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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…
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prevents rupture.
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On the Winzen balloons, which are made from .015" polyethylene,
all but two of' the balloons were made with similar tiber tape re-
inforcementsJ these two were produced without tapes and both of
them have been flown with no evidences of unsatisfactory perfor-
mance.
The eggplant shaped balloon produced by The Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Company, Inc. has been flown with satisfaction, but the exact
amount of diffusion, which is expected to be low from this balloon,
h not yet known.
C. Internal-Pressure Balloons
From a theoretical standpoint the most satisfactory means of' keeping
a balloon at constant pressure-altitude is to use a nan-extensibl•
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