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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. 51 …Kopelson said the office's investigation, first reported in the Albuquerque Journal yesterday, stemmed from a…
  • p. 82 …northwest ofHobbs NM 7 miles southeast of Albuquerque NM Carrizozo NM 15 miles southwest of Alamogordo…
  • p. 176 …of command that reported to Kirtland in Albuquerque rather than Fort Worth and although Blanchard outranked…
  • p. 225 …Tibbetts, who until recently lived in Albuquerque, he's now moved to Scottsdale, Arizona. Tibbetts says…
  • p. 273 …Another fellow recently came into view, a Carl Pflock from Albuquerque, New Mexico. He appeared to…
  • p. 299 …B-29 crashed on T/0 from Albuquerque in Jan 1947 and a B-29 crashed…
  • p. 379 …but h.e thought the constru~t.ion. ~;ent here from the Albuquerque wondered if what…
  • p. 543 …reports. Reports from .l!il Paso, Roswell. Albuquerque and White Sands were used for comparison with…
  • p. 637 …WNW-5 W-7 10,000 M Albuquerque 1944 SE-3 W-3 W-6 W…
  • p. 639 …3 wsw-2 WNW-5 'WNW-8 Albuquerque 1944 N-3 "WNW-4 WNW-6 W…
  • p. 723 …representative preaeurea and temperatures taken from Washington, Albuquerque, Pittsburgh and Lakehurst soundings. Individual variations from season…
  • p. 740 …was reported to have been seen over Albuquerque, New Mexico, and about 26 hours later a…
  • p. 742 …Over Albuquerque, which was considerably farther from the path of the balloon than the other two…
  • p. 788 …The .altitudes corresponding to various molar volumes for Lakehurst am Albuquerque in January and in August…
Flight lOa Relea1edtrom Alamogordo, New Mexico, 0601 MST, July 6, 1947
Not recovered
!hie flight wa1 the first to use a large plastic balloon as the lifting
vehicle. !he oell was spherical, 16 teet in diameter, and the walls were
.ooa• polyethylene heat sealed at the seams (made by Harold A. Smith, Inc.).
1he altitude control was an automatic ballast valve, pressure-triggered to
throw ott liquid ballast. !he equipment train used on this flight is shown
in Figure 5.
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3,000 9~ bo.lLa.at.
Figure 6: Train, Flight 10
The balloon rose to about 16,000 teet MSL and dropped back to 9000 teet
MSL where_ it "floated" tor at least 4 hours, at which time radiosonde re-
ception tailed. It ia believed that the automatic ballast valve sealed ott
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