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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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and distribute the load. These tapes. which converge to the· load ring at the bottom, actually support the load (Figure 6) • .An open bottom penni ts the escape of' excess lifting gas and thus prevents rupture. BALLOON i APPENO:;--XI --··-. RING ~-....... Figure 6. Appendix detail, polyethylene balloon. 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• -14-
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