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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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gears or poor alignment of the rotating cy-
linder. The motor gears may be cleaned with
carbon tetrachloride and a small clean brush.
If the trouble is due to misalignment, the in-
strument should not be used since this will
affect the rotation at a non-uniform rate and
thus destroy the entire accuracy of the record..
Calibrate the instrument. The following equip-
ment is required for the calibration: ·
Vacuum pump
Bell jar
Base plate with at lest 4 electrical leads
Manometer
Tape recorder
The vacuum pump should be capable of evacuating
the bell jar to a pressure lower than that to
be reached by the balloon in flight. A pressure
of ten millibars. corresponding to about
100.000 feet elevation is usually a good minimum.
Four wires are necessary to conduct the six
volts to the motor and to transmit the reference
and pressure signals. The wires must pass out
of the bell jar through an air-tight seal in
the base plate. The base plate also needs a
tube leading to the manometer and a tube to the
vacuum pump. It is advisable to use two sepa-
rate tubes rather than placing the manometer
lead in the same line as the pump lead in order
to obtain the pressure in the bell jar rather
than that in the pumping line.
In operation the negative line of the battery
leads is used as the ground connection of the
output signal.
A tape recorder such as the Brush Development
Co. model BL-902 oscillograph and amplifier
BL-905. is needed to record the signal both
during calibration and during the balloon flight.
The Brush recorder is used at present and the
discussion of the operation will be made in terms
of the characteristics of this instrument. When
using the slow speed of the recorder, which
feeds the paper at the rate of 30 centimeters
per minute, the distance between successive re-
ference marks will be 30 to 40 centimeters de-
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