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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: said in a facetious way: "Lets make out like it never existed, because we're wasting our
time." But I didn't say it in such a way that it would be this is so highly classified we won't have
anything to do with it.
RW: O.K. On page 86, it said: "The counterintelligence people came into Roswell on a special
flight from Andrews Army Air Field on July 8. ". So that, to me, implies that this would have been
your CIC Headquarters also sent some other people out there.
SC: Yeah. Right. That's what it sounds like.
RW: Yeah, but you said you would have known if anybody from Washington had come into your
area. sort to speak. More than likely.
SC: Well I certainly hope so. We were secretive and so forth, but I think they would have
touched base with me, since obviously if they talked to Marcel he would have probably said
something to begin with, but they would have wanted to know what I knew. No, 1. ..
MC: Of course Jack Williams was there. Jack could have been on some ofthese...
SC: No Jack was young and sort of scatterbrained, as you well know. And I never relied much
on him for anything. He's the type that would read a book while he was on a road trip driving his
car. He'd finish a book while driving...
RW: While he was actually driving?
SC: Oh sure.
RW: Sounds like the people driving on 95 in Washington there in the traffic jam.
MC: There weren't many people on the road.
SC: Jack rabbits. No. No disrespect to Jack, but he just wasn't a solid citizen as far as rm
concerned. And if anybody from headquarters CIC came in rm positive they would have checked
in with me.
RW: O.K. The page that's kind of devoted to you, if you will, is on 171 and it said that "Schmitt
suggested the possibility that the crash had been a V-2 or A-9, (which is one of derivatives of the
V-2, that we were playing with at that time). Schmitt asked if there had ever...ifthey bad ever
retrieved anything like that anywhere in New Mexico. Never, he said any rocket going off course
would be destroyed by the rauge officer and they wouldn't have wanted to risk injury to civiliaDs
on the ground. Randle asked if he remembered my talk at aD about a flying saucer. He (meaning
you) insisted that nothing at all happened. The former CIC man hadn't heard any rumors about a
crash. All this, including the story shown on "Unsolved Mysteries", was a bunch of garbage.
Schmitt and Randall spent two hours with the man, he told them that any reports he wrote in the

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