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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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1,3. D. Launching Services During the course of the project balloon .flights were split into· two general classifications, (a) research and (b) service. Research flights were made to test balloon contrOls and telemeter- ing systems developed under the contract.· A .tul.l report of these research flights has been mac!e 1ft "Technical Report 9.3.02 1), Section lii, Summar,r of Flights• Service fiights were carried out by New York UniTersit7 personnel in conjunction with technical personnel from the sponsoring ageney to test geophysical equipnent deTeloped in Air Force laboratories. The requirements for these fiights wre launching and tracking of balloons to float at specified altitudes for short periods of time (6 to 8 hours). Because of this short .tl.ight ·duration, simplified plastic balloon STStas wre used. Balloons were maintained aloft by ,,se of constant fixed ballast now, or ballast was excluded entirely from the 87Stem. A typical night using constant ballast flow at a rate slightl7 exceeding leakage losses is shown as Fig. 8. i- ~0 t.• J... .! I ,. I I I I I 1 I I I l I I t-i. /' I 11\ \ \ v i _\. \ .\ ... l. 1 . \ ~ 1100 1100 a: 0100 otOO ~00 0100 1000 1- 1100 1100 1400 T••e-MIT NYU BALLOON PROJECT FLIGHT 82 Barograph Record Of G.M. 20' Pla1hc Balloon W1th 534 gm/hr F1xed Balla1t Leak ltiLIAUD AT ALAMOIOitDO,N.M.- OIIIMIT, 10 AUI 1141 DIIOINDID AT ltOIWILL,N.M.• 1110 MIT, 10 AUI 1141 DURATION• ill lite Fig. 8 Balloon Flight Using Fixed Ballast Flow
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