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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. 143 …Robert Gross ar.d 't!r. Jlaher of Lockheed 11~ 55 A.'.!. Gen. Sam Anderson 12…
  • p. 481 …Balloon Volume x Gas Lift Gross Load · It may be noted from this equation that a…
  • p. 482 …Balloon Volume x 24.4 Gross Load K =-w K _ 08.o475Z In turn, w-in…
  • p. 483 …free lift in pounds and G is gross lift in pounds. Although this equation was derived…
  • p. 488 …By equation {10), with a gross load of 52 kg., the unbalance caused by loss of…
  • p. 500 …or a gross buoyancy of 450 lb. • the maximum allowable infle.tion of a 30' diameter…
  • p. 569 …accelerating force equal to 5% of the gross load (52 kg) was acting to bring the…
  • p. 643 …000 feet. In one step, this becomes: Gross Lift/Balloon = (Balloon Volume) x (Difference in molecular…
  • p. 650 (Approximate) where G • gross load A chart, Figure 24, has beendrawn up, based on this equation…
  • p. 652 …G = loss of lift G =gross load (balloon weight plus equipment load) AT : mean temperature difference…
  • p. 653 …not including balloon or its integral parts. Gross load: Load on the gas at release (Balloon…
  • p. 726 …Ballast • • .. • • '" • Total Equipment l~eight. • • • • ' Gross Load • • ' • • • • {56)
  • p. 727 …Balloon volwne x gas litt/mol gross load cu. ft. -----------------NAximum Altitude • • • ft, m.s.l…
  • p. 741 …altitude deter- mined by the displacement and gross load. 7. Control systems Two systems of control…
  • p. 777 …By adjusting th~ gross load to be supported by the gas to equal the total lift…
  • p. 787 …Computations A chart showi~ the relation between altitude, gross lift, and balloon size has been found…
  • p. 883 …The gross load reported should be accurate to the nearest 200 grams. The amount of lifting…
  • p. 885 …A L L 0 0 N 7300 ,, GRoss LoAD Fl G. 17 NYU BALLOON pROJECT I…
  • p. 887 …bubble length and resultant inflated volume, using gross lift as an expression of volume. It will…
  • p. 889 …in Appendix II summarizes the relationship between gross load and floating level for balloons of several…
  • p. 925 …A can of sand is made to weigh the same amount as the required gross lift…
  • p. 933 …the balloon with the equipment load attached. Gross Lift: Lift of all of the gas in…
  • p. 938 …description.______________ Drag chute ---------------------------- Banner description --------------- ---------- Ballast assembly - description -----------~-- Ballast • • • • • • Total Equipment i'ieight • • ' • • • • • • Gross Load • • • • • • • • • • • -86-
  • p. 939 …wnitin_,g________ grams Actual balloon lift • • • • • • • • ". . .• II AActunl gross lift (Balloon lift & balloon wt.) • Number Helium…
  • p. 943 …Gross Lift vs. Bubble Length • • • • • • .107 Graph 3: Buoyancy vs. Altitude • • • • • • • • • .108 Graph 4: Gross Load…
  • p. 955 …BALLOOO DA 'fA General Mills Actual Balloon Estimated Gross Altitude ~ominal Diiameter Volwne Weight Load Limit…
SC: I don't know. It's in the Washington DC area. I forget since I was there in the Washington
area for awhile but I never did get acquainted with the insane asylum.
RW: It's always best to keep it that way.
SC: No, well I put it again, he might have gone off with LaPaz for a few days, but I can't imagine
what excuse I would have been given as to why he'd be out goofing around with an astronomer.
LaPaz was a well thought of individual in New Mexico and, I imagine, all over the United States.
He had quite a reputation.
RW: He did quite a bit of work for the Air Force, as I found through research.
SC: Contract work or something... Yeah.
RW: But there was nothing that you knew of that he did as a direct result of this incident on the
stuff that you recovered out there?
SC: No. Of course, I could have been held in the dark about it~ but as far as I know, no.
RW: O.K. I went through and pulled out wherever, in this book UFO Crash at Roswell by
Randle and Schmitt, this is a 1991 .. .I pulled out wherever you were identified. They never
identified you by name except in the credits when they interviewed yo~ but they always referred
to you as the "Senior CIC man" and "Senior CIC agent". They identified Rickett and Marcel, of
course, by name. There are many things that are in the book that people said that you said or
implied that you said, without directly saying that "Colonel Cavitt told me such and such."
SC: Yeah.
RW: I pulled a couple of these out and just ask you if you can comment on it to see how they
ring with your memory of the incident. "The second fellow we interviewed" (this right fi"om the
fi'ont on page six) "was an agent in the counterintelligence corps. He accompanied another
intelligence officer on the initial trip to the crash site and we believe wrote a report of the incident
for his superiors in Washington" ... implying that was you, since you were the senior guy.
SC: rmjust reading this end quote "book." No, No. I assume .. .! assume when I read this thing
for the first time that they sent me a big deal, you know...
RW: An autographed copy?
SC: An autographed copy and all that. No, I didn't say all like that.
RW: On the next page, on seven, again referring to you: "At first this intelligence agent refused
to admit that the event had occurred at all. There bad been no newspaper story, no fuss, not even
the recovery of a weather balloon. After much prodding, that he was going to admit that
something came down and was recovered, and but that was as far as he would go. He admits no

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