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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.
“Albuquerque”14 pages
To reduce the effect of ~rying fluid heads and a corresponding variation in valve calibration, a ballast reservoir mounting was devised to limit the head values. This ballast reservoir, after several modifica- tiona, consists of a spun alwninum tank wi til filter, mounted on 18-inch legs. It is shown in Figure 15. The legs serve as supports for the other control units and a head of at least one foot is provided by tubing to the autODI8.tic ballast valve. The capacity of the reservoir is approximately five gallons. Figures 16 and 17 show the complete ballast release assembly. One other system of altitude control may be mentioned. This is the 4 method used by Korff and others to roughly approximate constant level flights for cosmic ray investi!ations. A numberat meteorological balloons are inflated until they will just support tl:e flight load. A ff!IW other balloons are added to the train to give a free lift appropriate for the desired rate of rise (see Computations, Section 3). At some time after release these "lifter" balloons burst due to over-inflation, or are released by a pressure or time-activated mechanism. lf the original balance was correct, and the effects of superheat and diffusion can~el each other, the cluster of cells may float. When one or more of the balloons breaks, or leaks excessively. the train will descend. Although this method was used in early experimental flights it proved to be useful only as a stop-gap method of carrying gear aloft for test purposes. No modification of this basic technique seems likely to produce even a consistant flight pattern due to the uncertainty of properties and behavior of these inherently unstable balloons. C. Altitude Detennination In order to evaluate the performance of the basic control apparatus, an investigation of pressure-measuring equipment and telemetering gear has been made. The problems of measuring upper-air conditions in general - 10 -
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