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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.
“Headquarters”32 pages
April 17 Thurs. V2 firing #24 scheduled for 11 am. Chantz - Porter at Tulerosa Range; Reynolds - Woodruff at East White Sands, Woodruff with low frequency equipment for 1 trace GR3;Oliva - Kabassa?, radio operator on B-29 at Dona Site, Bill Edmonston arrived by car from Florida about 11 and went out to Dona -- Captain Lewis and myself at Launching Area site. V-2 postponed from 11 to 1610. 9 explosives supposed to go off, SCEL, only 1 worked. Tularosa site - had bad instruments - had 3 working but in line; East White Sands - one short roll, then paper jammed; Dona Site OK; Launching Area site - OK for first 2 rolls, paper jammed on third roll. McEurdy set up low frequency in hanger, north side, and on Rubicon drum but recordings questionable - as SCEL radio transmitter interfered. April 18 Fri. B-29 took off for Middletown and Newark about 730 from Alamogordo with all personnel that came down with it. Wrote Peoples a letter regarding split-up of equipment so that bombing runs could be continued on East Coast. Plans are to have Edmonston, Reynolds here with 2 sets and take Oliva, Chantz w 2 sites for the East. Set up equipments - Sprengnether & L&N galvanometers for Helgoland experiment & run equipment 1030 to 3 Pm. Checked over all recordings. Oliva and Reynolds out to Dona and brought in all equipment except wire. April 19 Sat. Into El Paso with Bill E this am. Got reservations to Houston next weekend. April 20 Sun. Worked on plans for bombing runs and V2 monitoring. April 21 Mon. Alamogordo Air Base. Bill Edmonston and I went out to Tularosa Range and checked 2 bombing targets, and located third bombing site 7-8 miles west of A1, near alkali flats. Chantz and Porter worked on calculations V2 -#24. Sal worked on equipment. Don off today. April 22 Tues. Alamogordo. Reynolds - Oliva out to East White Sands. Brought GR3 there in for overhaul. Worked up calibration of GR 8. Got curves for settings of 8 and for changes in attenuation. Talked to St. James, Ordnance Supply, re 500# bombs. Wire from Peoples Godbee ready to come back - plane ready to come down this week. Sent return wire to hold plane off until after 1 May. April 23 Wed. Alamogordo. Bill E. and I left Air Base at 0930 and drove to Roswell. Scouted out area between Roswell and Donali? but all irrigated farm lands. Finally back with finding suitable site, 129 miles from Air Base to Roswell. Chantz went Tularosa range GR3 back, Oliva and Reynolds checking GR3 in base, Datn?on calculations April 1 rocket April 24 Thurs. Phil and Ace working on V-2 recordings April 1 and 8 getting and amplitudes. Sal and Don on GR3, Bill E. on clock checks. Saw Pritchard about Roswell trips, bombing. Saw Post Engineers and Major Mitchell. April 25 Fri. Sal and I went to Motor Pool and got our driving licenses. Worked up sunshots for Tower and Dona sites, OK within 10 minutes. Bill E and Phil got timbers from scrap pile and went out on Tularosa Bombing Range to build shelters. Sal and Don working on GR3. Left Air Base 130 and left Alamogordo 3 pm. Got room in El Paso at Hotel McCoy. April 26 Sat. Left El Paso on Continental Air Lines about 0930, went by way of Hobbs, Midland, Odessa, San Angelo to San Antonio. Waited there about 2 hrs and caught Eastern Air Lines out to Houston. Got in about 0630, took bus to Houston and taxi to see Donnie. April 27 Sun. Houston with Donnie and family April 28 Mon. Down to Sohio Geophysical office with Donnie and Roy Bennett. Went up to Abbott and Stansell about a car. Caught bus out to airfield 1020 and caught Eastern Air Lines to San Antonio, and Continental Air Lines to El Paso. Arrived El Paso 730 and caught train to Alamogordo, then bus to Air Base. Chantz, Oliva and Bill E. checked over L&Ns, got driving licenses and worked on calibration curves. April 29 Tues. Alamogordo Air Base. Delayed trip to Silver City to talk over Signal Corps Communication with Peoples, Ball this PM. Went out with Don to East White Sands to set up GR3 and get it working. Lt Thompson in pm. Lt Stevens in on vacation trip. Sal and Bill E got low frequency equipment together and ran test with it at hanger. Possibility rocket will not be fired until Monday acct weather April 30 Wed. Alamogordo. Phil and Don out to East White Sands and Tularose sites to get equipment ready for test tomorrow. Set up Rubicon at Tularosa. Sal and Bill E. went to Dona and Launching Area sites to set up equipment. All mikes got out ready for firing. May 1 Thurs. Out at 2 am. Put up equipment for low frequency run at the north hanger. Out to stations in field - Thompson with Phil at Tularosa - Don and Ace to East White Sands, Sal and Bill E. to Dona and I went to Launching Area site. Rocket misfired at 050009 and all equipment of Signal Corps 'explosions' lost. Picked up equipment from Dona, Launching Area and East White Sands this pm. C-47 in this pm: Dubell, Mosher and Duff. Duff brought in 2 100# bombs with some TNT charges. Bill Godbee in from R.B.
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