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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…
RW: I'll tell you what, if you can indulge me for a few minutes and let me set up my computer.
Do you mind signing a statement. 111 make it very short. (unintelligible).
SC: Sure. You bet. Yeah.
RW: And we'll just make a kind of quick summary statement if you can bare with my computer
skills here.
SC: I11 prick my finger and sign it in blood.
RW: I don't think we'll require that.
MC: Rich, it always seems funny to us with all these, if these things happened. How can 30 or
even 3 people keep something a secret?
RW: Well, I would kind of like to know how they did it, because in my real job we handle all the
Special Programs that do keep all the secrets. And we would like to figure out how they do it so
we can duplicate it. Because it is very hard to keep secrets, as you well know.
MC: But you see, I am talking about civilians and other people who were in on these bodies
going to the morgue and all that. (unintelligible) some grave digger from the funeral home or
whatever ...
RW: Well, of course, Randle and Schmitt do claim that those people are out there and that they
have interviewed them. They list a whole bunch of them. Now, we're not trying to go after them
and undo every interview they had done. That is not our point. In fact, you are the only person
we have gone out and interviewed, because you're always reputed to be the guy... one of the two
or three people that was there picking up the stuff. ..
MC: And he is the only one that is still living.
RW: That is right.
MC: That is what Doyle Rees said on his post card. He said you better keep this going. If
anybody likes publicity as he ... (unintelligible)
SC: But what be was saying, all of these guards...
RW: He claims that he had interviewed a number of these people and said that they did guard
something and there were a number ftights. Now, we have never found the ftight records to
substantiate that, so I don't know where they have. Ifthey have.
SC: The crew chiefs on the airplane that are making these ftights. They went with them. Flight
Engineers?

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FOIA release, from the osd collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 993 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.