. Woodruff, Ball, Work and I went out to Dona site then to Launching Area site. Strung out wires and left equipment for tomorrow's firing. McCurdy working tonight on low freq. Oliva in from San Diego this pm

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