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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. 489 …It may be shcrrm then that in the tropo- sphere a rising balloon will get warm…
  • p. 490 …the rate of rise or descent in the strato- sphere will be limited by the rate…
  • p. 507 …d = diameter of sphere (ft.) p = JL = mass density of surrounding fluid (lb. sec.2) ft…
  • p. 643 …3 Volume of a 20-toot diameter sphere =4190 ft • Number of mols in sphere at…
  • p. 788 …lift from a 20 foot diameter 1000 sphere of hydrogen at an altitude where the molar…
  • p. 794 …film 1 cemented tojetller to / ma.ke sphere. roR cON STANT Le:vf: L 8A LLOON…
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
"'....... ~ ·--
~""'I
~ !"-- -~
~I--
0
-· 10 104 10 I to•
Figure 27. Drag coefficient vs. Reynolds Number. for sphere.
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