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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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made on this project. A complete report of these flights and the egnipment used is included in "Technical Report 121.01 11 ( b J b~r this Research Division. 2. High Neutron Intensity Study (Contract AF 28(099)-10) In conjunction with a study to determine the altitude of maximum !leutron density a modi.fication was made on the Consta.,t AJ.ti t11de balloon system developed under this contract. In order to study ne,_ttron densities at two different altitudes with the same set of instruments, it was desirable to carry these instruments thro•1gh a "stepped flight". The balloon system in this case was to asc?nd to a selected altitude (say 45,000 ft.) float there for one-hour and then ascend to a higher altitude (for example 65,000 ft.) to float for another hour before descending. The advantages of this type .t'light for Cosmic Ray st·~dies are that a given altitude may be s-anpled for a long enough period of time to obtain statistically valid results, and such statistical sampling can be made at several levels wi tho11t the necessity of releasing . another balloon system and other set of neutron sensing instruments. By proper design of equi~ment a fairly wide range of altitudes can be sampled with "altitude steps" of almost any desired size. The step effect is attained by release of a fairly large amount of ballast at a fast rate set off by a pre-set clock timer or a radio rele~se activated by a transmitter on the ground. The amount of ballast to be released is determined from the standard altitude- vol•,me load relationships used for constant-level balloon flight. As a part of the final ballast release, the ballast tank and its controls may be dropped from the system. If the level positions of the flight must be controlled to fine limits, or if they must be of long duration (more than two hours) it.is necessary to employ constant- level ballast control over these portions of the flight. However, if the level portions of the flight are to be in the neighborhood of 1 ho~1r duration, ballast control during the~e floating period~ can be elimin~ted, making use of the inherent st~bility of the pl::l.stic balloon systems for short range constant level flights. It is this latter method which was used by the New York University gro,p in the study of Neutron Naxima. 22.
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