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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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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 6 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. - 21 -
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