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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…
Flig}lt 102: Released f'rom Red Bank, New Jersey, 1023 EST, December 9, 1948
Not recovered
Flight 102 was the first teat given to a 30-foot, .ool" polyethylene bal-
loon manufactured by General Mills, Inc.J with this balloon a 30-kilogram pay-
load was successfully lifted to 58,000 feet. A combination rate-of-ascent
switch and displacement switch was used to control ballast flow, but no record
of ballast was made since the ballast meter was broken at launching.
Flight data was received by three ground stations, and the signal from the
AM-1 transmitter (with about 10 pounds of batteries) was received for about
400 miles. This was a good test of the distance to which a signal may be
transmitted by the AM-1 (N.Y.U) transmitter under daytime conditions. The
trajectory of this flight is Figure 48.
STEW .. !IT
ffi
M.!=..u
··~··01010,... ... .,
------·-· ····- --- ·• --~ ---1'
• Io!IAJIC:TORY- FLo•wT 10.! 1
RELI..ASED AT RED BANK, N.J.,
DEc:. 9-1~411- 1023ESr
+---~-- ----------- ·-
Figure 48
In the height-time curve (Figure 49) it is interesting to note the descent
Which began shortly before sunset. · There is reason to believe that this
fall was being checked by ballast flow. The normal descent atter a balloon
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