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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…
F. Flight Termination Gear
The rate of descent when controlled balloons are falling after
exhausting all ballast is sometimes as slow as 50 feet per minute.
This means that several hours might be required to fall through
the lanes of aircraft traffic, increasing considerably the hazard
to aircra.ft (admittedly very small). To minimize this possibility,
units have been added to the flight train to cause a rapid descent
after the balloon system has descended to some critical value, say
20,000 feet. One such destruction system, using a flight-termination
switch, is shown in Figure 21. It consists of a pressure-activated
switch, triggered on descent only, an explosive charge used to sever
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Figure 21.. Flight termination equipment.
the main load line, a rip line attached to ·the balloon near the
equator anQ. a snub line which takes up the strain after the load
has fallen a few feet.
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