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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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I. IN TRODUC TI ON A. Contract Requirements On November 1, 1946 the Research Division of the College of Engineering of New York University entered into Contract W28-099-ac-241 with Watson Laboratories of the Air Materiel Command. Under this contract the University was commissioned to design, develop and fly constant-level balloons to carry instruments to altitudes from 10 to 20 kilometers, adjustable at 2-kilameter intervals. The following performance. was specified: 1. Altitude to be maintained within 500 meters. 2. Duration of constant level flight to be initially 6 to 8 hours minimum, eventually 48 hours. 3. The accuracy of pressure observation to be comparable to that obtainable with the standard Army radiosonde (t3-5 mb). In addition to this balloon performance it was desired that: 4. A balloon-borne transmitter be developed for telemetering of information from the balloon to suitable ground re- ceivers. 5. Positioning of balloon during flight be determined by ground tracking such as radar or radio direction-finding or theodolite. · 6. Appropriate meteorological data be collected and inter- preted. Following the first year of work the contract was renewed for a 1-year period, and in addition to the provisions of the original contract it was agreed that a total of 100 test flirftts would be launched by the Universi~. In September, 1948 a second renewal of the contract was ef±'ected. With this renewal, which expires in March, 1949, it is ex- pected that the development of equipment will be concluded. Further extensions are under consideration whereby New York Uni- versity will supply standardized flight gear and fli;ht ser- vice personnel for routine test flights. -5-
FOIA release, from the osd collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 993 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.