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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
Flig_ht 74: Released from Alamogordo, New Mexico, 1040 MST, July 19, 1948 Not recovered This was a test of a single 7-foot balloon made of .001" polyethylene, carrying a 4-kilogram payload. Onepart of the load was the first model of an automatic ballast siphon used to detect and telemeter the amount of ballast being discharged throu~h an auto~tic ballast valve. The balloon flew at 7000 teet MSL across a heated desert area and into a motmtain paas whose elevation was about 6000 feet MSL. During the first two hours its behavior was reported by radio, and the accompanying time- height curve (Figure 28) shows how the ballast valve operated successfully 1010 - IMO IIOCi 1110 1140 1100 IIIII 1140 1100 Figure 28 to sustain the balloon. During this turbulent flight about 200 grams of ballast were expendod per hour6 but the pronounc·ed orographic and convective currents probably necessitated more control than would be required in a more stable e.tmosphere. The very usef.ul information about be.llast flow was reported clearly, and the principle of the auto-siphon was used repeatedly on later flights. Small variations are seen in the pressure at which the ballast flow began. Since the balloon was floating below the base of clouds, this represents the changes of activation pressure which resulted from changes of superheat of the air entrapped in the aneroid. -35-
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