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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…
balloon at any point ~ may be expressed as:
(4) =2( Dlu- t.e•]v.
Therefore.,. maximum allowable balloon pressure at any plane i-1
will be:
(5)
Equation (5) me.y be plotted in terms of bursting ·pressure and lle
for any given diameter balloon. A straight line through the
origin and tangent to the plot of Equation (5) will indicate
the maximum allowable(dptde)Git (1-8) for any given diameter bal-
loath Comparl.ng the me.ximmn allowable (dp/de)0 1( with a chart
of altitude vs. pressure in the atmosphere will indicate the
minimum altitude at which the balloon can be allowed to be full.
From an altitude-buoyancy table for any given diameter balloon,
the maximum allowable buoyancy. or maximum allO?rable gas in-
flation ean be obtained.
Figure 26 is a plot of equations (3) and (5) for .001 11 poly-
ethylene (sf= 900 psi ) balloons of 20'' 30' and 70'
diameters. 2
Fig. 25.
Relationship a)bz, for balloon.
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Fig. 26.
• .25&• lo-• Pliltt.
A,- pel
Graph of equations (3) and (5).

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