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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.
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Index (All references are to flight numbert. The number of the flight on which a particular instrument or principle wa~ first demonstrated is underlined. For example, airborne radio direction finding was first used on Flight 41.) Adiabatic temperature changes, 60, 75, 94 Airborne radio ~irection•finding, 41, •103, 110 - Airoratt tracking, 5, 7, 11, 12, 13- 20, 86, 108 Air flow deformation of, over moUf1ta1n range, ll geostrophic, compared with balloon trajec toriea, 55, 58 • 106, llO Altitude sensitivity, 52, 82, 86, 110 Appendices (external) on polJ'Ithylene balloons first use of, 13 need for, demoilstra ted, lZ stiffened with cardboa~. 20, 39 stiffened with metal, .!! - Arrays of rubber balloons cluster, 7 linear, 6 Atmospheric oscillations, 10, 52, 55, 58, 63, 71 Automatic P&llast valve effect of superheat on, 10, 74, 80, 92 first activated by minimum-pressure nitch, 12 first use or, 5 sunset effect on, 80, 90, 92 typical f'light with, 92 Ballast meter need f'or, demonstrated, 29-39 use of, 74, 78, 80, 86, 89, 90, 92 94, 9'6."102 Ballast requirements with .ool", 7'-diameter poly• ethylene balloons, 74 with .cxn•, 20'•cU.ameter pol-7- ethylene balloons, 64, ae. 60, 80, 92, 106 68 Ballast requirements (oont'd.) with .oos•, 15 •-di...._r polyethylene balloCD, ll with Seytanc balloCIIl, 94 Balloons flights using other than pol,.thylene neoprene-coated nylon (Seyfan!), 59, 63, 79, 94 rubber, 5, 7 shrouded rubber (Dewey and Alley'), 23, 38, 66, 87 fl~ghts using polyethylene .001",7'-diameter, 74 .001",20'-diamster,~ .001",70'-diamster, W .001",30'-diameter, 102 .004",20'-diameter, W .oo8",15'·diameter, ~ Barograph longest record ~f, 75 need for~ demonstrated, 17, 29, 30, 32 use of (Fergusson), 33, 35, 39 use of new model (Lange), 52 Buoyancy changes in, due to sunset, 75, 90 natural Seyfang balloons in the troposphere, 79 1' -diameter polyethy.iene balloons in the troposphere, 86 20'-diameter polyethylene balloons in the stratoJphere, 60, 96 20'-diameter polyethylene balloons in the troposphere, 70, 71, 88, 93, 98 70'-diameter polyethylene balloons in the stratosphere, 76 Combination control (rate of ascent ballast switch with displacement switch) first use of, 102 typical flight~th, 106 Controls first use of automatic ballast valve, 5
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