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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…
apparently, where you were at and picked up this material, and then there is another one 120 miles
or so away.
SC: A richochet.
R W: Yeah. Which at one time was on the Plains of San Augustin and now it has apparently in
this new book been changed to a location closer to Roswell. And. that's where these bodies were
supposedly recovered. I think their new research has to do with that aspect of it.
MC: Well we haven't seen it, but I know it came out in April.
RW: O.K. Lets see; also on the same page it said: "The CIC responded to the phone call. Jesse
Marcel was one. "The intelligence and the CIC responded to the phone call. Jesse Marcel was
one of them. Colonel Wdliam Blanchard and the other officer suggested that Marcel and CIC
agent accompanied Brazel to the ranch to see what was there." Braze~ of course, was the farmer
who apparently came in and made the original report.
SC: Yeah. To the best of my recollection, I never met the rancher, Brazel.
RW: O.K., because as I go through here you11 see that you're accused, I say "accused"; claimed,
to have been with him on a number of occasions and basically, it was alleged that the Army Air
Corps had imprisoned him, if you wit~ for about a week and kept him away from everybody. Not
that you personally did, but the Army Air Corps in general: "The trip to the ranch took the rest of
the afternoon ... they were forced to stay in a small cabin with no electricity no running water ... the
next morning they headed out into a field were Brazel had found the debris." So, this would have
been you and whoever else accompanied you.
SC: Totally, made up, or fabricated, or whatever. I didn't have any experiences like that of
spending the night out on the ranch.
MC: Eating a can of beans...
RW: Eating beans... yeah, that is, in fact, mentioned in one of the...
SC: Yeah.
RW: O.K. Now this: "Marcel would later say that the material was like nothing he had ever seen
and the metal was as thin as newsprint and as light as a feather. It was flexible but very strong.
He tried to dent it with a sledge hammer but Marcel and the CIC agent tried to bum it but it
would not bum. It was lighter, stronger and more fire resistant than any of them bad ever seen.
Marcel, along with the counterintelligence agent picked up as much as they could and begun
loading it up in Marcel's convertible and the counterintelligence agent's Jeep CarryaD vehicle with
a rear box." So, apparently, according to Marcel's version of the story (and I don't know when
this was given, sometime after 1978) you hammered on it and tried to rip it and did other stuff
with it and it was tike nothing you bad ever seen.

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