Documents / FOIA release
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
Introcluction In November, 1946 the Research Division of the College of Eng.1neer1ng of New York University contracted with Watson Laboratories, All::, to develop and fly constant-level instrument-carrying balloons. This is the third part of the final report on the work accomplished and describes the experimental balloon flights which were made. In reviewing the flights a number of analytical comments may be made. In most flights one objective was the maintenance of the balloon at a constant pressure level for as long as possible. On many fligh'b$ balloon behavior was affected by instrumental controls of one kind or another while on some flights no controls at all were used. Balloons of varying sizes and of different principles of construction have been laun~hed singly, in tandem and in clusters. On some, temperatures were measured and on others. the flight pe.th was an object of special study. To explain certain observed flight data a careful analysis of atmospheric stability has been made, while other flights have special signif'icance be- cause they demonstrate the effect of superheat on the lifting gas or some other feature of analytical importance. Since over 100 flights have been made, it is difficult to tabulate the important results obtained on each specific flight. To present the data Which has ~een collected each si~ificant flight is presented chronologically, with drawings and details where necessary, and a summary of the .flight result.s is· given. To render this information useful, an index has been prepared with re- ference made to flights which show typical or important results in each category.
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.