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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. 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- -56-
  • p. 915 …is measurable by the distance be- tween the reference marks. If there is a sudden -61-
  • 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…
change in motor speed of five percent or more
from the preceding rotation, the pressure value
should be rejecteq. A slow, continuous change
in speed from minute to minute may be neglected
since it is probably a unifonn change through•
out the rotation period. The motor speed will
decrease during the flight, as a resul~ of the
low temperatures and the drop in battery voltage.
This of itself does not decrease the value of
the record, as long as the speed does not nhange
suddenly.
(e) Olland.Cycle Pressure Element Specific«tions
(1) Pressure range: 1050 to 5mb.
(2) Desired accuracy: Surface to 300 mb ts mb.
300 mb to 50 mb t2 mb.
50 mb to 5 mb leu than t2 mb, il mb if
possible.
Highest accuracy and readability desired
on low pressure end. Temperature compensa-
tion, as required to meet pressure accuracy
requirements for temperature, range •30°
to -7000 or equivalent for medium and high
altitude flights. Mean operating tempera-
ture required more than 0°C.
(3) Helix:
Cylinder--made of insulating material with
low temperature coefficient.
Diameter 3/4 inch to l inch, length 2!
inch.
Spiral--made of nickel or other metal which
does not corrode in the atmosphere, .010
inch or less in diameter.
Eight turns per inch on cylinder.
Check-points--Six points located between
turns of spiral, starting with 9th turn,
60 degrees apart.
Made of the same material as the spiral.
In the electrical circuit of .the pressure
signal.
Suggested shape 1/16 inch diameter, round
pin, flush with surface of helix.
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