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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…
they're doing anything different than any of these other people ... they just happen to have the most
current stuff on the street.
SC: Trying to write a book.
RW: "Rickett, the Provost Marshal" ... excuse me ... page 61. "According to Lewis Rickett, one of
the CIC Agents, he, with the commander of the CIC shop, drove a staff car from the motor pool
and returned to the crash site. They were followed by a second car carrying several MP's. An
MP did ask for identification because neither of the counterintelligence men were in uniform." So
this would have been the second trip, which you said you did not take. But, he did apparently go
with you on the first trip?
SC: Rickett?
RW: Rickett ... Yeah.
SC: Yeah.
RW: And I assume at that time, just like in OSI, you did not wear uniforms for the most part?
SC: I didn't even have any unifonns.
RW: Yeah. I know the feeling. For the first eight years in OSI, I think, the only uniform I had
was my mess dress. "But Rickett, the Provost Marshal and the senior intelligence officer walked
into the debris field, examined the wreckase. Rickett said it looked Hke metal and asked if it was
radioactive" ... and you said it wasn't. That was page 62. This is on the, you would have been on
this now second trip again, O.K.1 On page 63: u they prepared to leave the crash site the CIC
agent told Rickett: "You and I were never out here. You and I never saw this. You don't see
any military people or military vehicles out here. Rickett agreed saying yeah, we never even left
the office." Now that's the little quote they have out also in the..
SC: Now what page is that on?
RW: That's on page 63.
SC: 63? No. Now I could have said something facetious like that after we got back to the
office, after I was convinced that it was a weather balloon, or some such contraption. I didn't
know, naturally. I could have said after we got back to the office: "Rick~ this has been a big
boondoggle. I don't even want 700 CIC Headquarters to know we wasted our time on it. Forget
we ever did it." I mean I could have...
RW: O.K.

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