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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. 15 …Ramey Col William H. Blanchard Maj Gen Clements McMullen Brig Gen Donald N. Yates Albert P…
  • p. 26 …Similarly, two authors, William L. Moore and Charles Berlitz, also engaged in research which led them…
  • p. 28 …The Roswell Incident (1980) by William Moore and Charles Berlitz; "Crashed Saucers: Evidence in Search of…
  • p. 174 …incident" (it was in about 1980 that William Moore contacted me and asked questions about balloons…
  • p. 182 …the books that have been written by William Moore, and Randall Schmidt, and others, a lot…
  • p. 227 …One thing I should mention is that after I had visited from William Moore around '80…
  • p. 664 …Elec. Engineering, Brooklyn Polytechnic & NYU Charles B. Moore Jr. Research Engineer Former weather equipment officer, Army…
  • p. 749 …Charles B. Moore, Project Engineer and James R. Smith, Project Meteorologist Approved by: William D. Murray…
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(c) Identify any records (unclassified or classified) related to air vehicle(aircraft, lighter-than-aircraft, rocket/missile, or other) impacts or crashes in New Mexico from 20 June to 31 July 1947; identify record groups and/or other indexes associated with these records for further review.

We asked the National Personnel Records Center to see if they have any files for Roswell Air Force Base for the 1947 time frame in their holdings. They noted that the histories for the 509th Bomb Group and Wing for Roswell Army Air Base for period of November- December 1947 was transferred to Air University in 1953. The regular 1947 records have been destroyed. They do have a packet of Top Secret for 509th Bomb Wing, Walker Air Force Base, Roswell, NM for 1949-1950. They said we would need to look through this for any records.

(d) provide copies of pertinent directives (including any changes of policies on retention and disposition) and records (i.e.,item c above) to SAF/AAZ, 1720 Air Force Pentagon, Washington, DC 20330-1720.

We are attaching appropriate extract from our disposition schedule since 1950. This is our earliest schedule.

GRACE T. ROWE

Chief, Records Management Branch

Directorate of Information Management

1 Atch Extracts from AF WID Records Schedules

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