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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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Flight 17a Released from Alamogordo, New :Mexioo, 1647 liST, September 9, 1947 Recovered at Croft, Kansas On this flight the first balloon made ot .()()4.• polyethylene was latmohed. The altitude controls were a fixed-flow needle valve oritioe set to leak at 100 grams per hour and an autODLtio ballast -valve· activated by a minimum- pre·ssure switoh. This flight reaohed floating level shortly before stmset, and the balloon took on superheat whioh was lost_when the sun went down. ntis cooling necessitated the rapid discharge .of ballaat• maintain buoyanoy. ib,e operation ot the automatic ballast ~lve at this time was satisfactory and restored the balloon to a floating level within one hour. Following restoration a satisfactory floating performance was indicated tor as long as radio contact was maintained (Figure 11).. The need tor a ballocm-bome .. . - .. . . . . . ::~t: T~It_: ·: ::~!. .. ·I . . . - -~ -j . . ___ J '· .. I i •. • j ... ·! .. . -. -I'.. j . . . _, .. ·- .i '. . I . - i ... i .• . . .. _.. ! . ... • I .i Figure lla Height-time curve, Flight 17 barograph was demonstrated by this tlight.Which traveled more than 500 miles from the release point. -17-
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