Subject: THREE-VOLUME ROSWELL REPORT IN PENTAGON
Date: 17 Sep 94 17:04:00 GMT


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.")

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