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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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The pen drops off the shelf at a safe distance below the ex- pected pressure altitude and ballast then flows until the preuure pen reaches the insulating section of the commutator. In order to prevent the-overshoot mentioned as one undesirable feature of the automatic ballast system, the high pressure end of the insulator may correspond to the expected maximum altitude of the balloon, any loss of lift due to impurities or escape of lifting gas will cause the balloon to level off at a ceiling within the ballast-dropping range. Continued ballast dropping will result in the rise of the balloon. Thus, an over- estimation of the ceiling is not as critical as in the case of the previous system. (3) Rate-of-Ascent Switch Wit·h the displacement-switch control just described there re- main the problems of ballast waste and balloon oscillation re- sulting from discharge of ballast during rises of the balloon after a descent has been checked. To eliminate this, a ballast- control .witch acting on the rate of rise of the balloon is put in series with the displacement ~itch to close the ballast flow circuit only when the balloon is coming down or floating below pressure altitude. When it is rising, no ballast flow is permitted. This "rate-switch" is seen in Figure 12. Wax /Capillary / Tube Volume Chamber Figure 12. Rate-of-ascent nitch. -21-
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