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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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F. Flight Termination Gear The rate of descent when controlled balloons are falling after exhausting all ballast is sometimes as slow as 50 feet per minute. This means that several hours might be required to fall through the lanes of aircraft traffic, increasing considerably the hazard to aircra.ft (admittedly very small). To minimize this possibility, units have been added to the flight train to cause a rapid descent after the balloon system has descended to some critical value, say 20,000 feet. One such destruction system, using a flight-termination switch, is shown in Figure 21. It consists of a pressure-activated switch, triggered on descent only, an explosive charge used to sever KNOT&. Aaovs A ioa D Snow CAN >lOotS 34' RP UIIE__... OF 100* TEST BRAIDEO NYLON WaTH 2' SLACK O&TAIL OF R•P L.I'NS .... , .. 'T iMTb BAI.LOON ~ ~ ld.ueLINECcouD •) 10 1lUE. PI.AGE fW IfT .......ItCH IN BEEN CUT ( IIOIJIIO Willi TIKAD) "'-fi..aaHT"iRMMeAroaS..lttiRR BALLOON ON FINAL DESCENT 10 2(\000 tT1 1Ml15I4EiltJC.IM(:, I'Ulo\TlM& liME .. ntEAIR LANES, lME HALF DI::F\.,t,l~D ~LCCllt lltD ACTS A5 1rs CJWN PAR~C ...ITE Figure 21.. Flight termination equipment. the main load line, a rip line attached to ·the balloon near the equator anQ. a snub line which takes up the strain after the load has fallen a few feet. -29-
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