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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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  • p. 9 …Appendices to the McAndrew Synopsis are identified by gray tabs which apear at the top right…
  • p. 28 …The rubber was smoky gray in color and scattered over an area about 200 yards in…
  • p. 38 …a thick, foil like metallic gray substance; a brittle, brownish-black plastic- like material, like Bakelite…
  • p. 43 …the ruptured and shredded neoprene would "almost look like dark gray or black flakes or ashes…
  • p. 205 …Some of the material would ahnost look like dark gray or black flakes or ashes after…
  • p. 222 …He talks about the smoky gray rubber ••. Q: Which these samples here, as you say, if…
  • p. 241 …There's a gray area here. I was certainly aware that what we were doing in…
  • p. 379 …that he might have found a smoky gray in color and scattered vatlon balloons on the…
With light weight payloads, balloon system of' this type can be
la1.mched by two or three experienced balloon men. The launching
is carried out in a manner similar to th~t explained in Section II,
Operations, of' "Technical Report 93.02(lJ~ in that the balloon
is inflated in the lee side o£ a building or wind screen, (or in
an aircraft hangar if one is available, or in the open when winds
are light) with the equipment train laid out downwind of' the balloon.
The amount of gas lift is equal to balloon weight plus approximately
10% to cause ascent at 800 to lOOOft. min. A picture of inflation
of a 20 ft. diameter plastic balloon is shown as Fig. U.
Fig. 11
Inflation of a 20 ft. Plastic Balloon

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