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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…
However:
(3) h .AIL )( 144
dg
where ~P is the pressure difference across the opening (psi)
and dQ is density of lifting gas (lb./ft.3). Combining equa-
tion ~2) and equation (3):
(4)
The pressure difference across any given opening can be eval-
uated i·n terms of: height above a knovm point of zero pressure
difference; rate of pressure change with altitude of the at-
mosphere (which, for l:n•y small section of altitude is assumed
to be constant); and re.J-.:io of the densities of air and the
lifting gas. Since the pressure difference across the appendix
opening is zero this is o\tr reference point for evaluating
height. Figure 23 shO'\'iS this pressure relationship in graphic
form.
l,
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AZ
_________ j_______ ~-----~
z. p
Figure ·23. Pressure difference across balloon.
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