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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. 228 …CBI and the Spilhaus came over later. At that time the war was going very much…
  • p. 235 …of the regular 334 that we had at sea level. From that they could deduce the…
  • p. 279 …at the Toms River Signal Laboratory, which was actually located on the jurisdictional lines between Sea…
  • p. 280 …instrument, and it was done there at the Sea Girt Inn. Q: Do you recall any…
  • p. 400 …about 24,000.m1lea at sea level, aDd about '500 allea at 45,000 feet~ Aa…
  • p. 407 …were twenty-five (25) feet at their ls.rgest sea-level diameter. The sonic unit was…
  • p. 466 …per hour when one-fifth inf~ated at sea level). One other type of balloon which…
  • p. 490 …Let us, then, compare the rate of leakage at any given altitude with leakage at sea…
  • p. 492 …The leakage at any altitude may be expressed as a function of leakage at sea level…
  • p. 493 Comparing rete of leakage at 40,000 feet with leakage at sea level: ~ 188 .u§. - 0…
  • p. 495 …It a 20-foot diameter balloon~ full were tested at 10 sea level and found to…
  • p. 496 …At sea level this is equivalent to 5.32 ~r. for a 20-foot diameter balloon…
  • p. 502 …Using the rules of subsonic aerodynamics, Picard suggests that air at sea level escaping at 1333…
  • p. 503 …of air at see level (lb./ft.3) pressure of air at sea level (psi) escape…
  • p. 520 …about 20 millibars and increased to sea-level pressure at different temperatures. The most comprehensive series…
  • p. 654 …The height above mean sea level as determined fram pressure measurements used in this work with…
  • p. 686 …to a thtmble a.nd attached to re1n forced pCltches at alterna.te .sea.m.s…
  • p. 736 …to identify the point at which the radiosonde reaches the sea surface. 2. Earlier attempts There…
  • p. 737 …The tensile strength at the temperatures at which the balloon flies at high altitude may be…
  • p. 801 …to <;:ee ::einnegle at office. Vet Gifford ;.;ho has 0 0' sea rescue boat this project…
  • p. 816 …Worzel working on gravity at sea. Saw Geo Woollard and the Ryders. Woollard after Guggenheim fellowship…
  • p. 887 …as the length of an uninflated bubble at the crown of the balloon. Graph 2 of…
  • p. 925 …altitude of the balloon at all times with respect to sea level. On this curve also…
  • p. 933 …Load on the gas at release (balloon plus equipment load weight). Pressure Altitude: The altitude. at…
bursting at pressure altitude.
A series of for.ms which have been used to facilitate computations
have been drawn up. They are included in Appendix 3, together with a table
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of altitudes based on the N.A.C.A. Standard Atmosphere , and other useful
reference tables.
Glossary
Equipmen~ load: Weight of all equipment, rigging, and ballast hung from
the balloon shrouds not including balloon or its integral
parts.
Gross load: Load on the gas at release (Balloon plus equipment load weight).
Free lift: Net lift of the balloon with the equipment load attached.
Gross lift: Lift of all of the gas in the balloon at release (Equals weight
of the balloon, equipment load plus the free lift).
Balloon inflation: Gas inflation to be given the balloon in terms of
initial lift of the balloon (equals weight of equip-
ment load plus free lift plus allowance for gas
losses before launching).
Floor: The locus of altitudes at which a balloon will float when lift
losses are exactly compenseted for on a demand basis by ballast
dropping. In practice, this is deter.mined bythe operation of
the automatic ballast release and is some altitude below the ceiling.
Ceiling: The locus or pressure altitudes at which a non-extensible balloon
will float When gas losses are slightly over-compensated for by
ballast losses.
Pressure Altitude: The altitude at which a non-extensible balloon becomes
fully inflated.
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