Documents / FOIA release

roswell

Office of the Secretary of Defense · 993 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

Open the PDF at page 536 Original source ↗

“Gray”8 pages

  • 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…
l'ligllt 5& Released trom Alamogordo, New Mexico, 051 T liST, June 5, 1947
Recovered at Roswell, New Mexico
In this flight, a 65-pound load was lifted with a linear array of 28
350-g~ rubber balloons. By attaching the balloons at 20-toot intervals
along the load line, a total length ot apout 600 teet was required. 1'he
train ia shown in Figure 1. For altitude control, three lifting balloons
...
.g?_-LifTER BALLOONS
LJi -'""" '"'"'· ~" .,_.
TOTAL LF:NGTH 0,.8ALLOON TRAIN SIS'
(L!:U U.f"TE: R.S)
aoG+TE:$T NYLON LINE.
HAND tiRAIDf:D L08.JT £ R T\o/INC
~STIIAND 100e T~.~' NYLO ~
0---CANNON T')CUT or,-LAUNCHING LINE I.
·-._--.SILK PARACHUTC.
'"'-- 72.Q.R .. ~IOiONDt: 'WITH HE:AV f DUTY
8AT'I'ERIE$ ~ND tS ORDINAT !:' 'HUMIDIT ,·
.J ·...--- PAy UAll (1~10 'W T.) I<I!:S;ITOR.
~ -- !!A~LOON TO BURN O:cf" AT 45CCO'.
14' • --FIII~LO)N TO BUR" o~fAT41.00Q'.
--HALF' F':LLP:DBALLOON TOLlUii:IOfF'AT
4-rJf.J'JO'
--- li PO:NT PAE.S~URE. .~'vJI"T'.:H F'"')R .:J BJ.Li_()ON&
.\NDML!..J..~T
--· iAH)B-ILLUT 1111 PLASTIC TUBE~, TOTAL o.-
S!O·)Jm B.t.LLAST,DRQI'PI!:D rtl THE F'OL,LO\ofiNG
INCREMENTS'
500 3• AT'.:li,OOO'
~,,. AT 'I.'K)OO'
TOO,_ AT '1.7,000'
7 00,_ AT 13,000'
\
TOO.,,. AT 14000'
roo, .. " T 1~ooa (1!
T00,. "'-T "000' it
l'u.STIC Rf:Sf:R'IOIR ANll DRIBBLER S£ T A
'-------------....-. . 4~00'
Figure l a Train, Flight 5
were cut tree at 35,000 teet, and the remaining load was weighted to balance
at that point. Aa a precaution against over-buoyanoy 11 three more balloon•
-6-

Cases discussed

About this file

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.