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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.
“Roses”8 pages
Flight 80: Released at Alamogordo, New Mexico, 1126 MST, July 2,, 1948
Recovered at. Rincon, New Mexico
On this f'light an automatic ballast valve activated by a minimum-pressure
switch was used to support a .OOl", 20..foot polyethylene balloon. From the
height-time cum (Figure 33) it may be seen that the balloon remained at its
maximum height for two hours, then began to descend slowly. A ballast meter
waa in use, and no ballast flow was recorded until the balloon descended to
about 30,000 feet. It is likely that the mercury minimum-pressure switch was
i'rozen at the higher levels, or the. t the squib 'Which the switch controlled
failed to detonate until a higher pressure was reached.
FLIGHT 80
Released at Alamogcrdo,N.M
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at Rincon,N.M.
25,1948
Figure 33
Follawin~ the activation of the aneroid capsule of the automatic bal~t
valve, ballast was released in four separate blocks. Wi t..ll each flaw of
ballast except the fo~rt~, the balloon was returned to the seal-off pressure
of the aneroid with no change in this pressure (321 m~:::28,500feet;~. The
fourth ballast-flow period lasted until the balloon had risen to 300 mb{30,000
teet) and ballast cut off there. Since the sun had set between the third and
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