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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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- p. 17 …Others remain nonbelievers or
at least skeptical of the existence of alien beings and elusive vehicles…
- p. 19 …Moreover, operational necessity required that these balloons be launched during daylight
hours. It was therefore not…
- p. 30 …This has since grown from a minimal amount of debris recovered from
a small area to…
- p. 35 …This included, for example, a small
amount of missing "decimal files" from the 509th Bomb Group…
- p. 36 …This was a small section of the July Historical Report for the 509th Bomb Group
and…
- p. 37 …To believe that such operational and high-level security activity could be
conducted solely by relying…
- p. 39 …The foil-rubber material could not
be tom like ordinary aluminum foil can be tom... "
Sally…
- p. 40 …Although there does not appear to be much dispute that
Cavitt was involved in the material…
- p. 43 …Lt Col Cavitt described a small area of debris which appeared, "to
resemble bamboo type square…
- p. 72 …being per:ormed on these bodies.
The bodies were described as the body of a small…
- p. 99 …It should be noted that the period from approximately 1946 to 1950 is the least well…
- p. 105 …Several small projects were completed during ~1e mont.~ includine
signs on all the·office doors, a…
- p. 149 …Streett 1s
office recaumends against it on the ground that that is a
small enterprize down…
- p. 159 …I do not recall the incident being mentioned again as being any big
deal and I…
- p. 201 …We even simulated a small lightning strike over dry snow (just
from the snow blowing over…
- p. 258 …Big plastic
balloon with small auxiliary plastics," etc. "Watson Lab and
gear." "Followed" (inaudible) "receiver until…
- p. 261 …explain bodies or material that can't be
folded) by a sledge hammer.
Q: Let's…
- p. 328 …The witnesses have recalled small pink/purple "flowers" that appeared I to be
some sort of…
- p. 401 …b7 how ra*
the receiver •7 be re110ve~ .t'rows the pre~er. red height withqut…
- p. 443 …geostrophic wind (the latter being
derived under certain simplifying assumptions) and since the
geometry of the…
- p. 458 …Two designs which compro-
mise extreme cost (required for balloons of high internal pressure)
with small…
- p. 479 …This means that several hours might be required to fall through
the lanes of aircraft traffic…
- p. 484 …The change in drag effect may be realized by a decrease of
relative size of the…
- p. 487 (a)
Then:
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or for small temperature differences:
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the nega…
- p. 490 …gas of a balloon can be lost by:
leakage through small holes in the fabric or…
- p. 491 …for l:n•y small section of altitude is assumed
to be constant); and re.J…
- p. 506 in the preceding, section on diffusion end leakage the appendix
opening should be small. It can…
- p. 521 …is li~ited as indicated
above, small variations may be detected with the result
that it…
- p. 555 …being exposed about 10 hours
at cold temperature. (:S) During the floating period :many small oscilla…
- p. 565 …The very usef.ul information about be.llast flow was reported clearly, and
the principle of…
- p. 566 …Since the small external appendix with cardboard stiffeners was not
suitable for the large balloon, a…
- p. 580 …Following the initial activation at about 38,500 feet, small oscillations were
introduced into the flight…
- p. 614 …Figure 4 shows this appendix construction on a General M lls balloon which
is being inflated…
- p. 652 …At high altitudes, a difference of 40°C may
be expected in the temperature of the…
- p. 658 …To facilitate handling of the
line segments each length is prepared with a small hook on…
- p. 672 signals may be arranged so as to consume a very
small portion of -transmission time.
D…
- p. 738 …These values may
be compared with a diffusion loss of lift of the order
of magnitude…
- p. 742 …The constancy of level will be better the lower the
diffusion and the lower, therefore, the…
- p. 762 …te
.::mrcht:.se of small item£. A furth..:r rec:uest ~s been subr:rl tte…
- p. 783 …be of such a valve that
with a large r~diosonde frequency variation for a small…
- p. 785 …It is expected that this
equipment will be flown about 8 l-1ay. A description of…
- p. 815 …Before gear could be recovered, most of it had be~~tolen. Stations operating
at north hanger…
- p. 842 …Range started to slowly increase as did elevation with azimuth being
stationary. The echo remained beyond…
- p. 862 …By using this
stressed tape design, much larger loads may be carried than
the thin polyethylene…
- p. 874 …At this point, two small holes about
18" apart have been made, and the rip line…
- p. 881 …If thodolite stadia determinations are being
made, the banner can be used as one of the…
- p. 898 …laid out, A small amount of gas at very low pressure
Should be valved into the…
- p. 910 …The motor gears may be cleaned with
carbon tetrachloride and a small clean brush.
If the…
- p. 918 …Each combination of dots or dashes may be identified
by ear, and with a calibration chart…
s4cond cluster flight, provision was also made to release balloons if the
train rose above 40,000 ft. The flying line in the second train was
approximately 500 ft. long.
This cluster flight is tedious to prepare and difficult to
launch, and is a greater hazard to aircraft than the plastic balloons
will be because of the great length of the cluster train.
III e) Apparatus and Equipment.
A detailed explanation is not given on the equipment of the
Cluster Flight. However, a layout sketch is enclosed in the appendix.
An important piece of new apparatus for this project is the ballast
valve or dribbler, a photograph aDd drawings of which appears in the
appemix. It consists of a special diaphragm which operates a needle
valve. Normally the valve is closed as the diaphragm·is open to the air
before the balloon reaches the desired altituie. This allows the
pressure inside the diaphragm to be the same as the outside pressure.
The diaphragm is sealed electrically qy the baroswitch of the flight
radiosome \-Then the balloon train passes a predetermined altitude.
~enever the balloon train cescends below this preset altitude, the
increase of pressure on the sealed diaphragm causes the needle valve to
be opened. The greater the excess in pressure on the diaphragm the more
ballast there is releaseo through the valve. Thus a pro9ortional restoring
force is applied to the train. The ballast that is to be used is a
petroleum cut boiling from 300° to 4000F wi t!l a density of a. bout • 78 and
a minimum change of viscosity with temperature. Two different type
Uuid~ that may reet this specification are the Army type compass fluid
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