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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…
tourth ballast-flow periods. this rise in "ceiling" is attributed to the
cooling of' the air entrapped ~ the aneroid of the .autoiD8.tic ballast 'Vlllve.
This decrease of pressure of' 21 mb corresponds to a loss of SOC of superheat.
In each of' the four periods of' ballast flow. there was enou~1 unnecessary
ballast lost to cause an overshoot vmen the balloon returned to its floating
level. This excess ballast was that used during the period when the balloon
had begun to rise but was still below activation altitude of' the automatic
ballast valve. The inefficient use of ballast was one of' the major objections
to such a control :;yste::n.
On this flight the ballast load of 3 kilograms was exhausted in only
three hours, indicating a large loss of gas from this particular balloon.
It is believed that the large initial acceleration provided by the rapid de-
scent of the balloon caused the restoring force, and the subsequent over-
shoot, to be very large, and the high ballast flow is probably much greater
than "Was the loss of buoyancy on this t'light.
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