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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
Fli.g!lt 89: Released from Alamogordo, New Mexico, 1005 MST, August 26, 1948 Not recovered On this flight a .001", 20-foot polyethylene balloon was used to carry a ballast meter to about 45,000 feet to detennine the ballast requirements at that altitude, using an automatic ballast valve. No record of ballast flow was telemetered during this flight, but it is not known whether the ballast meter was inoperative or the ballast valve itself failed--possibly due to failure of a squib to detonate at the combined low pressure and cold temperatures aloft. From the height-time curve, l<'igure 39, it will be noted that the balloon was in a near floating condition for about five hours afterxeaching its maxi- mum altitude. The total weight available on this flight was 2 kg, so a loss of 400 grams per hour would have been required if the ballast was used during this period. From Flights 70 and 71 we know that a balloon has re~Ained for about four hours at slightly higher altitudes with no ballast flow to support it; Flight 89, therefore, is not necessarily an example of the action of the automatic ballast valve control. M~---r----~---.----~--~~--~----T---~----~ 40~ / 1'\ .I V \' I HEIGHT llt.£ CURVE ' I ru~~ ~ 20 -+-+---t-----1 Released d Alamogordo;N.M. t---+------!114--'----1 ·V ~~"="" \ Fig;ure 39 -47-
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