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The Roswell Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert was published in 1995 by Headquarters United States Air Force. It was written in response to Representative Steven H. Schiff's request and a General Accounting Office audit, and it contains Col. Richard L. Weaver's report and 1st Lt. James McAndrew's synopsis, along with attachments, appendices and photographs. The report says researchers found no evidence of an extraterrestrial craft or crew. It concludes that the 1947 debris came from a Project MOGUL balloon train.

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  • p. 231 …It was like a 500 pound rack with a receiver, frequency meter, recorder, etc., and we…
  • p. 233 …About one pound. A: correct. And the targets are nominally maybe a quarter of a pound…
  • p. 238 …They went and got a whole bunch of soo pound bombs out of the Earl Ammunition…
  • p. 258 …Third balloon with two and a half pound stick of TNT and cap set by pressure…
  • p. 263 …releasing something like maybe several hundred 500 pound bombs for this. At the same time, Trakowski…
  • p. 323 …I 4 inches wide, and weighing 13 pounds (Atch 4). The sonabuoy contained both the acoustical…
  • p. 379 …have weighed maybe five pounds. rancher living 30 mlles south. east bright wreckage made up on…
  • p. 408 …six (6) scientists and twelve (12) thousand pounds of' equipnent from BElliAR, NEV; JERSEY to KWAJALErn…
  • p. 475 …Dry ice consumption at -GOOF is approxi- mately 150 pounds for a 24-hour period. It…
  • p. 483 …is free lift in pounds and G is gross lift in pounds. Although this equation was…
  • p. 536 …New Mexico In this flight, a 65-pound load was lifted with a linear array of…
  • p. 538 …and tour larger lifting balloons, a 53-pound load was carried alott on this flight. At…
  • p. 542 …wall) to lift • total load of S5 pounds as high aa posaible (Figure 7). 'lbe small…
  • p. 588 …the AM-1 transmitter (with about 10 pounds of batteries) was received for about 400 miles…
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  • p. 614 …foot balloon should be held tinder 30 pounds; 2) ratEBot rise should be less than 900…
  • p. 621 …of 50,000 feet, with a 30-pound payload, risea about 900 feet with each kilogr…
  • p. 641 …Given: (l) The pound molar volume of any gas at standard conditions=359 ft. 3 - 15 -
  • p. 642 …2370 fte3 273.2 126 This is the mean pound molar volume at 15 km for…
  • p. 643 …foot diameter, at an altitude where the pound molar volume is 1000 ft. 3 (This is…
  • p. 715 …Suspended from the balloon is a 100 foot one thousand pound test nylon line which carries…
  • p. 736 …The solid-ballast system was complex; approxi- mately 900 pounds of sand was used on each…
  • p. 737 …It has an ultimate tensile strength of 1,900 pounds per square inch at 2SC, which…
  • p. 780 …for attaching rigging lines supporting a ~5-pound load to bottom of balloon ~nd means for…
  • p. 862 …Yii th a 20•foot General Mills balloon, using helium, a payload of 40 pounds will…
  • p. 868 …Thus, if a 40-pound load is to be lifted, it is not safe to use…
  • p. 889 …This is the volume of a pound mol of any gas at those condi- tions. By…
  • p. 893 …Elliptical shot bags, weighing 100 pounds,are used to hold the base of the bubble to…
  • p. 907 …using 15 pounds (7 kilograms) of batteries. Longer periods of transmission may be achieved by intermittent…
  • p. 984 …The detonation, or "shot" (right), of 500 pounds of TNT was monitored at White Sands Proving…
PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
A: The ones in early June were all service flights. In
other words, all flights we were making for Peoples, and we had
some radar test flights.
Q: so to go with the June 14th date, what type of flight
do you think would have ..•
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A: All the balloons launched in that period would have
been meteorological balloons, 350 gram meteorological balloons,
some of them with radar targets just to test the radar out and
some of them, I'd forgotten all about it, but Crary's diary says
we had sonobuoy microphones on some of them. So that black box
that Cavitt had really began to get my attention.
Q: That would not be a radiosonde.
A: That would not be a radiosonde.
Q: What would a radiosonde look like?
A: It would be a white, usually a cardboard or a plastic
box, and the fact that we were involved in radar is because we
weren't allowed to have our radiosonde equipment. We weren't all
set up for that.
Q: You said you didn't bring it with you.
A: We didn't bring the receiver. I have to correct
myself, we did attach radiosondes to them, to the flights
carrying microphones because there's a statement in this summary
here of radiosonde reception. Radiosonde recording. So I take
that back. Yes, we had radiosonde. But we did fly this one
mentioned here, on June 4th, out to Tulerosa range, no balloon
flight, again, on account of clouds. By that he means none of
their flights. Then "Flew regular sonobuoy mike on a cluster of
balloons and had good (inaudible) receiver on ground but poor on
plane."
Q: I notice early on you were going ahead with the Navy
stocked sonobuoy while Professor Ewing was trying to perfect his
technique of the low range frequency microphone.
A: Oh, the low frequency microphone, right. That's
correct.
Q: He was experimenting with both AM and FM, is that your
recollection?
A: In the laboratory, devices for measuring low frequency
acoustic waves were well known, but what he was attempting to do
was to modify these and devise something to be a throw-away
microphone and radio transmitter, so this was to build an
instrument for a certain purpose. He actually had a fellow named

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