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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.
Comparing rete of leakage at 40,000 feet with leakage at
sea level:
~ 188 .u§. - 0 243
112 . 1013. 2 I 8 - .
Comparing rate of leakage at 100,000 feet with leakage at sea
level:
Ltoo
4 : 27
1880
10.9
1013
288
218 = 0.044
Therefore, if leakage of a full balloon at sea level is ~own,
it is possible to compute theoretical leakage at any altitude.
However, if it is not possible to completely inflate e balloon
on the ground in order to make a sea level test (if lift would
be great enough to rupture balloon or load lines), a method of
compe.ring full balloon leakage with partially full ball con
leakage must be found.
Let us assume that it is possible to obtain results of a
leakage test for a balloon inflated to a volt~e i of fullbal-
loon volume. Again starting with equation {1):
We see that in thi• cace the total area of openings, A is not
constant but i-s a function of volume. Therefore, we have:
(8) Q oc A.fh
We have shown that:
h : ilp 144 :
dg.
(~) .
/ll: d! air (1- Bl . 144
dg
Since we are comparing partially inflated balloon leakege at
sea level with full balloon leakage at sea level the variable
in the above expression is fl~ • This is graphically illus-
trated in Figure 24. FOIA release, from the osd collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 993 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.