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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.
“Fort Worth”32 pages
- p. 12 …Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July 9, 1947
17. Satement, Lt. Col. Sheridan…
- p. 13 …Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July 9, 1947
2. Organizational Chart, Watson Laboratories…
- p. 30 …These locations
include Fort Worth, Texas, the home of the Eighth Air Force Headquarters;
possibly Sandia…
- p. 34 …DC;
Federal Records Center, Ft Worth, TX; the INSCOM Archives, Fort Meade, MD;
National Air and…
- p. 38 …in the famous photos (Atch 16) in Fort Worth was that of a
radar target normally…
- p. 39 …were told was a flying saucer to Fort Worth. The people on
board included ... and Maj…
- p. 40 …Newton was a weather officer assigned to Fort Worth, who was on duty when
the Roswell…
- p. 45 …photographs taken at the time by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, that depicted
Ramey and Marcel…
- p. 46 …the wreckage prior to its getting to Fort Worth. This organization
reported on July 20, 1994…
- p. 51 …After the autopsies, conspiracy theorists said
the bodies were flown to Fort Worth and then
to…
- p. 75 …Some of the debris was flown to Fort Worth,
..as where the Commander of the Eighth…
- p. 101 …Center (WNRq or the Southwest Regional
Depository (Fort Worth, Texas).
Recommendations
Because the records management policy…
- p. 151 16
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Photographs of Balloon Debris
July 9, 1947
- p. 159 …taken to Eighth AU- Force
Headquarters in Fort Worth where it was subsequently identified as a…
- p. 167 …Marcel took it to Fort Worth. Yeah that's the ...
RW: ·Yeah. That doesn't look…
- p. 168 …into Wright-Pat
and Kirtland, or to Fort Worth. Back and forth, loaded up, with very…
- p. 174 …Then it said: "After Marcel had gone to Fort Worth and came back Marcel
challenged the…
- p. 176 …O.K."Marcel would take some ofthe sample to Fort Worth to show Ramey. In the…
- p. 179 normal course of his duty was sent to Washington not 8th Air Force in Fort Worth…
- p. 254 …But the Roswell morning paper
clearly showed that there was a knowledgeable person in Fort
Worth…
- p. 266 …Headquarters by a news photographer of the Fort
Worth Star Telegram. It's four pictures that…
- p. 309 …I was the only weather forecaster on duty in the Fort Worth base weather
and flight…
- p. 318 …flown to Eighth
Air Force Headquarters at Fort Worth AAF, TX, for his personal inspection. Upon…
- p. 326 …Before the announcement was made, the "disc" was flown to Fort Worth AAF,
at the direction…
- p. 327 …giant thermos jug" was allegedly transported
from Fort Worth AAF to Wright Field. 38 This description…
- p. 329 designs on it."41 Furthermore, the Fort Worth Army Airfield Weather Officer,
Irving Newton, who was…
- p. 333 Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Photographs of Balloon Debris
July 9, 1947
1
- p. 640 …Similarly, the Fort Worth Sub-Committee established a procedure
for flights made within the Fort V1orth…
- p. 707 …Air Coordinating Committee, Fort Worth Regional
Airspace Subcommittee.
Subject: Obstructions to ·air navigation ••••.•••••••••••••••••••••••••• 43
Memorandum from…
- p. 713 …Secretary a
SUBJECT
AIR COORDINATING COMMITTEE
FORT WORTH REGIONAL AIRSPACE SUBCOMMITTEE
P. O. BOX 1689
FORT…
- p. 715 …BOX 1689
FORT WORm 1_ mxAS
September 2, 1947
C1-tairman, Ft. Worth Regional Airspace Subcommittee…
- p. 812 …Arrived in
Fort Worth about 9 EDST. Off again to Big Springs, Texas, where forced to…
This effect adds to the stabilit.y of stratospheric balloon flights.
If a system in equilibrium in the stratosphere were to lose lift
and descend. the compression of the gas would cause an increase
of the lifting gas temperature relative to the air temperature.
causing a decrease in 'Imbalance.
Similarly. an initial 1.mbalance causing rise of the system would
cause relative cooling of the lifting gas and thus again decrease
the unbalance. Hence. the rate of rise or descent in the strato-
sphere will be limited by the rate of heat exchange due to con-
duction and radiation. which will counteract this effect of
adiabatic heating or cooling.
Empirical evidence indicates that there is a great deal more
stability in a stratospheric balloon system than in a similar
system floating in the troposphere. This "adiabatic stability" is
a principal reason for better performance of stratosphere tlighte.
E. Diffusion and Leakage of Lifting Gas
The lifting gas of a balloon can be lost by:
leakage through small holes in the fabric or film;
solution, migration and evaporation th~ugh fabric or film;
true molecular diffusion through openings. such as the
appendix opening.
(1) Leakage
Volumetric flow, Q, of a gas through any given opening in the
balloon surface may be evaluated as a function of the area of
the opening. A; the pressure head causing the flow, Is and a co-
efficient of leakage,Cd•
(1) where g is the acceleration
due to gravity
It would be difficult to evaluate the amount and area of holes
in the be.lloon surface. Let us, then, compare the rate of
leakage at any given altitude with leakage at sea level. rather
than attempting to evaluate the leakage at a given altitude.
Firs-t; we shall compare the rate of leakage of a full balloon
at any given altitude with leakage of a full balloon at sea
level. Let us assume that the area of any opening in the sur-
face of the balloon does not vary with altitude and that the
coefficient of leakage is constant. Thus:
(2)
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where h is pressure head in
feet of lifting gas
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