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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.

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“Encounters”18 pages

  • 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…
Flight 81: Released from Alamogordo, N6W Mexico, 0548 MST, August 6, 1948
Not rec.overed
The balloon flown on this flight was made of .004" polyethylene, and it
was eggplant shape about 20 feet in diameter and 25 .feet long. The first o.f'
its kind, this balloon was made by Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Inc.
Only a short period o.f' radio reception was obtained, but during this time
the balloon rose with predicted speed (500 feet per minute) nearly to its
predicted altitude (40,000 .feet) and floated within 1500 feet of the 37,000-
.f'oot level. Figure 34 is the height-time curve for this flight.
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Figure 34
Since the balloon ttid not descend far enough below its maximum altitude
to activate the minimum-pressure switch and the automatic ballast valve, no
ballast flow data was telemetered wnile the balloon was within the radio
range. This indicates a verJ low rate o.f' gas loss through the walls of this
balloon.
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