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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…
Fligpt 98: Released from Red Bank, New Jersey, 0948 EST, October 28, 1948
Not recovered
On Flight 98 a 20-foot, .001" polyethylene balloon was used to test
radio reception using a new model of the Olland-cycle modulator and a T-69
radiosoncl.e transmitter. Three receiving stations were used, with elevation
and admuth angles ae well as the pressure altitude recorded by BDF (SCR-659)
equipnent. The trajectory of this flight (Figure 46), reconstructed from the
data received at the r;ound station, indicates that the balloon was more than
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celved. This reception is much greater than may be expected from most
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