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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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properly at 12,000 teet, but the air entrapped _in its aneroid wae heated and cau..d the operating le~el to be at the lower ftlue. 1'hiw would correspond to a superheat ct aooc above the air temperature. Later flights showed that. the type ot load a1;1aohm8nt ueed an thie balloan was unsatiltactoeyJ honnr, with proper rigging, cells ot .008" t.hickneu were good nhicles ae they usually showed ftl"J low dittulion and gae leakage. Near the end of iohe recorded data, the height-tiM cu"e shows large oscillations about a pressure plane (Figure 6). '.ftlree tactore which probabl7 II HEIGHT-TIME CURVE FLIGHT 10 Released at~ .1\jy 5, 1947-0SOIMS:r Figure 6 contributed to this instability were: (1) the turbulent motion of' the heated air over the desert, (2) the change• in temperature ot air in the aneroid val~e as intermittent clouds shut off' the sun, and (3) the overcompensation caused by the valve-controlled ballast flow. On this flight the .first "destruction device" was used for the purpose of' brlbgi.ng down the balloon after a f'ixed time to prevent excessive inter- ference in air-traffic lanes. This particular model was a clock-dri~en device which failed to operate, probably because of' low temperatures causing unequal contraction within the movement. Its action was to consist o.f de- tonating an inflammable compound taped, to the balloon, rupturing iia side and parmi tting a rapid escape of' the lifting gas.
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