Document · D-003
The Air Force's 1995 report on Roswell (Project Mogul)
The Roswell Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert
U.S. Air Force – Headquarters · 1995 · USA · Report
Original available
Official Air Force publication (ISBN 0-16-048023-X according to the National Archives), cited with this link in the notes of AARO's historical report. During verification the DTIC server redirected to a maintenance page and the PDF was not opened here: the content is reconstructed from the National Archives entry and from the AARO report.
- What it contains
- It collects the research begun in 1994 in support of the GAO audit: checks in archives and records centers, interviews with witnesses released from their secrecy obligations by Secretary of the Air Force Sheila Widnall, the report by Colonel Richard Weaver and a summary of the balloon research by Lieutenant James McAndrew. It concludes that the materials recovered near Roswell were consistent with a balloon from the then-classified Project Mogul, that there was no cover-up, and that no document indicates the retrieval of extraterrestrial bodies or materials.
- What it shows and what it does not
- It traces the debris to a secret project, which implies that the explanation given in 1947 (an ordinary weather balloon) was incomplete: a point that partly confirms the criticisms of the original version, but without any elements in favor of an extraterrestrial origin. The accounts of bodies are addressed only in the 1997 report; like any archival research, the report proves the absence of documents in the records examined, not the impossibility that others exist.
- How it came to light
- Published by the Air Force in 1995 after the GAO audit requested by Rep. Steven Schiff; the link to the Pentagon's technical archive (DTIC) is the one given in the notes of AARO's historical report.
- The document
- Open the document (apps.dtic.mil)
Sources
- National Archives – entry on the “Roswell Incident” (primary source)
- AARO – Historical Record Report, vol. 1 (2024), section on Roswell (The Black Vault copy) (primary source)
- Wikipedia – Project Mogul (other)
On this site
People 2
Claims 2
- David Grusch: Claims that the “weather balloon” explanation given for Roswell in 1947 was disinformation and that secrecy… Disputed
- Luis Elizondo: Claims that four non-human bodies were actually recovered from the 1947 Roswell crash. Contradicted
Official positions 1
Where the claims come from 1
Timeline 2
- 1994: The Air Force: the Roswell debris came from Project Mogul
- Jul 8, 1947: Roswell, July 8, 1947: the base announces the retrieval of a “flying disc”
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