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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. 28 …In all, he estimated, the
entire lot would have weighed maybe five pounds. There was no…
- 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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VII. Summary of…
- 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…
Valve Seat
__1___ allast Outlet
Tube
Aneroid capsule closed
by sealing at des,ed ·~~~~~~
alt1tude. Descent below -;
sealing alt. causes aner·
o1d to contract, openmg
ballast valve.
Stem. Valve Closed
Force On Stem.
Aneroid Sealing Valve
es pressure of anero1d
capsule.
Figure 10. Automatic ballast valve.
The second undesirable feature of the automatic ballast valve
system is the lag induced by the use of a minimum pressure
switch to seal off the aneroid capsule. This is in addition
to the lag of the aneroid itself. If a mercury ~itch is used,
the differential between minimum and seal-off pressure is about
8 millibars; with a less dense liquid, the operation will still
require about a 2-millibar difference. If the sealing is done
by a fixed pressure switc~ it is then necessary to predict the
altitude to which the balloon will rise. Failure to reach
this height would leave the aneroid open and useless. Deliberate
under-estimation of the ceiling causes a relatively lo:rg period
of uncontrolled slow descent before control begins.
The third unwanted feature is the waste of ballast "Which flows
during both descent and ascent of a balloon whenever it is
below the seal-off elevation. Since the balloon is no longer
"heavy" when its downward motion has been arrested, flow
during the return to the datum plane ia·needless and indeed
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