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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.
“Headquarters”29 pages
- 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…
the pressure distribution of the liftinc gas and the internal
back pressure due to valving gas. To find maximum rates of
ascent for various balloons would necessitate a complicated
series of trial and error solution. In general, it has been
more practical to determine a maximum rate of rise for nor.mal
operating conditions for any given size balloon by findin~ the
maximum allowable rate for the balloon rising to its lowest
normal operating level (i.e., we will find the maximum all0?18ble
rate for the worst normal operating conditions and consider
it a maximum for all normal operating conditions.)
Let us take the case of a 20-foot diameter polyethylene balloon
of .001~ thickness. Lowest normal floating altitude is 20,000 ft.
MSL. Let us assume that the balloon will be full and begin
valvinf gas at 15,000 ft. MSL. Assume the appendix diameter
to be 2 foot. Using equation (1) to find maximum allowable
internal pressure and assuming the critical x-y plane to be that
of maximum diameter A~ = D/2 , we have:
A Pall. = 4 SJt = 4(900/2)· .001 = . 007 5 psi
t2· 20
(Here we have introduced a factor of safety by saying Sf =900/2
instead of 900 psi, the ultimate strength in tension of poly-
ethylene.) Pressure distribution:
A.p 012 = A~ :l (I-B) = l-2°·3.38 ·10-4 • .862 = .00291 psi
Allowable back pressure:
A Pbp =Ap 011 - AP012 = .0046 psi
Maximum rate of rise using equation (13)J
( 2780° C A \ fttsecv d a}
= 100.7 ft/sec
= 6000 ft /min
It is evident from this calculation that the rate of rise of the
20-ft. diameter polyethylene balloon is not a critical factor
in bursting unless the open appendix becomes snarled an~ gas is
not allowed to escape.
Rate of rise and appendix openings are important from the stand-
point of balloon design. For operationel reasons it is important
to have a rapid rate of rise. In order to make most efficient
use .of weight, the balloon film should be thin. As mentioned
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