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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. 17 …Popularly known as the Roswell Incident, this event has become the most celebrated UFO encounter of…
  • p. 73 …theory; movies such as "E.T.", "Close Encounter of the Third Kind", "Hanger 18" and "Cocoon…
  • p. 274 …I never encountered any such thing. We simply treated the security classification straight and did all…
  • p. 480 …differ- ential expansion of parts which is encountered at low temperatures is apt to cause less…
  • p. 513 …The defects which were encountered in the use of this trans- mitter were principally (1) relatively…
  • p. 517 …Altitude Determination To provide accurate, sensitive and readable records of the pressure (altitude) encountered by the…
  • p. 525 …This is due to the extreme cooling encountered in the expansion or the compressed gas as…
  • p. 526 …By adding a temperature-activated pen, this unit makes a record of the temperature encountered. Since…
  • p. 550 …miles and no cone or silence was encountered. By flying along the bearing indicated by the…
  • p. 556 …Ught winds were encountered in both oases, and a re~ersal trom Westerlies to Easterlies was…
  • p. 563 …Also the flight was made at night and no sunshine was encountered. i ~Ul!/JILLJLLI/l…
  • p. 569 …This force was in turn derived from the loss of lift encountered when over 300C of…
  • p. 667 Flight 12 was designed to overcame the difficulties encountered in flights 8 and 11, and, by…
  • p. 672 …Depending upon the noise-level encountered, it may be possible to acquire pressure data with a…
  • p. 713 …It, therefore, appeared that there was a certain amount of hazard to aircraft encountered in the…
  • p. 823 …S•clOc Probl• !he greateat problea encountered during the field testa at A.l.uogorcbt vas…
  • p. 841 …the range circuits necessary for conditions as encountered at this location. The fore part of July…
  • p. 920 …The clock should not be wound tightly since at the low temperatures encountered in the upper…
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INTO CONTROL ALTITUDE.
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TO INDICATIE PROPER
CONTROL ACTION. (!) PEN OFF SHELF
TIME
@ TOP LOW ALT. COMMUTATOR
@ aOTT. HIGH ALT. COlliN.
Figure 15. Theoretical height-time curve.
(4) Rate-of-Descent Switch
It may at times be desirable to control a balloon merely qya
switch activated at any given rate of descent. This could be
accomplished merely by "reversing" the rate-of-ascent switch.
This type of control would prove to be quite difficult, however,
for a constant level flight. One flight, No. 97, was made
using a type of rate-of-descent switch ·&s shown in Figure 16. In
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