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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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(d) Fix~d Rate Ballast Equipment:(optional) 1 ea. orifice spinnerette, to give proper ballast flow 1 gallon ballast, compass fluid AN-C-116 17. 1 ea. ballast reservoir (1 gallon capacity) 1 ea. filter 3' diameter, 325 x 325, phosphor bronze mesh 6 inches tubing (Tygon) 3/16" bore Tracking of these flights was maintained by use of an SCR 658 radio receiver with a 400mc transmitter telemetering information from the balloon syst~m. Information received through the telemetering circuit can be recorded on a standard weathel" station recorder, a recording oscilloscope of the Brush Development type or by any other convenient means. Altitude of the service flights was determined by use of a modified radiosonde modulator, an olland cyql~ modul~tor (see p.68 , Section I, General, Technical Report 93.02(1J), or by computation from knowled ~e of t~ weight of the balloon system and volume. of · the balloon. In order to keep balloon systems from floating in the air lanes, a flight termin ·~. tion switch was incbH:led in the circuit. This switch is a radiosonde modul~tor modified so that all contacts above 25,000 ft. are disconn~cted from the circuit. The pen arm rides on a shelf dnring ascent to about 30,000 ft. and t.hqn f .uls to the commutator (See Fig. 12). Fig. 12 Flight Termination Switch
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