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roswell
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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.
“Encounters”18 pages
- p. 17 …Popularly known as the Roswell Incident,
this event has become the most celebrated UFO encounter of…
- p. 73 …theory; movies such as "E.T.",
"Close Encounter of the Third Kind", "Hanger 18" and "Cocoon…
- p. 274 …I never encountered any such thing. We
simply treated the security classification straight and did all…
- p. 480 …differ-
ential expansion of parts which is encountered at low temperatures
is apt to cause less…
- p. 513 …The defects which were encountered in the use of this trans-
mitter were principally (1) relatively…
- p. 517 …Altitude Determination
To provide accurate, sensitive and readable records of the pressure
(altitude) encountered by the…
- p. 525 …This is due
to the extreme cooling encountered in the expansion or the compressed
gas as…
- p. 526 …By adding a temperature-activated pen, this
unit makes a record of the temperature encountered. Since…
- p. 550 …miles and no cone or silence was encountered. By flying
along the bearing indicated by the…
- p. 556 …Ught winds were encountered
in both oases, and a re~ersal trom Westerlies to Easterlies was…
- p. 563 …Also the flight was made
at night and no sunshine was encountered.
i ~Ul!/JILLJLLI/l…
- p. 569 …This force was in turn derived from the loss of lift encountered when
over 300C of…
- p. 667 Flight 12 was designed to overcame the difficulties encountered
in flights 8 and 11, and, by…
- p. 672 …Depending upon the
noise-level encountered, it may be possible to acquire
pressure data with a…
- p. 713 …It, therefore, appeared that there was a certain amount
of hazard to aircraft encountered in the…
- p. 823 …S•clOc Probl•
!he greateat problea encountered during the field testa at
A.l.uogorcbt vas…
- p. 841 …the range
circuits necessary for conditions as encountered at this location.
The fore part of July…
- p. 920 …The clock should not be wound
tightly since at the low temperatures encountered
in the upper…
to the automatic ballast valve system, a. tixed-tlow needle valw was set
to dischar~ ballast slightly in •xcess of the expected loss. Both 1ystems
tailed to keep the balloon afloat, and a. 1low de1cent tro.m ita maximum alti-
tude of 14,000 feet MSL re1ulted. 1he expected altitude of 38,000 feet
was not reached, and this is believed to be due to mixing of the air with
the lifting gas during rising. The bottom of tl'le balloon was open with
no protecting skirt or valve to keep out air. Since the thin fabric would
rupture with an internal pressure of 0.017 psi, some form of skirt or ex-
ternal appendix was suggested for future flights.
Radio reception with the 3 me transmitter was excellent and tar sur-
passed the performance of either the 72 mo· or 394 me transmitters which were
also flown.
Because of the low elevation angle of the transmitter, the single SCR-658
radio direction-finding equipment was not of much use for positioning.
Tracking by aircraft was satisfactory throughout the flight.
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