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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. 225 …Well, Boford was Navy, that was the Navy .•• Q: Like taking a Pi Ball reading now…
  • p. 226 …fabricate balloons for us. During that period we heard of the Navy project that was going…
  • p. 242 …But were any of those used as precursors to Mogul or ••. A: None whatsoever. That was…
  • p. 319 …Ewing had conducted considerable research for the Navy during World War II, studying, among other things…
  • p. 789 …for six hours using a non-extensible envelope vri th the addition of a balla.st…
  • p. 801 …Vet Gifford ;.;ho has 0 0' sea rescue boat this project is planning to use. Stayed…
  • p. 802 …tlyckoff, Hungerfield, 'faux and ~yself regarding Navy participation with us in Crossroads. Captain Kellogg of Weather…
  • p. 815 …Schneider up with 0 'Day to check use as NYU station. Alamoggrdo crew helped~.get helium…
(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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