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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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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 411------'-· FLIGHT-5 Released c:t Alamogordo,NM. IJune 5th,l947-o517 M.S.T. ·\~oo Pt/M ~f---4------+--~~======+=====~~---+~~u~no 2110 Figure 2 \ I \v:w=...'\ 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. -7-
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