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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. 1 THE ROSWELL REPORT Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert Headquarters United States Air Force…
  • p. 7 Clinical Investigations and Life Sciences Division, Headquarters Air Force Medical Operating Agency, Bolling AFB, DC; John…
  • p. 28 …the disc had been "flown to higher headquarters." That same story also reported that a Roswell…
  • p. 30 …These locations include Fort Worth, Texas, the home of the Eighth Air Force Headquarters; possibly Sandia…
  • p. 71 DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE MEMORANDUM FOR FROM: AFiiN SUBJECT: References…
  • p. 75 …DuBose says officials at the Headquarters of the Eighth Air Force were directed to tell the…
  • p. 81 DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WASHINGTON DC MEMORANDUM FOR SAF/AAZ…
  • p. 89 DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE 09 Mar94 MEMORANDUMFORSAF/AAZ ATIENTION: Lt…
  • p. 107 …Colonel Loberg, Headquarters, Eighth Air Force, arrived this date to coordinate with S-3 and check…
  • p. 108 …Boatright, Headquarters, Eighth Air Force, arrived to coordinate with Statistical Control on cost analysis. 16 July…
  • p. 133 HEADQUARTERS, ARMY AIR FORCES WASHINGTON SUBJECT: Iuuance o! Ordera !01 Couaa8.1ng General .A.1r Materiel…
  • p. 144 …we haven't s~uadron or grou~ headquarters should take their people away. 1:55 P…
  • p. 159 …I did not make a report of this incident to my headquarters since I felt that…
  • p. 165 …700 CIC was the CIC Headquarters.
  • p. 166 …700 CIC was the Headquarters? SC: Yes, I don't think I even made a report…
  • p. 167 …I think this was taken at the Headquarters at Carswell. RW: Yeah, that's right. That…
  • p. 168 …I took it to 8th Air Force Headquarters, General Ramey was excited; they were going to…
  • p. 177 …I don't even want 700 CIC Headquarters to know we wasted our time on it…
  • p. 178 …So that, to me, implies that this would have been your CIC Headquarters also sent some…
  • p. 227 …I was assigned, believe it or not, to Headquarters, Air Force .•• I still have the Headquarters…
  • p. 265 …on the basis of orders out of Headquarters Army Air Force. Q: While you were operating…
  • p. 266 …These are the pictures taken in General Ramey's office, 8th Air Force Headquarters by a…
  • p. 282 …Then after I left the headquarters of ARDC in Baltimore, I spent four years at the…
  • p. 318 …debris be flown to Eighth Air Force Headquarters at Fort Worth AAF, TX, for his personal…
  • p. 327 …Andrews AAF was headquarters of the Army Air Forces Weather Service. It is also interesting to…
  • p. 407 HEADQUARTERS FITZWILLIAM FORWARD c/o Commander, Task Group 7.2 APO 187, c/o Postmaster San…
  • p. 409 …arrival of the explo- sion sound wave. Headquarters FITZ\nlliArA FCRI1ARD furnished ARPACAS 3-1 and…
  • p. 964 …Morgan, from Headquarters Eighth Air Force, ;'las here to confer with the Engineering Officer, Captain ?cterson…
  • p. 984 …Marcellus Duffy eliminated it and several others from the project when Headquarters U.S. Army Air…
(2) Solution, Migration and Evaporation through Film
A very sli~t amount of lift is lost through solution of the
gas into the balloon film. migration through the film and evapora-
tion into the atmosphere. The rate of this type of diffusion
is a function of the characteristics of the lifting gas and
the partial pressure involved. Since the lifting gas is
assumed to be very nearly pure. the partial pressure is merely
the pressure of the atmosphere in which the balloon is floating.
This method of diffusion need not be considered when ex-
amining the loss of a balloon's lifting gas since it is of a
low enough value to be insignificant as compared with the loss
of gas by leakage through openings in the film.
Tests have indicated that this type of diffusion through .001"
polyethylene has a value of approximately 4 liters/meter2/day.
At sea level this is equivalent to 5.32 ~r. for a 20-foot
diameter balloon. At 40.000 feet MSL the value would be
approximately 1 ~r.
(3) Diffusion through Appendix
We have seen that there is no pressure difference across the
open appendix of the balloon during floating. Therefore. the
loss of lifting gas through this appendix (except when the
balloon is rising and gas is being valved out of the appendix)
oan be only by true intermolecular diffusion of the gas into
the atmosphere and air into the liftin~ gas. The expression
for loss of lifting gas by diffusion is similar in form to the
expression for transfer of heat through a given distance by
conduction:
(13)
where:
~= -odNdydx
dt dz ·
dN
dt = time rate of transfer of molecules of gas
across the area dy dx in direction a
0 : a coefficient of diffusion. dependent upon
viscosity and dersity of the gas involved (0. ci)
dN • variation of molecular concentration v:ith
dz • variation in direction!
dydx = the differential term for area_
Then. since a molecule of lifting gas has a given weight, we may
state that:
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