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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…
Flight 90: Released from Alamogordo, New A~xico, 1502 MST, August 27, 1948
Recovered at Roswell, New Mexico
'!he .001", 2Q-foot polyethylene balloon used on this flight was released
in mid-afternoon to provide a test of the sunset efi'ect on a balloon supported
by the automatic ballast valve.
From the height-time curve, Figure· 40, it may be seen that the balloon
had attained a floating altitude shortly before the sunset and that the
action of the automatic ballast 'V8.lve was sufficient to restore the buoyancy
Figure 40
FLIGHT 90
Releoted ot Alomocpdo, N.M.
1948-ISCYlM.ST.
and cause the balloon toegain reach a floating condition. The difference be-
tween the two floating levels ms.y be explained b;r a c·onsidere.tion of the auto-
matic ballast valve and the minimum-pressure switch which was used to seal
off its aneroid capsule. Since the balloon had not fallen far enough to permit
the switch to seal off the valve before sunset, this action was accomplished
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