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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…
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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