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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 …Nevertheless, while the nature of the project remained 2
  • p. 33 …if there was anything of an extraordinary nature involved. This meant that the search was not…
  • p. 37 …generate absolutely no paperwork of a suspicious nature, while simultaneously anticipating that twenty years or more…
  • p. 75 …at your earliest opportunity, of the United States Government's current position on the nature of…
  • p. 159 …Colonel Weaver any information of a classified nature that I may have concerning it. There is…
  • p. 177 …I didn't know, naturally. I could have said after we got back to the office…
  • p. 202 …We used meterology as a cover story-it was a natural. It had a purpose beyond…
  • p. 219 …and almost .like hieroglyphics -- purple, pinkish in nature, that sort of thing. A: I don't…
  • p. 237 …materials, putting out bids, things of this nature. At that point you were working at New…
  • p. 241 …But it was kind of a natural thing to think of in terms of meteorology? A…
  • p. 262 …up your procedures or anything of that nature, or a memo? A: I have no memory…
  • p. 309 …be meteorological equipment or something of that nature and wanted it examined by qualified meteorological personnel…
  • p. 477 …ment was included that oscillations do occur naturally within the atmosphere, apparently as a result of…
  • p. 506 …Therefor~, our ~iscussion will be more of a qualitative rather than a quantitative nature. The general…
  • p. 563 …b&i at controls to determine the natural buoyancy of the General Mills, Inc. 20-foot…
  • p. 584 …level flight obtained ~~s due to the natural buoyancy of the balloon or the action of…
  • p. 596 …This and the general flight pattern indicate the satisfactory nature of this Winzen Research Inc. balloon…
  • p. 598 …changes in, due to sunset, 75, 90 natural Seyfang balloons in the troposphere, 79 1' -diameter…
  • p. 609 …however, much data and details of technical nature were given only in a qualitative way. It…
  • p. 881 …Tracking and Recording Instruments Depending upon the nature of the flight, the weather condi- tions, and…
  • p. 929 …float are high in the stratosphere, the natural stability of the bal- loon in the temperature…
Controls, first use of (cont'd.)
fixed needle-valve ballast leakJl
fixed orifice ballast leak, ~ --
minimum-preuure swi toh w1 thauto-
matic ballast valve, 12
rate-of-ascent ballast sirtoh, 97
rate-of-ascent ballast switch --
combined with displacement
switch, 102
superpre81uri; 23
lifter balloons, r. 7
1olid ballaat, 5, 1
superpressure, 23, 38, 59, 63, 66,
79, 87' 94-
typioal flight with
auto•tic ballaat valn, 92
fixed ballast leak, 82
rate-of-ascent ballast switch
combined with displacement
switch, .!2!.
Deformation of air flow over mountain
range, 11
Destruction device
first use of, 10
first use of new design (ri~-out
principle), ~. (Fig. 16)
Dewey and A~, shrouded rUbber
balloons, ~. 38, 66, 87
Drop sonde, .!!2_
Easterly winds at high levels, 60, 75
Fixed-leak ballast control
first use of, 11
typical flightwith' 82
Flight patterns, typical
with polyethylene balloons and
automat!~ ballast-valve control,
92
with polyethylene balloODa and auto-
matic ballast-valve control
thru a sunset, 90, 92
with polyethylene balloons and
fixed flow of ballast, 82
.Fl.irllt pattenss, :f;ypical loont'd.)
wrth rubber balloons and 1ncreJilbt
ballast loss, 5, 7
Geoetrpphic air flow, compared with
balloon trajectories, 55, 58, 106, 110
Lange barograph
first use of, 52
longest record-or, 75
Litter balloons for altitude control, 5, 7
lleteorograph, Fergusson, ~· 35, 39
Minimum-pressure switch
tailures due to freezing of, 78, 80
first use of, 12
need for, demoiiitrated, 11
Olland-cycle pressure modulator, use of,
~· 52, 55, 68, 73, 97, 98
Oscillations- in the atll.osphere, 10., 62,
65, 58, 63, 71
Polyethylene balloons
7'-diameter, ''• 76, 86, 86
30 1 -diameter,""T02
15 1 -diemeter, W
20'-diameter, !l, 17
70' -diameter, !!
Preasure-measuring instruments
barograph, 3:S
Lange barogii'ph, 52
Olland-o~le modulator, .!!• 52, 56, 58,
73, 97, 98
Program. switch, use of, !,2!
Radar tracking, '15. 86
Radio direction-finding
airborne, .!!.• 103, 110

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