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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. 165 …It never crossed my mind that it could be anything but a radio sonde. RW: How…
  • p. 226 …Obviously, trying to take something that's almost a meter in cross section, a meter on…
  • p. 432 …This system allows for accurate positioning of the balloon systems by use of crossed azemuths tram…
  • p. 443 …Hcmever, vertical cross-sections of temperature and wind were abandoned as a method of representa- tion…
  • p. 444 given point in a cross-section through the atmosphere was misleatling. In order to avoid the…
  • p. 512 …or provide a position "fix" by the crossed azi- muths of ground receiving stations. In addition…
  • p. 516 …With two sets giving crossed azi- muth "fixes" the position m~y be d~termined. If…
  • p. 546 …using a radio-equipped jeep to move cross-country at the direction of the aircraft observer…
  • p. 741 …which is shown by the balloon vector. Cross-hatched sector contains all wind vectors at these…
  • p. 816 …about 11 am. ~vent through Providence, Hartford. Crossed river at Hudson. Met rain last part of…
must be compensated for by decreasing the load on the system
to prevent descent to the ground.
This decreqse of load is carried out by dropping liquid ballast
as demanded by a prsssure activated ballast control switch.
This switch completes a circuit through a relay operated
ballast valve whenever the balloon system descends to a region
of pressure greater than that of its selected floating altitude.
Ballast is thus dropped and the system returned to floating
altitude.
On ~ghts made on another project since the termination of the
development phase of this project, the ballast control system
was standardized to include a pressure displacement switch and
an electrically operated ballast valve. The displacement switch
{Fig. 1) consists of a standard temperature compensated
aneroid cell and pen arm from a, radiosonde modulator
Fig. 1
Pressure Displacement Switch for Ballast Control

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