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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. 18 …Nevertheless, while the nature of the project remained 2
  • p. 33 …if there was anything of an extraordinary nature involved. This meant that the search was not…
  • p. 37 …generate absolutely no paperwork of a suspicious nature, while simultaneously anticipating that twenty years or more…
  • p. 75 …at your earliest opportunity, of the United States Government's current position on the nature of…
  • p. 159 …Colonel Weaver any information of a classified nature that I may have concerning it. There is…
  • p. 177 …I didn't know, naturally. I could have said after we got back to the office…
  • p. 202 …We used meterology as a cover story-it was a natural. It had a purpose beyond…
  • p. 219 …and almost .like hieroglyphics -- purple, pinkish in nature, that sort of thing. A: I don't…
  • p. 237 …materials, putting out bids, things of this nature. At that point you were working at New…
  • p. 241 …But it was kind of a natural thing to think of in terms of meteorology? A…
  • p. 262 …up your procedures or anything of that nature, or a memo? A: I have no memory…
  • p. 309 …be meteorological equipment or something of that nature and wanted it examined by qualified meteorological personnel…
  • p. 477 …ment was included that oscillations do occur naturally within the atmosphere, apparently as a result of…
  • p. 506 …Therefor~, our ~iscussion will be more of a qualitative rather than a quantitative nature. The general…
  • p. 563 …b&i at controls to determine the natural buoyancy of the General Mills, Inc. 20-foot…
  • p. 584 …level flight obtained ~~s due to the natural buoyancy of the balloon or the action of…
  • p. 596 …This and the general flight pattern indicate the satisfactory nature of this Winzen Research Inc. balloon…
  • p. 598 …changes in, due to sunset, 75, 90 natural Seyfang balloons in the troposphere, 79 1' -diameter…
  • p. 609 …however, much data and details of technical nature were given only in a qualitative way. It…
  • p. 881 …Tracking and Recording Instruments Depending upon the nature of the flight, the weather condi- tions, and…
  • p. 929 …float are high in the stratosphere, the natural stability of the bal- loon in the temperature…
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INTO CONTROL ALTITUDE.
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TO INDICATIE PROPER
CONTROL ACTION. (!) PEN OFF SHELF
TIME
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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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