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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. 444 …Colorado, western Nebraska and western Kansas by the Industrial Research Institute of the University of Denver…
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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