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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: Yeah.
RW: Yeah. We were still dealing with copper wire. You can bend light with fiber optics, and
that's where we got...we (the world) got fiber optics from that material which we reverse
engineered. That's the implication.
SC: O.K ... I didn't see any of that, but there could have been some wire or nylon or something.
RW. 0 .K. "Together Marcel and the Counterintelligence agent walked around the entire
perimeter looking at clues. It took them most of the morning to do it because of the size of the
field they started collecting material at the outer edge of the field and moved in toward the
center." So, this implies that this was a pretty major undertaking that you and Marcel - in order
to examine all of this stuff took a long time because of the volume of the material. This is what I
imply from that.
SC: If it were true, you know, the size of the rancher's field they are sometimes a section that are
miles square, maybe larger. No.
RW: But there wasn't material all over?
SC: No.
RW: You are right. You could walk into New Mexico forever with...
SC: Oh Lord! Ranches are big out and down in New Mexico. No, .. .I didn't spend any extended
time down there at the site.
RW: O.K. Then, on page SS, it talks about there was discussion that this may have been a foil
parachute from a V-2. Were you aware that they were testing, we were testing, V-2's at that time
out ofWbite Sands?
SC: Oh yeah. I went down to a couple of launches. One abort and one launch.
RW: O.K. But there was no doubt in your mind that this was not part ofV-2 or any other type
of rocket when you saw the debris in the field?
SC: No. No. I never had any idea that it was anything with the V-2. They told us down at the
V-2 site that they weren't shooting them toward Roswell, anyway. Of course the sent up a few of
them and they had an awful lot of aborts. They bad to detonate them or pull the trigger... shortly
after they got off the launch pad because they went awry, shall we say.
RW: Yeah. Apparently one went awry and went into Mexico, too. They already found that
later.

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