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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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Additional :;!etai]~s of the ~perature and wind structure can
be obtained by placing ~crophones near the tropopause where the velocity of sounc
is at a minimum. To our .knowledge, no one has ever tried such an experiment, ~nd
in ord~r to do this new equipment had to ·~ developed, sinca wind produces strong
nois.a in any microphone it was obvious ti•.!: t tlia detectors could not be us~d on an
aircraft 1 It was further believed that the noise level of .:on instrwn~nt. }:J:·lete anal~·sis, but tt can be stnted tho.t.
observed results ~enerally ~gree Nitt p~cdictions ~as~ct upon theory.
Observations of the t:-'avel tiuss of 'Aaves frc.u en explosive source has
yielded a considerable amount of jata on tne te;nr.erlltu!'e an1 wi..nd structare of the
at·t.osrh re u,~: to altitude of 11bour. )~ :{31 ( 160,CcC t'e~t). The i.nterpret.aticn of the
data l':as :so far been oe.sed on .seo.::1etrical ·.cr.·~·e theory, and leafis to a ·1ariation of
prora:sation velocity ·Hitt altit:.1de 'lft.ich is in reasonable &1reer.ten.t with other
lines of Q.Vidence. Th~re are, howecer, seve:al observed facts which cannot be ex-
rlained on the basis of the ele;tlentary ~eorr..et.rical ray theory, and .require a more
con11:.lete analysis in ter,~.s of ,4~.e theory. They are: --(1) the 11zones of silence",
tlu.t follow ;..ccordi!lJ to 5eoJ,,~tri~c..l ray theory fro..n tti~ initial dec1•ease of velocity
with altitude, wtdch do not .bav.: 3harply Qt#fin~d bound,e.rie S j ( 2) the SaJn8 an::o.rent
o.n~le of a.·~ival is ·:-fter: observed ovel' e± considerable range of distance from the
source, wht:reas on t.i:id ra:; tl.eo:!'y c. ~iven .::.n.:;l~ of arrival was associated with one
p&.rticuL r distance only; U) at lc.r~e d:.stances, the total duration of the si~nals re
is very much ~reater t.t.~n co.n be ex! lained by ray theory, and the character of tild
signal received is tn~;.t of a lon · train of waves ;;,f v.aryin:; a:nplitude. Wll.l !re~uency rc.
a limited numbt!r oi' well defined transient fulses.
frelilninary studies indicc.te the.t all of these facts may be eXJ::lained
qualatatively by more complete ifeve theoretical analysis of the diffraction of wave
enerzy into .the regions thr.t are zones of silence in th~ .dement< ry ray tlieory, ~nd 1'u.
work, aimed at quantative treatment is in 1-ro~ress. UntU an analysis of t.i.is Kind ha
been· carried through, one ctn not feel too IJlUCh conf'idence in att·ampts thc..t h&.ve been
made to nse lq distance sonic and microuarea1etric wave propagation d&.ta to ...teuuuce
at~os· eric temreratures at levels a~ve the second inversion.
In additiun to the theoretical aJ,• roach to tl.:.is problem, cvnddert.t i .m is
bein~ ~iven to the use of s!lrface we.ves on s.h< llo'll water as a .aode.L of Wl:.Vd pro-
pa~ation in the atmos:rh rd. Th<J velocity of surface waves whose ·r1c..ve len~th is gr~c..t~.
than the depth o1' the water is a t'unctilln of the depth, so that t.h.a variation o1 valoc
with c:ltitude in the atmos·hcre co.n be si.nulated on a thin sheet of watar by suitable
contourin · of the bottom. Surface tension and visosity s~t at a lower limi.t of (?_bout
4 em. to the wave len~ths that can ba used in such a model. tith ~ water table a~out
four fet!t wide si.tul; tin?; the at!uos~here up to 50 km. a four C<3nti:nater wave length
·.vo'.lld rer resent a wave len~th in the at!Ilosph re or about 1 mile, or c period of aoout
seconds.
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