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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.

  • p. 18 …Trakowski, a young Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate, followed Duffy in the leadership role. Determining whether…
  • p. 27 …It is within this context that the following research and assistance efforts were conducted in support…
  • p. 38 …the object found resem- bles a high altitude weather balloon with a radar reflector.... disc and…
  • p. 51 …The crash o( a mysterous object 75 miles northwest of Roswell, which the Air Force lat…
  • p. 98 …In addition, the following rubrics were identified for insertion into the Agency's finding aids: Roswell…
  • p. 99 related to unidentified flying objects and/ or the crash of a weather balloon near the base…
  • p. 100 …The following key words or phases were entered: ROSWELL UFO UFOS UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT UNIDENTIFIED FLYING…
  • p. 115 HO Input tor 8 Peb 89 Statt Meetin& The following are two old Uems from the…
  • p. 325 …The objective during this trip was to experiment with the newly developed polyethylene balloons which replaced…
  • p. 512 …The primary objective of such telemetering was to collect data to evaluate the altitude controls applied…
  • p. 596 …the valve stuck and a constant flow at 1800 grams per hour followed. The rising ceiling…
The force due to friction or drag fi, = CD f ADz (This assumes
that there is no vertical motion of' the air in which the balloon
system is floating. We shall later consider the case where an
atmospheric force is causing vertical motion of the air.)
Where:
P : mass density of the e.i r sur rounding the
balloon system
A =
0-a =
projected area of' the balloon on a plene
perpendicular to the relative velooi ty
vertical velocity of the balloon system
(Velocity in the direction of greater altitude
is considered positive.)
a coefficient of drag.
number N _ Dzd P
R- JL
dependent on Reynolds
where:
d = diameter of sphere (ft.)
p =
JL =
mass density of surrounding
fluid (lb. sec.2)
ft.4
viscosity of' surrounding fluid
(lb. sec.)
f't.2
A plot of drag coefficient eEei~st ~eynolds nunber for e. sphere is
shown in Figure ~7.
100
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~""'I
~ !"-- -~
~I--
0
-· 10 104 10 I to•
Figure 27. Drag coefficient vs. Reynolds Number. for sphere.
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