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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. 28 …In all, he estimated, the entire lot would have weighed maybe five pounds. There was no…
  • p. 231 …It was like a 500 pound rack with a receiver, frequency meter, recorder, etc., and we…
  • p. 233 …About one pound. A: correct. And the targets are nominally maybe a quarter of a pound…
  • p. 238 …They went and got a whole bunch of soo pound bombs out of the Earl Ammunition…
  • p. 258 …Third balloon with two and a half pound stick of TNT and cap set by pressure…
  • p. 263 …releasing something like maybe several hundred 500 pound bombs for this. At the same time, Trakowski…
  • p. 323 …I 4 inches wide, and weighing 13 pounds (Atch 4). The sonabuoy contained both the acoustical…
  • p. 379 …have weighed maybe five pounds. rancher living 30 mlles south. east bright wreckage made up on…
  • p. 408 …six (6) scientists and twelve (12) thousand pounds of' equipnent from BElliAR, NEV; JERSEY to KWAJALErn…
  • p. 475 …Dry ice consumption at -GOOF is approxi- mately 150 pounds for a 24-hour period. It…
  • p. 483 …is free lift in pounds and G is gross lift in pounds. Although this equation was…
  • p. 536 …New Mexico In this flight, a 65-pound load was lifted with a linear array of…
  • p. 538 …and tour larger lifting balloons, a 53-pound load was carried alott on this flight. At…
  • p. 542 …wall) to lift • total load of S5 pounds as high aa posaible (Figure 7). 'lbe small…
  • p. 588 …the AM-1 transmitter (with about 10 pounds of batteries) was received for about 400 miles…
  • p. 608 …Buoyer.cy per Pound Mol of GaS••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••l6 V. Glossary of Term•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••21 VII. Summary of…
  • p. 614 …foot balloon should be held tinder 30 pounds; 2) ratEBot rise should be less than 900…
  • p. 621 …of 50,000 feet, with a 30-pound payload, risea about 900 feet with each kilogr…
  • p. 641 …Given: (l) The pound molar volume of any gas at standard conditions=359 ft. 3 - 15 -
  • p. 642 …2370 fte3 273.2 126 This is the mean pound molar volume at 15 km for…
  • p. 643 …foot diameter, at an altitude where the pound molar volume is 1000 ft. 3 (This is…
  • p. 715 …Suspended from the balloon is a 100 foot one thousand pound test nylon line which carries…
  • p. 736 …The solid-ballast system was complex; approxi- mately 900 pounds of sand was used on each…
  • p. 737 …It has an ultimate tensile strength of 1,900 pounds per square inch at 2SC, which…
  • p. 780 …for attaching rigging lines supporting a ~5-pound load to bottom of balloon ~nd means for…
  • p. 862 …Yii th a 20•foot General Mills balloon, using helium, a payload of 40 pounds will…
  • p. 868 …Thus, if a 40-pound load is to be lifted, it is not safe to use…
  • p. 889 …This is the volume of a pound mol of any gas at those condi- tions. By…
  • p. 893 …Elliptical shot bags, weighing 100 pounds,are used to hold the base of the bubble to…
  • p. 907 …using 15 pounds (7 kilograms) of batteries. Longer periods of transmission may be achieved by intermittent…
  • p. 984 …The detonation, or "shot" (right), of 500 pounds of TNT was monitored at White Sands Proving…
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Abstract from:
AIR COOF.DINSTING COMHITTEE
NEW YORK SUBCO~IITTEE CN AIRSPACE
RULES OF' THE AIR HID .AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL
385 Madison Avenue
New York, 17, N. Y.
N.Y. i-ieeting No. 12. :20 l11arch 1947
PROBLEM:
1. The Secretary of t~e Subcommittee presented a request from the
War Department member in behalf of New York University for approval to
release free balloons from Allentown, ?a. a:rrl Le.kehurst, N. J.
DISCUSSION
2. The subject project is broken down into two phases as described
below:
A. PH.iiSE I.
(1)
(2)
(3}
(4)
The type balloon to be used in this phase of the
project will be 6 ft. in diameter, hydrogen filled,
encompassed qy a. nylong shroud with black and white
penels 24" wide. Radio instrtmlents weighing approxi-
mately 3 lbs. will be suspended ap9roximately 50 ft.
below the balloon an:! equipped with parachute device
so that upon separation from the balloon, the attached
equipment will float down towards the earth rather
than become a freely falling body.
It is anticipated that two flights will be required in
this phase of operation, the release to be made during
weather conditions in which the sky is free of clouds
and the visibility at least three miles at all altitudes
up to 20,000 feet., within a four hour cruising radius
from Allentown, Pa.
The balloon, during these flights, shall be convoyed
by suitable aircraft to maintain air-~rour~ communica-
tions on the balloon trajectory and equip~ed to effect
destruction of the balloon at the termination of four
hours flight or at such time that the balloon may
become hazardous either to aircraft flight operations
or the persons or property of others on the surface.
New York University will file a Notice to Airmen at
least twelve (12) hours in c.:.dvnr...ce -:Jf balloon release
a.Dri a second notice will be filed at the time of release
with the Allentown, Pa. airways Communications Station.
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