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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.
“Marks”24 pages
- p. 5 …Additionally, historians Alfred Beck, William Heimdahl, Roger Miller, Eduard
Mark, and Jacob Neufeld shared with us…
- p. 10 …Security markings have been deleted from previously classified documents. The reader
is advised that blacked-out…
- p. 35 …covered the years 1945-1949, that were marked on the index as "destroyed." The
researchers noted…
- p. 39 …I do not recall any other types of material
or markings, nor do I remember seeing…
- p. 41 figures on the sticks, lavender or pink in color, appeared to be weather faded
markings, with…
- p. 51 …UFO buffs contend the incident marked the
beginning of a government conspiracy to sup-
press evidence…
- p. 99 …Although we cannot be absolutely
sure that the histories marked "no holding" in the above list…
- p. 167 …No marks in the ground, dug up,
anything hidden, or anything like that, just out on…
- p. 201 …Some bush pilot had found some pock marks in dty snow in Alaska in 1950. So…
- p. 219 …When this
purplish-pink marking on the debris came up, I immediately
remembered this sort of…
- p. 220 …men, and they were joking about these markings on the
tape. I have a letter that…
- p. 224 …No, because he said it was balsa sticks and smoky
rubber and had those curious markings…
- p. 230 …White Sands to record Hermes."
I've marked the key things here with red, and then…
- p. 309 …in color,
appeared to be weather faded markings, with no rhyme or reason. He did not…
- p. 329 …the wreckage, also remembers the
purple/pink marks. Newton stated that when he was called to…
- p. 558 …On this flight re-
cord, marked oscillations are observed at three points. Despite the presence
of…
- p. 563 …KENT, TEXAS
Figure 25
On Flight 71 marked oscillations are seen at the fleeting level and…
- p. 566 …From the height-t~e curve of this flight (Figure 29)
the very marked effect of…
- p. 567 …Pre-
sumably the marked easterly flow then observed above 60.000 feet carried this
second flight…
- p. 667 …Figure 46 shows the train; figure 47 shows the time-altitude curve, Which
exhibits a marked…
- p. 910 …minute, the distance between successive re-
ference marks will be 30 to 40 centimeters de-
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- p. 915 …is measurable by the distance be-
tween the reference marks. If there is a sudden
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- p. 920 …are
reached.
(c) Check pressure of the marking pens. Too much
pressure of the pens on…
- p. 923 …This may
be done by measuring the horizontal distance be-
tween the temperature and pressure marks…
The method used heretofore is variation of balloon
load through changes in the amount of ballast used.
However. there are upper and lower limits on the
amount of ballast that can be used. due to 'the
strength limitations of the fabric. Also. the "height
sensitivity"; that is. the ratio of change in altitude
to Change in load. is not great enough to provide suit-
able choice of heights.
B. Another attack is to effect a change of volume by
making openings below the equator of the balloon.
The volume of gas contained in the balloon envelope
is then obviously limited.
c. If this method of height control proves to be un-
satisfactory. still other control mechanisms will be
sought.
The three objectives. with their indicated subdivisions. will be
pursued to better effect control of the balloon altitude. A parallel
pursuit will be the investigation of other balloon types and sizes. in
addition to the satisfactory General Mills Polyethylene models now in
use. Thus. plans for the future include both the development of control
devices currently under test and also a.broad. general study of 'the basic
components of constant-level balloon trains from the theoretical as well
as the operational viewpoint.
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