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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.
“The Sun”32 pages
- p. 43 …to the sun for only a few days. The
plasticizers and antioxidants in the neoprene would…
- p. 205 …ashes after exposure to the sun for only a few days. The balloon material and radar…
- p. 221 …to the sun.
Q: Is this the neoprene type or the •••
A: That's the neoprene…
- p. 230 …such as
the balloon material degraded, and maybe fused in the hot sun?
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A: I…
- p. 282 …We worked in the old Sun newspaper building in downtown Baltimore.
Q: They had intelligence personnel…
- p. 465 …the values of superheat ob-
tained by the gas when the balloon is in the sun…
- p. 484 …Superheat and Its Effects
The effect of the heatin~ of lifting gas by the sun's…
- p. 489 …Since the effect of the sun in heating the lifting gas decreases
the effect of different…
- p. 524 …when the ex-
ternal temperature was measured, since no adequate protection from
the sun was available…
- p. 525 …Daytime flights had the added advantage or heating from the sun.
The temperature of the lifting…
- p. 541 …in the aneroid
val~e as intermittent clouds shut off' the sun, and (3) the overcompensation…
- p. 547 …stmset, and the
balloon took on superheat whioh was lost_when the sun went down. ntis…
- p. 558 …the transmitter was not insulated, and there was no heat to be gained
.from the sun…
- p. 570 …Since the sun had set between the third and
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- p. 579 during the sunset descent (caused when the superheated helium lost the sun's
heating ei'i…
- p. 591 …that seen earlier with the balloon gas being warmed by the sun to acquire
a superheat…
- p. 666 …the changing buoyancy of the balloon as cloud
masses intermittently shielded it from the sun's…
- p. 736 …the
subst;q.uent descent, superheating of the balloons by
the nsmg sun would cause the…
- p. 739 …Flight termination was usually due to deteriora-
tion of the balloon caused by the sun.
In…
- p. 740 …the ambient tem-
perature after the sun had risen.
The automatic ballast valve operates. when the…
- p. 801 …April 14 Sun. Down to lab this am with Joe looking for G9A files. Jim Peoples…
- p. 802 …Discussed with Crane possibilities of getting sound through the ground part
of the ocean sound channel…
- p. 803 …Over to Jim and Rowes tonight and to Euzzards Bay bowling,
l'ay 5 Sun. L…
- p. 806 …Stayed at Amarillo -
at Clinton Hotel
Jan 19 Sun Left Amarillo about 1130 CST
IC.ent…
- p. 808 …Correlated between the ~ower and Dona
sites for se·reral sources. 'o!orked total travel times…
- p. 810 …April 6 Sun. Checked clocks. Cleaned out hanger and emptied trash out at East White Sands…
- p. 811 …April 20 Sun. Worked on plans for bombing runs and V2 monitoring.
April 21 Mon. Alamogordo…
- p. 812 …All equipment loaded on plane this pm.
~ay J-4 Sat, Sun. Left Alamogordo about 9…
- p. 815 …29 June (Sun) NYU personnel and some of Watson Lab men working today with equipment in…
- p. 816 …July 1a Sun. to cabins in Ohio just out of Springfield.
July 1 Mon. To cabins…
- p. 852 …4C.~~~ies• .tJi~J.tl~e ..•
a 'telemeteririg ·device to indicate· the rate of ballast flow…
- p. 861 …a sun-
set.
(3) By adding altitude control equipment, it is possible
to maintain the balloon…
to activate the ballast valve. A fixed ballast leak of about 400 graas
per hour was caused' by a defective valve fitting and this was suttialent
to maintain the balloon at nearly constant level until all the ballast was
exhausted. Following this experience, the use ot a preset fixed leak was
employed on many flights.
The very unstable "floating" seen on Flight 10, when the automatic
ballast valve controlled the flight. is not found on this flight Where the
vehicle used only a fixed-leak control. This eliminates both the over-
compensation and the serious effects ot temperature changes on the aneroid
capsule,. which are found when the automatic ballast valve is used.
The trajectory ot this balloon (Figure 8) shows a very interesting de-
formation at the transit ot the Sacramento Mountains. The anti-cyolonic
Figure 8
curvature over the eastern slope suggests that the air stream at the floating
level was distributed by the terrain. and the deformation predicted by d~c
theory may thus be given a physical illustration. The trajectory was de-
termined by aircraft and theodolite qbservation.
Another striking feature of the flight is the disagreement between the
actual flight path and the trajectory which might have been estimated tram
routine upper-wind reports. Reports from .l!il Paso, Roswell. Albuquerque and
White Sands were used for comparison with the observed trajectory.. Except
tor White Sands, none of these stations reported any wind from the WSW at or
near the floating level during the 12-hour period cqvered by the flight. At
White Sands a very shallow current was detected moving in the direction indicated
by the balloon flight. This clearly demonstrates the non-representiveness ot
the ord~nary pilot balloon observation.
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