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ERENT ERIN EA International UFO Reporter September/October 1994 Volume 19, Number 5 AN EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTER IN THE DANDENONG FOOTHILLS was a hole in space.” 1S'Dia.- 008° thicK polyethylene Balloon. H.A.Smith Inc. with remforced blow out patches toventgas when fred by B/S. Baro-Switch set to deflate large Balloon should train descend to 10000. 3c) A : 6 each. GeneralMitls Battoons, 200 cit 001 polyethylene. Paytoad in picture- frame mounting. F1G.44 Lea. Underinflated metro Balloons for Stadia measurements, 240' from center of small balloon tocenter of 1S" baltoen. GM Radiosonde with 20 end…

INTERNATIONAL UFO REPORTER Editor: Jerome Clark Associate Editor: George M. Eberhart Contributing Editors: Bill Chalker Richard F. Haines Richard Hall Kevin D. Randle Jenny Randles Mark Rodeghier Chris Rutkowski Donald R. Schmitt Jennie Zeidman lhe 1910 - 1986 Tre Air ForcE REPORT ON ROSWELL: AN ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE by Mark Rodeghier and Mark Chesney .......111000 3) AN EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTER IN THE DANDENONG FOOTHILLS = by Bill ChalKer ......ccccsssscecesesesete tere r ents etna ee ee eseentes 4 EPISTEMOLOGICAL TOTALITARIANISM: THE SKEPTICAL CASE AGAINST ABDUCTIONS by Thomas E. Bullard ......…

Tue AiR FORCE REPORT ON ROSWELL: AN ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE BY MARK RODEGHIER AND MarK CHESNEY s almost every reader of JUR must know by now, on September 8 of this year, the Air Force released a twenty-three page report, entitled Report of Air Force Research Regarding the “Roswell Incident.” This report is dated July 1994, contains thirty-three attachments numbering hundreds of additional pages, and purports to “stand as the final official Air Force response regarding this matter.” The release of this report and its conclusion—that the Roswell debris came from a top-secret balloon project—was wid…

another passed. They came to a bridge with a sharp turn following it almost immediately. Farther along this section the trio stopped. As all this was going on, Bill’s vision was impaired. Obviously he had some type of vision as he was driving, but he was unable to remember seeing the UFO. The two women with him recall the UFO clearly, and their descriptions closely match Kelly’s. In some unexplained manner Bill was isolated from the central experience. He has conscious recall of smells and sounds and remembers that a lot of activity was going on. He does not recall seeing anything. He subseque…

Tuer AIR FORCE CONCLUSION Given this lack of evidence, how can the Air Force conclude that the debris near Roswell was from Project Mogul? The key statement in the Executive Summary is the phrase “Comparison of all information developed or obtained.” This statement does not say “Comparison of all information available” about the incident, and that is the crucial omis- sion (and admission) of the Air Force investigators. The Air Force certainly read almost all major publications on Ros- well, including books by Randle and Schmitt, Friedman and Berliner, and the Roswell Report published by CUFOS…

8. Some of the witness testimony is consistent with material from Mogul balloon material, such as the alleged use of a purplish-pink tape with symbols on it to hold the assembly together. Wuat ROSWELL WAS NOT Before reviewing the testimony and reasoning the Air Force used in the report, we note that the Air Force investigation actually supports the work of Randle and Schmitt, who have previously been able to show that the Roswell object could not have been a V-2 rocket, an experimental aircraft or aircraft crash, or an atomic accident of some kind. The Air Force found no evidence that the Rosw…

viewing debris from Flight 4), who stated that “this was a balloon and a RAWIN target [the radar reflector].” Addi- tionally, in his signed statement made during his interview, Cavitt claimed that “I remember recognizing this material as being consistent with a weather balloon.” The Air Force can’t have it both ways. Brazel said the stuff did not resemble a weather balloon; Cavitt and Newton say it did. Symbols on the debris. According to Colonel Albert Trakowski, the Air Force project officer for Mogul, a purplish-pink tape with flower and heart symbols on it was used to hold some of the flim…

evidence to prove his original evaluation was correct. INVESTIGATIVE WEAKNESSES By now it should be apparent that 1) the Air Force cannot prove that debris from a Mogul balloon train was the cause of the Roswell incident, and 2) the report is self-contradic- tory and logically inconsistent. The’Air Force was quick in their report to criticize the work of UFO researchers because “almost all their information came from verbal reports many years after the alleged incident occurred... Most, however, related their stories in their older years, well after the fact.” That description applies almost p…