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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.
“Marks”24 pages
- p. 5 …Additionally, historians Alfred Beck, William Heimdahl, Roger Miller, Eduard
Mark, and Jacob Neufeld shared with us…
- p. 10 …Security markings have been deleted from previously classified documents. The reader
is advised that blacked-out…
- p. 35 …covered the years 1945-1949, that were marked on the index as "destroyed." The
researchers noted…
- p. 39 …I do not recall any other types of material
or markings, nor do I remember seeing…
- p. 41 figures on the sticks, lavender or pink in color, appeared to be weather faded
markings, with…
- p. 51 …UFO buffs contend the incident marked the
beginning of a government conspiracy to sup-
press evidence…
- p. 99 …Although we cannot be absolutely
sure that the histories marked "no holding" in the above list…
- p. 167 …No marks in the ground, dug up,
anything hidden, or anything like that, just out on…
- p. 201 …Some bush pilot had found some pock marks in dty snow in Alaska in 1950. So…
- p. 219 …When this
purplish-pink marking on the debris came up, I immediately
remembered this sort of…
- p. 220 …men, and they were joking about these markings on the
tape. I have a letter that…
- p. 224 …No, because he said it was balsa sticks and smoky
rubber and had those curious markings…
- p. 230 …White Sands to record Hermes."
I've marked the key things here with red, and then…
- p. 309 …in color,
appeared to be weather faded markings, with no rhyme or reason. He did not…
- p. 329 …the wreckage, also remembers the
purple/pink marks. Newton stated that when he was called to…
- p. 558 …On this flight re-
cord, marked oscillations are observed at three points. Despite the presence
of…
- p. 563 …KENT, TEXAS
Figure 25
On Flight 71 marked oscillations are seen at the fleeting level and…
- p. 566 …From the height-t~e curve of this flight (Figure 29)
the very marked effect of…
- p. 567 …Pre-
sumably the marked easterly flow then observed above 60.000 feet carried this
second flight…
- p. 667 …Figure 46 shows the train; figure 47 shows the time-altitude curve, Which
exhibits a marked…
- p. 910 …minute, the distance between successive re-
ference marks will be 30 to 40 centimeters de-
-56-
- p. 915 …is measurable by the distance be-
tween the reference marks. If there is a sudden
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- p. 920 …are
reached.
(c) Check pressure of the marking pens. Too much
pressure of the pens on…
- p. 923 …This may
be done by measuring the horizontal distance be-
tween the temperature and pressure marks…
mainte.n&nce ot the purity of the lifting gas. this balloon floated in a
region of very low preasure. thus reducing the loss of buoyancy by diffu-
sion.
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BATTENS OF .ou•-tl'ST OR 24ST ALUMINUM,
EDGES COVERED WITH MYSTIK TAPE. I BATTENS
ItO• APART!. BENT IN FIELD TO FORM LIIHT
CLQSURE 01' APPENDIX.
Figure 30: Aluminum battens for balloon appendix
A third factor contributing to the long flight was the heat gained by
adiabatic compression of the helium during descent. In the temperature in-
version of the stratosphere this adiabatic heating would add to the buoyancy
by superheating the lifting gas.
From this flight it becomes apparent that the control required to maintain
buoyancy at high levels is much smaller than that at low levels. On the next
day. before Flight 75 had ended. a second 70-foot balloon was flown with
standard automatic ballast controls. and this flight 11as never recovered. Pre-
sumably the marked easterly flow then observed above 60.000 feet carried this
second flight into the Pacific Ocean.
Radar~ RDF and theodolite were used to track the balloon.
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