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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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(helium)
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thick polyethylene balloon filled with helium is 440 lb.
{2) Appendix-Opening Cona1derat1one
As an open-apperdix, constant-volume balloon ascends the
liftin~ gas 111ill expend due to the decrease in the pressure
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