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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. 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 / / / 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 - 18 -
  • 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…
If a balloon is teardrop in shape rather than spherical, the curve
would be modified so that the value of c0 , for a given Reynolds
number would be lower. In this case the sudden drop in C0
as Reynolds number increases (the change from viscous to turbulent
flow) would occur at a lower Reynolds number.
We have thus far in our discussion assumed that there is no verti-
cal motion of the air surrounding the balloon system relative to
the coordinate ! • However, this is not necessarily the case
under actual conditions. In many instances vertical llir movement is
found in the a bnosphere. Therefore, we must introduce a term to
allow for this vertical air movement. In equation (2) this term
was indicated as :tFA , the external atmospheric force.
We may consider this vertical air movEment· in terms of a velocity Dt.
Then the vertical velocity of the balloon system relative to the
air surrounding the system will be the difference between the velo-
city of the balloon relative to the absolute altitude Dt and the
velocity of the surrounding air relative to the absolute altitude
This may be equated as D~- 0 C , where Di and DC are both con-
sidered positive in the direction of increase of altitude.
The total force due to the drag, or friction will be:
FD + FATM: CD:. A ( 0!- oc>2
where the00otations are those used previously, exc.ept that now
NR = (Oz- :71 de • The relationship between NR and Co will be those
used previously.
The force due to buoyancy of the lifting gas F8 = Vb (P0 - Pg)
where:
vb: balloon volume (ft.3)
density of the air and lifting gas, respectively
(lb./ft.3)
This term my also be stated as:
where:
P0 , Pg = pressure
R0 ,Rg = specific
F
of air and lifting gas
gas constant of air and lifting
Ta, Tg : temperature of air and lifting gas
gas
The changes that will take place in this expression are those due
to a temperature difference between the lifting gas and the free
air, change in volume of the balloon due to loss of lifting gas,
change of the gas· constant of the lifting gas due to dilution with
air, and (in the case of a balloon that will hold an internal pressure)
pressure difference between lifting gas and surrounding air.
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