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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. 45 …In an attempt to read this text to determine if it could shed any
further light…
- p. 78 SUGGESTED READING.
Blue Book Special Report 14 and the Project Sign and Project Grudge reports. These…
- p. 146 …reference to the securit7
ot this countrr. Read his plana in detaU to Gen. Vandenberg
and…
- p. 148 …Van advised it would not get by Secretary Pattersc
Have to take a reading on exactly…
- p. 159 …although I know now from reading about this incident in nwnerous books that it was taken…
- p. 160 CONTINUATION SHEET FOR AF FORM 1168 AND 1169
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I funher state that I have read this…
- p. 169 …and I don't know how much you read it,
is that Rickett some time later…
- p. 170 …rmjust reading this end quote "book." No, No. I assume .. .! assume when I read this thing…
- p. 171 …Rich, have you got, read, Randle and Schmitt's latest book?
RW: I've not. I…
- p. 178 …He's the type that would read a book while he was on a road trip…
- p. 180 …quite intelligent.
SC: Oh, yeah. He reacl. Read books while he was on road trips.
RW…
- p. 187 …But in reading over some of my other garbage here, I have seen some hieroglyphics. I…
- p. 188 …You just read through it. I remember something about some hieroglyphics, not on
that one. I…
- p. 225 …Like taking a Pi Ball reading now.
A: Exactly. It was called a Pi Ball then…
- p. 228 …We have a read-out right here in
laboratory.
Q: So you're doing that work…
- p. 241 …When I read this, I was not at all surprised. I
interpreted that as saying someone…
- p. 244 …project for AMC?"
or were they not read on to the project at all?
A: By…
- p. 247 …Let me just read this. This is Crary's summary for the week
of 30 June…
- p. 249 …He had a place you'll read about, Fabians, Texas, which
turns out to be just…
- p. 251 …You'll see, when you read the Duffy thing, where Duffy thinks
maybe there were things…
- p. 254 …I find that of interest because apparently in reading some
of the various things that happened…
- p. 262 …I read to you one about some
equipment had been stolen by the time we got…
- p. 307 …I have read my rights as listed above and I fully un stand my rights. No…
- p. 308 …unlawful influence, or unlawful
(o affirm)/ have read this statement, initialed all pages and co ions…
- p. 518 …from one contact to another give ambiguous readings,
since the number of discrete resistances used is…
- p. 520 …flights when the balloon is floating be read to the nearest
two-tenths of a percent…
- p. 521 …flight the accuracy
of the data warrants reading only to the nearest one percent
of a…
- p. 639 …Coupled with the height data, theodolite
readings provide a fairly reliable horizontal locus of the balloon…
- p. 643 …Go vertically
to the diagonal line representing the balloon's size, and then read horizontally
on…
- p. 646 …For our purposes, we wish to find F and have modified the equation
to reads
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- p. 671 …helix rotating once a minute, the pressure read-
ability of' this system will be better than…
- p. 711 …However, on reading them, a discrepancy was noted. We believe the weather
conditions agreed upon for…
- p. 841 …Signal return remained above satura-
tion until a range of 7K yards was read, at which…
- p. 842 …the flight with their elevation and azimuth readings repeated
on the antenna. The MPS-6 antenna…
- p. 887 …after valving them before taking final pressure
readings.
B. Length of Balloon Bubble
The volume of…
- p. 889 …to the extreme left-hand edge and read the altitude. The
volume of the balloon is…
- p. 907 …by noting the plane's
position where the compass reading is reversed. the
position of the…
- p. 911 …The position of
the leading edge of the pressure signal is then
read to the nearest…
- p. 915 …percentage of the turns
as read on the nomogram. The lowest pressure
reading is numbered as…
- p. 918 …be
thus determined by anyone who can read Morse code
with a suitable radio receiver. T…
- p. 923 …Corrections
for curvature of the pressure record may be read
directly from Figure 37, Which gives…
the pressure distribution of the liftinc gas and the internal
back pressure due to valving gas. To find maximum rates of
ascent for various balloons would necessitate a complicated
series of trial and error solution. In general, it has been
more practical to determine a maximum rate of rise for nor.mal
operating conditions for any given size balloon by findin~ the
maximum allowable rate for the balloon rising to its lowest
normal operating level (i.e., we will find the maximum all0?18ble
rate for the worst normal operating conditions and consider
it a maximum for all normal operating conditions.)
Let us take the case of a 20-foot diameter polyethylene balloon
of .001~ thickness. Lowest normal floating altitude is 20,000 ft.
MSL. Let us assume that the balloon will be full and begin
valvinf gas at 15,000 ft. MSL. Assume the appendix diameter
to be 2 foot. Using equation (1) to find maximum allowable
internal pressure and assuming the critical x-y plane to be that
of maximum diameter A~ = D/2 , we have:
A Pall. = 4 SJt = 4(900/2)· .001 = . 007 5 psi
t2· 20
(Here we have introduced a factor of safety by saying Sf =900/2
instead of 900 psi, the ultimate strength in tension of poly-
ethylene.) Pressure distribution:
A.p 012 = A~ :l (I-B) = l-2°·3.38 ·10-4 • .862 = .00291 psi
Allowable back pressure:
A Pbp =Ap 011 - AP012 = .0046 psi
Maximum rate of rise using equation (13)J
( 2780° C A \ fttsecv d a}
= 100.7 ft/sec
= 6000 ft /min
It is evident from this calculation that the rate of rise of the
20-ft. diameter polyethylene balloon is not a critical factor
in bursting unless the open appendix becomes snarled an~ gas is
not allowed to escape.
Rate of rise and appendix openings are important from the stand-
point of balloon design. For operationel reasons it is important
to have a rapid rate of rise. In order to make most efficient
use .of weight, the balloon film should be thin. As mentioned
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