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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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  • p. 9 …Appendices to the McAndrew Synopsis are identified by gray tabs which apear at the top right…
  • p. 28 …The rubber was smoky gray in color and scattered over an area about 200 yards in…
  • p. 38 …a thick, foil like metallic gray substance; a brittle, brownish-black plastic- like material, like Bakelite…
  • p. 43 …the ruptured and shredded neoprene would "almost look like dark gray or black flakes or ashes…
  • p. 205 …Some of the material would ahnost look like dark gray or black flakes or ashes after…
  • p. 222 …He talks about the smoky gray rubber ••. Q: Which these samples here, as you say, if…
  • p. 241 …There's a gray area here. I was certainly aware that what we were doing in…
  • p. 379 …that he might have found a smoky gray in color and scattered vatlon balloons on the…
(2) Density:
(3) Let:.
d : ..!..
RT
p, R, T: pressure, specific gas constant, and
temperature of the air or lifting gas
At any two positions:
L 1 = v. (d0 1 - dg. )
L2 • V (d02 - dg2 )
Investigating the gain of superheat, since there is no change of
volume V1 =V2 and:
Assume now that the balloon carries no internal pressure and that
the difference in lift does not cause the balloon system to pass
through any appreciable atmospheric pressure difference (in the
case where the balloon is floating at 40,000 ft. MSL a change of
1000 ft~. would be only 9 mb, or a 5% change).
Therefore:
Assume also that initially the air and lifting gas are at the
same te~perature and that the air passes through no appreciable
temperature change. Then:
Ta, = Ta a= Tgs =li
Then, making use of our two assumptions and substituting equation
(2) into equation (4), we have:
and:
~L = Vp (..L- -'--- _L_ _ _J_)R0T1 R0 T; RgTgz R9T1
:
..L(.L-..L)Rg T. Te12
I ( I 1 )
~ fi;,- Rg
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