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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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in the preceding, section on diffusion end leakage the appendix opening should be small. It can be seen that as we make one of our conditions better, we must sacrifice at least one of the others. Therefore, balloons must be designed compromising rate of rise, balloon thickness, and appendix opening. Methods of decreasing the eppendix opening, except during the valving of lifting. gas, are discussed in other sections of this tech• r.ical report. In general they consist of means of applying a delicate relief valve, capable of opening to a lerge area with af!)lication of only slight intems.l pressure, and also closing tight upon release of this internal pressure. G. A Ge.tleral Equa.ttc:m of Motion If we collect and relate the variables incidental to balloon flight, we may form a general equation of motion. This is most easily ex- pressed in terms of forces acting upon the balloon systell'.. We may equate e.n acceleration term plus a drag or friction term against r term to include all other forces: · (1) This is a differential equation of a type common in mechanical vi- bration problems, end solution for the variable Z would not be difficult if relationships of the many variables included in the the terms n and IF were simple. However, the cornplexi~ of the balloon system introduces many terms as pe.rts of n and 2; F • We shall first state the more complex form of equation (1) above and then attempt to explain tre variables included in each part of the equation. As will be shown, it is extremely difficult to find a complete sol•Jtion of the equation since nany of the variables are in themselves extremely complex and at this time incapable of accurate solution. Therefor~, our ~iscussion will be more of a qualitative rather than a quantitative nature. The general force equation is: (2) fo2i!+C ~A(Di!f= Vb(P0 -P9 )-W±Fotm The force due to acceleration where: FA : t rfe W : weight of the balloon system g : acceleration of gravity 021: = acceleration of the balloon system (ln acceleration in the direction of greater altitude is considered positive.) -56-
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