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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. 29 …Since 1978-1980, other UFO researchers, most notably Donald Schmitt and Kevin Randle, claim to have…
  • p. 31 …Randle and Donald Schmitt; The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell (1994), also by Randle…
  • p. 159 …I have reviewed the pictures in the 1991 Book by Randle and Schmitt on the UFO…
  • p. 168 …It had been alleged in a number ofbooks, including the one by Randle and Schmitt, that…
  • p. 170 …I went through and pulled out wherever, in this book UFO Crash at Roswell by Randle…
  • p. 171 …From the very start, when these clowns started hounding me, Randle and Schmitt, I told they…
  • p. 176 …He makes a number of claims that, at least Randle and Schmitt; and when I say…
  • p. 178 …risk injury to civiliaDs on the ground. Randle asked if he remembered my talk at aD…
  • p. 190 …Well, of course, Randle and Schmitt do claim that those people are out there and that…
  • p. 191 …Well, I got a perfect example of this with Randle and Schmitt. Randle is the outgoing…
  • p. 205 …On review of the photos in the Randle/Schmitt book, the material looks like one of…
Fig. 7
AM-2 Transmitter
12.
In addition to radio direction finding with the scR658 and beacon
tranemiseion with radio compass, s~eral other methods of balloon
positioning were evaluated. Radar positioning was successful
only if a target was attached to the balloon train. Generally,
the ranges possible with radar are not as great as those possible
by radio direction findiqg. For direction finding on the low
frequency AM transmitter some value was found 1n use or loop
antennae. Accuracy of this method is between .S and. 2 degrees
~ is generally hindered by sky wave reflection.
A pulse time modulated transponder beacon at high frequencies
was found to be advantageous for obtaining accurate ·slant range
to the balloon. Preliminary investigation of use of Doppler
effect for positioning indicated that this method is not feasible
due to difficulty 1n measuring the low fre~1ency differences
invol"'ed.

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