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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. 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…
near the floating level on Flight 60. With a relatively slight change in
elevation, the balloon passed from Westerlies (below) to Easterlies (above)
with the result that the balloon was still visible from the launching site
(Alamogordo, New Mexico) at sunset, 14~ hours after released. The finder
reported seeing the balloon descend 35 hours after release.
Sinoe the ballast flowing to maintain buoyancy would have been exhausted
in only 5 hours, this flight provideq the first evidence that such a bal-
loon in the stratosphere maintains buoyancy much longer than at lower levels.
The two factors which contribute to this are the heat added to the helium
by adiabatic compression when descending and the oimi~ diffusion of
lifting gas at a low pressure.
On Flights 56 and 60, a three-station network was set up to receive
pressure signals on radio direction-finding (SCR-658) equipment. In
addition, theodolites were used for severalhours in each case.
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