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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.

  • p. 36 …potential existence of such records within DOE channels, however. An Extraterrestrial Craft The Air Force research…
  • p. 81 …is not normally released outside Air Force channels. It does not cover the investigation of air…
  • p. 214 …Some of the reflectors were procured from sources out of normal channels. Some of the contractors…
  • p. 236 …try to put microphones into the sound channel. During WWII, the ·signal Corps had laid on…
  • p. 240 …I knew, just being an atmospheric physicist, I knew about the sound duct channel and I…
  • p. 273 …the sound waves operating in the sound channel in the stratosphere. The constant level balloon was…
  • p. 279 COL TRAKOWSKI - 6/29/94 7 were out of channel, so to speak. It was on…
  • p. 319 …II, studying, among other things, the "sound channel" in the ocean. He proved that explosions could…
  • p. 399 …Tb1e situation 1s~escr1beo a• a sound channel .. 1tb 1t& axis at 4000 feet, because all…
  • p. 400 …that there is a s1~1lar sound channel 1n the atmosphere with the axis at a…
  • p. 401 …red height withqut prohibit1'Ye eacr1t1ce ot sound channel prooertiea. Hawcner, 1~ the aub:a.rine…
  • p. 402 …cted at tbe axis ot the sound channel ahould be made. In·., op1n1oii', the J)r1nc1…
  • p. 403 …toe ~trato::.;;he:r·a so\,;nd channel ~!:lould be 1r.ves:.:1. 0ated, for it…
  • p. 407 …compressional waves are generated in the sound channel existing between 50,000 and 701000 feet (such…
  • p. 432 …ratio) and simultaneous transmission of several data channels at one frequency. This project was abandoned before…
  • p. 434 …The recorder used was a Brush BL-202 dottble channel oscillograph. A. quarter wave vertical receiVing…
  • p. 525 …To permit the transmission of both temperature and pressure data by one radio channel, a pe…
  • p. 671 …her than pressure is also to be transmitted on the same radio channel, the pressure - 33 -
  • p. 802 …Discussed with Crane possibilities of getting sound through the ground part of the ocean sound channel…
  • p. 980 …It was Ewing who first conceptualized the military significance of the atmospheric sound channel. His proposal…
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A F.eport tor Ge~e~al Carl Soaatz
oreoared b;- Y.aurlce Ewlng
Undor a contrnct w1 th the i:breau of Shlc.s, we hmte
prove~ thot ~her~ 1~ a ~cund channel 1n the ocean wltr 1ta
axis at a ~1ench of '"bot.:.t 4606 fee€. Conflrld.nf D. nredletlion
.made by tt:".O wr1 tor, a four oound bomb fired at thlS depth
bas been heard at a d!.stance of -2:300 nt1les, using • hy.~rop'bone·
at the ~ame depth as a receiver. 1'h.!.5 range enormc.v.sly
exee1.1ds anyth1ne before achieved, o.nd 1~ possible pr111111r111
becausa the so~!rco aod the receive:- are placed at th• most
advantaaeoua depth. Th3 slGnal strengt~ indicates that
far :!reater ranees ca;, be vnta1ned 111 thoclt change or eq>l1naent.
At a typical place in the ocean, the speed or
eound at tt,e surface 1s 5001 tt/sec. It decreases to 4888 tt/aeo
at a depth of 4000 feet. 'it.n.:i ~hen 1.ncreases to 5065 !"t/aec,
at a depth or 16.200 feet. Tb1e situation 1s~escr1beo a•
a sound channel .. 1tb 1t& axis at 4000 feet, because all 801.l'ild
rays are deflected downwar~ at points above the axis and u~ard
at ooints below it. Detailed cal~;lation ot the bending of
tho ray lJaths due to -presat:re and teu;pera ture shows that all
ra~s leaving a sound source on the axta 1n directions within
lzg or the no~izontal are refraoted back and forth across t~
ax1a and can tr&Yel unlimited d1ataneea w1thnut contact with'
aurtace or bottom, hence the long ~ea. A eimilar calculation
ror a sound aouree nea~ the· surtace abo•• that all raya :DU•t
be reflected at aart~ee and bottom many timoa 1n the course
of a tn tmndred ::tlilca, hence the 11m1ted range of detect1qrt
of or::11nar;r shallow explosions, and the ocourence ot skip
~1stancea. ·
~·sound fro~ an explosion at the axis ot th6.80ucd
channel baa a duration of abo,tt 12 aeconda per thousand mtlea
of travel, a."'ld an umalatak&ble pe.ttem or a gra~ual bu1ld1!1l6
up to :ax111Uil 1ntena1ty wttb a very sharp cut-ott. 'rhta
laat feature 1a ot great importance beoauae 1t perm1ta aoc~rate
trlansulation w1tb A network or three 11aten1ng ata~1ona,
the rate of ta nsm1aa1on be1n~ about one !Idle per ,••oond.
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