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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…
tuel~ usually give a coating Which is too coarse
grained and heavy. In smoking the drum a long
rod is used as a rotating axis. The drum is ro-
tated rapidly in the flame so as to prevent
overheating and oxidizing of the foil. The car-
bon should not be so thick as to obscure the
metallic appearance of the aluminum foil.
(e) Calibrate the barograph for pressur~. The in-
strument is placed in a bell jar and the air
evacuated. The pressure is kept constant at a
number of pressures so that as the drum turns a
step, record is made on the -.>ked foil. Pressure
recording starts at about 500 millibars so the
first level in the calibration should be at that
value. At each level the pressure should be kept
constant for three to five minutes in order to
obtain a measurable line. Great care and consid-
erable practise are required to control the valves
of the vacuum system so that the pressure does
not change noticeably during each step.
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The pressure ~teps at which the barograph 18 cali-
brated may be either at regular pressure intervals
. or at the pressure values corresponding to regular
height intervals according to the standard at-
mosphere figures. The recommended steps are
listed below. If the balloon is not expected to
go to the higher altitudes, the calibration may
be stopped at correspondingly higher pressures.
Pressures Standard Atmos~here Heights
500 mb 466 mb corresponding to 20,000 ft.
400 mb 300 mb If II ~o.ooo ft.
300 mb 188.5 mb " II 40,000 ft.
200 mb 117 mb II
" 50,000 ft.
150mb 72.8 mb II II 60,000 ft.
100mb 45.3 mb " II 70,000 ft.
50mb 28.2 mb " " 80,000 ft.
10 mb 17.5 mb " II 90,000 ft.
10.9 mb II II 100,000 ft.
The temperature calibration may be made by recording
two widely spaced temperatures, s.uch as room tem-
perature and the temperature of dry ice (-78°C).
This celibration will be approximately a straight
line and, therefore, two points are sufficient
to plot the curve.
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