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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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- 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-
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- p. 915 …is measurable by the distance be-
tween the reference marks. If there is a sudden
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- 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…
of 170 grams per hour. A balloon o£ this type with no alti-
tude control stayed aloft for more than two hour• and atter
reaching ceiling. the altitude did not vary by more ~
1500 feet while the balloon was within range of the ebaeninl
station.
The preparation and launching techniques di.au1&ed tor the
20-foot balloon apply also to the 30-foot cell. No fu~th•r
discussion is required for the 30-foot balloon.
The 70-foot balloon seen in Figures 41 and 42 is launched in
the same manner as the 20-foot cell. A much larger amount
of gas is required and since it is valved rapidly into the
balloon, it has been found necessary to pass the gas through
a heating coil to prevent it from reaching the balloon so
adiabatically cooled as to be incapable of lifting the
load. This heater is shown in Figure 43. Due to the large
lift and area exposed to the wind at launching, the large
cell may be dangerous if personnel attempt to hold the gear
or act as anchors. If possible, al} gear ..should be laid out
downwind to be picked up from the ground by the balloon. The
anchor should be a winch mounted on a truck which can move
around the balloon so as to be downwind at launching.
Since the altitudes where the 70-foot balloons normally float
are high in the stratosphere, the natural stability of the bal-
loon in the temperature inversion keeps these cells up for
a long period of time without ballast or other controls. One
such flight fell slowly during a period of 75 houra and was
still above 65,000 feet when the barograph record ended.
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