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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.

  • p. 539 …Too muoh weight was lost in this action, and the train rose until aome of the…
  • p. 540 …Train, Flight 10 The balloon rose to about 16,000 teet MSL and dropped back to…
  • p. 554 …It will be seen that the balloon rose~ a ' .. --------- r- ....., ..:. Pon"'m j"'.,.._" k '~I I…
  • p. 572 …obtained, but during this time the balloon rose with predicted speed (500 feet per minute) nearly…
  • p. 585 …On the other hand, the balloon rose extremely slowly and may have taken in air to…
  • p. 665 …In flight 7, however, the cluster rose till the lifters were cut off, descended until sufficient…
  • p. 739 …As a result, the cluster rose to ceiling and stayed at this altitude for a short…
  • p. 786 s4cond cluster flight, provision was also made to release balloons if the train rose above 40…
Oil these tlightl fixed ballaat leak• ot troa 260 to 600 grams per hour
were used. Theae leaks were prOTided through romd orifices rather then
through needle valve• which had be• in uee preTioudy. 1'hi1 improvement
reduced the possibilit,y or clogging.
On Plight 43 the tiret model ot an Olland-o7cle pressure modulator was
tlown with a moditied T-69 ( 400 me) radioeonde transmitter. The resul ta
obtained on thie tlight were not satistactory, but later test proved
SUCCesatul.
The train seen in Figure 16 is typical ot those flown during this period.
Note the presence of the deTioe to rip the balloon when desoending into
air lanes and thus speed up ita tall.
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Flight 16: Train, typical o1' those flown in April, 1948

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