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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…
The actual atmospheric distribution. however. does not indicate an
adiabatic lapse rate for air but rather a lapse rate which varies
with altitude. For. the troposphere the lapse rate of the atmosphere
averages -1.980C/1000 .ft. It may be shcrrm then that in the tropo-
sphere a rising balloon will get warm with respect to the air
(neglecting ventilation and radiation effects} at a rate of
1.98 - .57 : 1.4lOC/lOOO ft. In the tropopause the lapse rate of
the atmosphere is zero. Thus the lifting gas (if helium} will
oool relative to the air at a rate of .570C/1000 ft.
Similarly, in the stratosphere, the lifting gas will cool relative
to the air at a rate of 2.24 ~ .57 : 2.81°0/1000 ft. This effect
is plotted as Figure 22.
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TEMP. OF LIFTING
GAS DUE TO
AD.IABATIC EXPAN-
SION WITH AL'riTUDE
STRATOSPHERE
~ TROPOSPHERE
~~----------------\---~--~~~~~~~
c
TEMPERATURE
Figure 22. Lapse rate of air and helium.
Here. below point A, the lifting gas will be warmer than the air.
Above point A, the lifting gas will be cooler than 'the e.ir. The
effect of this temperature difference on the lift (as shovom in the
previous section} is approximately lll = L ..ai I
T (I- 8)
Thus. as a balloon system passes through point A. it will have less
lift then at release. This effect has been observed on several
flights. where a balloon system slowed down during ascent through
a ~mperature inversion.
Since the effect of the sun in heating the lifting gas decreases
the effect of different lapse rates, the effect is not as noticeable
during the day as at night. At night the balloon system may pass
through an inversion, lose its lift, and remain at an altitude much
below its estimated floating altitude until warmed by the sun's rays
at sunrise.
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