The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert

Flight 5: Released from Alamogordo, New Mexico, 0517 MST, June 5, 1947 Recovered at Roswell, New Mexico In this flight, a 55-pound load was lifted with a linear array of 28 350-gram rubber balloons. By attaching the balloons at 20-foot intervals along the load line, a total length of about 600 feet was required. The train is shown in Figure 1. For altitude control, three lifting balloons Figure 1: Train, Flight 5 were cut free at 35,000 feet, and the remaining load was weighted to balance at that point. As a precaution against over-buoyancy, three more balloons