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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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(a) Then: (9) or for small temperature differences: (10) : - _L (.AI.)1-B T the nega,tive sign indicating a loss of lift. From this equation we may approximate the amount of ballast re- quired to compensate for the loss of superheat of the lifting .gas. It is apparent, then, that the amount of superheat gained or lost by a balloon 1 s ga• is of extreme importance to the control of the ,,_ight. For this reason a transparent film has a definite advantage over a reflecting fabric. For example, alumin~coated fabric balloons floating at 40,000 feet have exhibited lifting gas superheat in the neighborhood of 40°C.* Polyethylene balloons, on the other hand, Show superheat of approximately lOOC under the same conditions. Assuming a total weight of 30 kilograms in the balloon system, with helium as the lifting gas ~ B ~ t ), the following compensation at sunset, or when superheat is lost, will be necessary: Aluminized fabric: Polyethylene' AI:. -L - -- 4.7 OJo *This will explein the repid descent of flight with fabric balloons and will show the need for high ·rates of ballast flow at sunset with poly- ethylene balloon flig,hts (see Part III., "Summary of Flights," of this report). -37-
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