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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…
stmple orifices of various sizes replaced the manual ballast
"YS.lve.
Figure 9. ~anual ballast valve.
(2) Displacement Switch
The displacement principle in ballast control has been used in
two different types of valves. The first of these. called the
"automatic ballast valve." used a needle valve.controlling
ballast flow by an aneroid capsule to which the needle was at-
tached (Figure 10). The aneroid capsule was open to the at-
mosphere on ascent; as the balloon began to descend to a region
ot higher pressure. a minimum pressure switch was used to seal
off the capsule and further descent caused ballast flow. (For
details aee Technical Report No. 1. Constant Level Balloon
Project. Research Division. Colle~e of Engineering, New York
University, New York. N.Y •• 1948.)
There are three undesirable features of this system. Greatest
is the effect of temperature changes on the air sealed in the
capsule. Seal-off pressure acts as a datum plane. Any in-
crease from this pressure causes compression of the aneroid,
and ballast flows proportionally to the difference from seal-
off pres~ure. However. with changes of temperature of the
entrapped air. the activation pressure of the valve changes,
the floating level is thus also a function of temperature of
the gas in the aneroid.
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