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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.
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HEADQUARTERS FITZWILLIAM FORWARD c/o Commander, Task Group 7.2 APO 187, c/o Postmaster San Francisco, Calif. SONIC BALLOON TEST I KVlAJALEIN Inclosure G to FITZWILLIAM FORWARD RepOrt 17 ll.ay 1948 The Watson laboratories of Air Materiel Command arranged for ~ne ( 1) of its sonic balloon teams to participate in the FITZ1iilLIAM proje¢t as a mobile team to operate in the Central Pacific, at ~AJA~IN, GUAM Qnd HICKMI. FIElD, HAWAII, in that order, changing location for each of the thlree (.3) explosions. The purpose of this exploratory test was as follows: first, to deter- mine if an atomic explosion's compressional waves are generated in the sound channel existing between 50,000 and 701000 feet (such waves would qonce~vably travel unirrpeded for long distances in this channel without touching the earth's surface); second, to determine whether a sound pick-up uni~ suspended from a floating balloon could detect compressional waves (possibly undetected by similar sound units at the earth's surface) by virt~e of the de¢reased background noise in the high-level sound channel. Balloons we~e m3de of high·grade plastic, were of tear-drop a~pe, and were twenty-five (25) feet at their ls.rgest sea-level diameter. The sonic unit was a combination microphone-transmitter which was suspended ~rom the balloon and picked up sound waves, transmitting them to a ground directional antenna connected to a radiosonde receiver (standard SCR 658 air weather radio recelver). The transmitted sound impulses were recorded on pro (2) Esterline-Angus recorders. ;. dribble constructed of a five (5) gallon tin incorporating e 11etered jet to allow a predetermined spillage rate of high grade kerosenerethylene- glycol mixture was attached to the balloon. This was designed to pounteract the helium gas seepage thru the surface -ores of the plastic ballopn. This metered loss of ballast and controlled the rising rate of the balloon at 500 to 600 feet a minute. Grcu.OO sonic equiJ:nent consisted ot World v:ar II sound ranging devices utilized to pick up sound waves from an explosion traveling along the earth's curface. A radio receiver was used to obtain e:~tplosion time notificati1on code signals from the ENIWETOK radio station. The balloon launching site had to have a down-~ind clearance of about 1000 feet to lay out tho JOO feet risers and cables to which 19ere 1 attachod the microphone-transmitter and dribbler units. Also the site had to be sheltered from the wind to prevent da~~ge to the balloon while it was being -1-
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