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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. 539 …Too muoh weight was lost in this action, and the train rose until aome of the…
  • p. 540 …Train, Flight 10 The balloon rose to about 16,000 teet MSL and dropped back to…
  • p. 554 …It will be seen that the balloon rose~ a ' .. --------- r- ....., ..:. Pon"'m j"'.,.._" k '~I I…
  • p. 572 …obtained, but during this time the balloon rose with predicted speed (500 feet per minute) nearly…
  • p. 585 …On the other hand, the balloon rose extremely slowly and may have taken in air to…
  • p. 665 …In flight 7, however, the cluster rose till the lifters were cut off, descended until sufficient…
  • p. 739 …As a result, the cluster rose to ceiling and stayed at this altitude for a short…
  • p. 786 s4cond cluster flight, provision was also made to release balloons if the train rose above 40…
This altitude-control system operated well enough to produce a height-
time ourn (Figure 4) with one descent checked by ballast dropping. Too
muoh weight was lost in this action, and the train rose until aome of the
balloons were burst. Subsequent de1cent was not checked.
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FLIGHT 7
July 2nd,l947
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Figure 4
From this flight it appear• that the inherent instability of freely ex-
tensible balloons is so great that no a~ple control will cause them to
remain at one pressure level.
Tracking for the entire flight period was accomplished with a C-54
aircraft. Two, theodolite stations were operated, one at the launching
site and one at Wafford Lookout, a fire tower about 20 miles northeast ot
the release point.
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