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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. 18 …Trakowski, a young Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate, followed Duffy in the leadership role. Determining whether…
  • p. 27 …It is within this context that the following research and assistance efforts were conducted in support…
  • p. 38 …the object found resem- bles a high altitude weather balloon with a radar reflector.... disc and…
  • p. 51 …The crash o( a mysterous object 75 miles northwest of Roswell, which the Air Force lat…
  • p. 98 …In addition, the following rubrics were identified for insertion into the Agency's finding aids: Roswell…
  • p. 99 related to unidentified flying objects and/ or the crash of a weather balloon near the base…
  • p. 100 …The following key words or phases were entered: ROSWELL UFO UFOS UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT UNIDENTIFIED FLYING…
  • p. 115 HO Input tor 8 Peb 89 Statt Meetin& The following are two old Uems from the…
  • p. 325 …The objective during this trip was to experiment with the newly developed polyethylene balloons which replaced…
  • p. 512 …The primary objective of such telemetering was to collect data to evaluate the altitude controls applied…
  • p. 596 …the valve stuck and a constant flow at 1800 grams per hour followed. The rising ceiling…
Flight l04a Released from Alamogordo, New Mexico, 1123 MST, Feburary 5, 1949
RecOV"ered atHale Center, Texas
On 1hil flight a atepwiae floating level •• achieved by the dropping of
weight from the 20;..foot, .001• polyethylene ballocm. From the height-time
curve (Figure 53) the clillb from 35,000 teet IISL to 4:'7 ,000 MSL can be seen.
A time clock •• uae4 to atart the rapid flow ot ballaat after about one hour
at the 1'1rat lenl. Following the exhauation of all ballast, the ballast
reaervoir itaelf waa releaaed to cauae the final riae of the balloon.
By the u.e of thia teobllique. atmospheric aam.pling ot any kind may be
conducted with two or aon lenla aampled on • single flight. lll thout using
any control to Jteep the balloon constantly at a given altitude tor a long
time, the sampling steps should not be expected to be much longer than one
hour apiece.
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Released al Alamogordo,N.M.
Feb.5,1948- 1123 M.SI
ReccJI88d at ttie Orier, 'Ill.
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