From: Robert.Klinn@p0.f150.n30163.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Robert Klinn) Subject: THREE-VOLUME ROSWELL REPORT IN PENTAGON Date: 17 Sep 94 17:04:00 GMT Organization: FidoNet node 1:30163/150.0 THREE-VOLUME AIR FORCE ROSWELL/MOGUL REPORT IN PENTAGON LIBRARY, ROOM 1A518: NOT 25 BUT "1,000-PLUS" PAGES -- U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE EDITION IN A WEEK? A "1,000-plus"-page, three-volume version of U.S. Air Force Col. Richard L. Weaver's recent Roswell/Project Mogul-connection report (about then-TOP SECRET balloon trains launched by the U.S. in 1947 to monitor USSR nuclear bomb detonations) is in the Pentagon Library, Room 1A518, says Maryann, assistant to Major Thurston in the Pentagon Air Force Public Affairs Office (703/695/0640). "It's much more than 25 pages. I skimmed it; it's at least "1,000-plus pages." "I don't know how Thurston is handling it," Maryann says, regarding how one might get a copy of the three volumes rather than the 25 pages. This report -- with pages missing -- is sitting in the Pentagon, while the 25-page version is fed to Associated Press, USA Today, and U.S. News & World Report, none of which mentioned the three volumes. Even New Mexico Congressman Steven Schiff's office, pursuing the General Accounting Office's Roswell investigation, was informed by the Air Force of only the 25 pages plus "33 attachments." Associated Press's John Diamond, whose Washington Bureau broke the story on September 9, wrote, "The effort produced a 25-page report...." To what extent do trails into non-Project Mogul explanations for the Roswell event comprise this version? Although Pentagon librarian "Debbie" (703/697-4301) laughingly says the Pentagon Library copy is being decimated, another Pentagon source says the U.S. Government Printing Office will issue the complete three volumes within one week. The following is courtesy of "Debbie": TITLE The report is entitled, "REPORT ON AIR FORCE RESEARCH PROJECT REGARDING THE ROSWELL INCIDENT." THREE LOOSE-LEAF VOLUMES All three volumes are loose-leaf: Volume I is entitled, "Basic Report: Synopsis of Balloon Research." Volumes II and III are appendices with attachments and/or tabs. Volume II is entitled, "Appendix to Tab 32 of the Basic Report." Debbie did not provide the title to the Volume III appendix. NO DOCUMENT NUMBER! Although she closely examined the document, librarian Debbie emphatically states that no document number appears anywhere on the three loose-leaf volumes. NO PAGE NUMBERS! Again, although closely examining the document, Debbie says the pages are unnumbered. For pages of a report to be unnumbered appears unusual -- even for a draft version. SIZE OF DOCUMENT: ESTIMATE OF NUMBERS OF PAGES AND THICKNESS Maryann, after skimming it, had recalled the real report is not 25 but "1,000-plus" pages. Without page numbers, Debbie made estimates of thickness of the stacked pages: Volume I is not over one and one-half inches, Volume II almost two inches, and Volume III two inches. (Assuming that binders are not included in this estimate, the report is approximately five and one-half inches thick. MISSING PAGES! Debbie states: "Pages are missing; I'm certain pages are missing. Some are lost, and some are misfiled. People have been coming in, Xeroxing pages, and then not returning them, losing them, or misfiling them all day." (With pages unnumbered, one might well return a page to an improper place, unless as a reference point a page ends in mid-sentence or a mark has been placed between pages where a page had been removed.) Since the pages are loose-leaf and unnumbered, who is to say what the "original" pages said? THREE-VOLUME VERSION NEVER TO BE PUBLISHED "THIS WAY" "I hope it will never be published this way," says Debbie; "I can't imagine it will ever be published this way." Delay in sale to public -- Air Force "working frantically" to "get it in shape." Jim Cameron of the Government Printing Office said this morning that he had mistakenly believed that the report (the same three- volume version as in the Pentagon Library) was already in the GPO's hands when he had said two days ago that he would have a stock number and pricing by today. Cameron said that GPO then had and now has only an "advance request," not the document itself. But he has since learned, he says, that it has not yet been turned over for printing to the GPO by the Air Force. He said he spoke to the responsible "program person" for the Air Force, Lt. Jim McAndrew, Air Force Historian (202/767-0412, ext. 235), who said the Air Force is "working frantically" to "get it in shape" for sale to the public. Cameron suggests that since all U.S. agencies prefer to have their funds committed by the end of the fiscal year, September 30, that the situation will be resolved by then. "We're interested in giving it a lot of publicity" in offering it for sale to the public, Cameron adds. (Coincidentally, McAndrew was named by the Air Force Public Affairs office as the contact for inquiry as to availability of copies of the audio recording of the Air Force's recent interview with Sheridan Cavitt, Lt. Col., USAF (Retired), reportedly the only surviving officer who initially recovered the Foster Ranch material. Quoting from the short version of the Air Force report: "Since Lt Col Cavitt, who had first-hand knowledge, was still alive, a decision was made to interview him and get a signed sworn statement from him about his version of the events. Prior to the interview, the Secretary of the Air Force provided him with a written authorization and waiver to discuss classified information with the interviewer and release him from any security oath he may have taken. Subsequently, Cavitt was interviewed on May 24, 1994, at his home. Cavitt provided a signed, sworn statement (Atch 17 ) of his recollections in this matter. He also consented to having the interview tape-recorded. A transcript of that recording is at Atch 18. In this interview, Cavitt related that he had been contacted on numerous occasions by UFO researchers and had willingly talked with many of them; however, he felt that he had oftentimes been misrepresented or had his comments taken out of context so that their true meaning was changed. He stated unequivocally, however, that the material he recovered consisted of a reflective sort of material like aluminum foil, and some thin, bamboo-like sticks. He thought at the time, and continued to do so today, that what he found was a weather balloon and has told other private researchers that. He also remembered finding a small "black box" type of instrument, which he thought at the time was probably a radiosonde. Lt Col Cavitt also reviewed the famous Ramey/Marcel photographs (Atch 16) of the wreckage taken to Ft. Worth (often claimed by UFO researchers to have been switched and the remnants of a balloon substituted for it) and he identified the materials depicted in those photos as consistent with the materials that he recovered from the ranch. Lt Col Cavitt also stated that he had never taken any oath or signed any agreement not to talk about this incident and had never been threatened by anyone in the government because of it. He did not even know the "incident" was claimed to be anything unusual until he was interviewed in the early 1980's.") -- Robert Klinn - via ParaNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name INTERNET: Robert.Klinn@p0.f150.n30163.z1.FIDONET.ORG ====================================================================== Inquiries regarding ParaNet, or mail directed to Michael Corbin, should be sent to: mcorbin@paranet.org. 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