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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. 26 …Air Force Historical Research Agency (AFHRA), Maxwell Air Force Base (AFB), AL, the Air Force Safety…
  • p. 31 …What Air Force researchers did do, however, was to search for records still under Air Force…
  • p. 51 …Much of the speculation stems from claims by William Haut, a former Air Force public af…
  • p. 75 …who called the Roswell Ar- my Air Field. The base Intelligence Officer, Jesse A. Marcel. and…
  • p. 164 …That actually came, I think, in September when the Air Force first stated. You were one…
  • p. 326 …Eighth Air Force. General Ramey personally inspected the "disc," became skeptical, and summoned the base 36…
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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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