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- p. 17 …Others remain nonbelievers or
at least skeptical of the existence of alien beings and elusive vehicles…
- p. 19 …Moreover, operational necessity required that these balloons be launched during daylight
hours. It was therefore not…
- p. 30 …This has since grown from a minimal amount of debris recovered from
a small area to…
- p. 35 …This included, for example, a small
amount of missing "decimal files" from the 509th Bomb Group…
- p. 36 …This was a small section of the July Historical Report for the 509th Bomb Group
and…
- p. 37 …To believe that such operational and high-level security activity could be
conducted solely by relying…
- p. 39 …The foil-rubber material could not
be tom like ordinary aluminum foil can be tom... "
Sally…
- p. 40 …Although there does not appear to be much dispute that
Cavitt was involved in the material…
- p. 43 …Lt Col Cavitt described a small area of debris which appeared, "to
resemble bamboo type square…
- p. 72 …being per:ormed on these bodies.
The bodies were described as the body of a small…
- p. 99 …It should be noted that the period from approximately 1946 to 1950 is the least well…
- p. 105 …Several small projects were completed during ~1e mont.~ includine
signs on all the·office doors, a…
- p. 149 …Streett 1s
office recaumends against it on the ground that that is a
small enterprize down…
- p. 159 …I do not recall the incident being mentioned again as being any big
deal and I…
- p. 201 …We even simulated a small lightning strike over dry snow (just
from the snow blowing over…
- p. 258 …Big plastic
balloon with small auxiliary plastics," etc. "Watson Lab and
gear." "Followed" (inaudible) "receiver until…
- p. 261 …explain bodies or material that can't be
folded) by a sledge hammer.
Q: Let's…
- p. 328 …The witnesses have recalled small pink/purple "flowers" that appeared I to be
some sort of…
- p. 401 …b7 how ra*
the receiver •7 be re110ve~ .t'rows the pre~er. red height withqut…
- p. 443 …geostrophic wind (the latter being
derived under certain simplifying assumptions) and since the
geometry of the…
- p. 458 …Two designs which compro-
mise extreme cost (required for balloons of high internal pressure)
with small…
- p. 479 …This means that several hours might be required to fall through
the lanes of aircraft traffic…
- p. 484 …The change in drag effect may be realized by a decrease of
relative size of the…
- p. 487 (a)
Then:
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or for small temperature differences:
(10) : - _L (.AI.)1-B T
the nega…
- p. 490 …gas of a balloon can be lost by:
leakage through small holes in the fabric or…
- p. 491 …for l:n•y small section of altitude is assumed
to be constant); and re.J…
- p. 506 in the preceding, section on diffusion end leakage the appendix
opening should be small. It can…
- p. 521 …is li~ited as indicated
above, small variations may be detected with the result
that it…
- p. 555 …being exposed about 10 hours
at cold temperature. (:S) During the floating period :many small oscilla…
- p. 565 …The very usef.ul information about be.llast flow was reported clearly, and
the principle of…
- p. 566 …Since the small external appendix with cardboard stiffeners was not
suitable for the large balloon, a…
- p. 580 …Following the initial activation at about 38,500 feet, small oscillations were
introduced into the flight…
- p. 614 …Figure 4 shows this appendix construction on a General M lls balloon which
is being inflated…
- p. 652 …At high altitudes, a difference of 40°C may
be expected in the temperature of the…
- p. 658 …To facilitate handling of the
line segments each length is prepared with a small hook on…
- p. 672 signals may be arranged so as to consume a very
small portion of -transmission time.
D…
- p. 738 …These values may
be compared with a diffusion loss of lift of the order
of magnitude…
- p. 742 …The constancy of level will be better the lower the
diffusion and the lower, therefore, the…
- p. 762 …te
.::mrcht:.se of small item£. A furth..:r rec:uest ~s been subr:rl tte…
- p. 783 …be of such a valve that
with a large r~diosonde frequency variation for a small…
- p. 785 …It is expected that this
equipment will be flown about 8 l-1ay. A description of…
- p. 815 …Before gear could be recovered, most of it had be~~tolen. Stations operating
at north hanger…
- p. 842 …Range started to slowly increase as did elevation with azimuth being
stationary. The echo remained beyond…
- p. 862 …By using this
stressed tape design, much larger loads may be carried than
the thin polyethylene…
- p. 874 …At this point, two small holes about
18" apart have been made, and the rip line…
- p. 881 …If thodolite stadia determinations are being
made, the banner can be used as one of the…
- p. 898 …laid out, A small amount of gas at very low pressure
Should be valved into the…
- p. 910 …The motor gears may be cleaned with
carbon tetrachloride and a small clean brush.
If the…
- p. 918 …Each combination of dots or dashes may be identified
by ear, and with a calibration chart…
Not surprisingly, the research team found the usual number of problems in many
of the records centers (particularly St. Louis) with misfiling, lost or misplaced
documents, mismarking of documents, or the breaking up of record groups over
the years and refiling in different systems. This included, for example, a small
amount of missing "decimal files" from the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell that
covered the years 1945-1949, that were marked on the index as "destroyed." The
researchers noted that there was no pattern to any anomalies found and that most
discrepancies were minor and consistent with what they had found in the past on
similar projects.
WHAT THE ROSWELL INCIDENT WAS NOT
Before discussing specific positive results that these efforts revealed, it is first
appropriate to discuss those things, as indicated by information available to the
Air Force, that the "Roswell Incident" was not:
An Airplane Crash
Of all the things that are documented and tracked within the Air Force, among
the most detailed and scrupulous are airplane crashes. In fact, records of air
crashes go back to the first years of military flight. Safety records and reports are
available for all crashes that involved serious damage, injury, death, or a
combination of these factors. These records also include incidents involving
experimental or classified aircraft. USAF records showed that between June 24,
1947, and July 28, 1947, there were five crashes in New Mexico alone, involving
A-26C, P-51N, C-82A, P-80A, and PQ-14B aircraft; however, none of these
occurred on the date(s) in question nor in the area(s) in question.
One of the additional areas specifically set forth by GAO in its efforts was to deal
with how the Air Force (and others) specifically documented" ... weather balloon
... and other crash incidents." In this area, the search efforts revealed that there
are no air safety records pertaining to weather balloon crashes (all weather
balloons "crash" sooner or later); however, there are provisions for generating
reports of "crashes" as ground safety incidents in the unlikely chance that a
balloon injures someone or causes damage. Such records are only maintained for
five years.
A Missile Crash
A crashed or errant missile, usually described as a captured German V-2 or one
of its variants, is sometimes set forth as a possible explanation for the debris
recovered near Roswell. Since much of this testing done at nearby White Sands
was secret at the time, it would be logical to assume that the government would
handle any missile mishap under tight security, particularly if the mishap
occurred on private land. From the records reviewed by the Air Force, however,
there was nothing located to suggest that this was the case. Although the bulk of
remaining testing records are under the control of the US Army, the subject has
also been very well documented over the years within Air Force records. There
would be no reason to keep such information classified today. The USAF found
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