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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.

  • 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…
were to be treed at 40,000. 42.000 and 45.000 teet. The use ot sand ballast.
to be dropped in increments upon descent to altitudes below 31,000 teet.
was supplemented by an early model ot the automatic ballast valve set to ex-
pend liquid ballast at 34,000 teet.
From the height-time curve ot the flight (Figure 2), it will be seen that
the maximum altitude reached was much abOTe the predicted 35,000 teet. .Also
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the rate ot rise was greater than expected. Both of these evidences of ex-
cess buoyancy are attributed to superheating of the balloon by sunshine.
The real height is somewhat in doubt because the conventional radiosonde bare-
switch (Army type ML-310/)was used. and the pressure signal which was trans-
mitted was ambiguous at some points.
On this fli£;ht theodolite !"eadings were taken until the balloon was 90
miles away from release point after 260 minutes of flight. In addition,
visual observations were taken from a B-17 aircraft which circled the bal-
loon for most of the flight.
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