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The Roswell Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert (1995)

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Headquarters United States Air Force (Col. Richard L. Weaver and 1st Lt. James McAndrew). Written by Air Force officers and published by Headquarters US Air Force, so it is a work of the US Government and in the public domain in the United States (17 USC 105). The DTIC copy is marked Distribution Statement A, approved for public release.

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RecordProject Blue BookBetween 1947 and 1969 the US Air Force logged 12,618 UFO reports. When it closed the files, 701 still carried the label unidentified. Even its own scientific consultant later mocked it as a society for explaining the uninvestigated. What did the Air Force conclude, and what do the unexplained cases actually mean?

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