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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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- p. 228 …overhead and followed the
balloons out to sea. I have no idea about the results that…
- p. 235 …the regular 334
that we had at sea level. From that they could deduce the
temperature…
- p. 279 …actually located on the jurisdictional lines between
Sea Girt and Springlake, New Jersey. It was an…
- p. 280 …The Sea Girt Inn?
A: Exactly. That's where John had his office, and I was…
- p. 400 …alone 1a about 24,000.m1lea at sea level,
aDd about '500 allea at 45,000…
- p. 407 …five (25) feet at their ls.rgest sea-level diameter. The sonic
unit was a combination…
- p. 466 …hour when one-fifth inf~ated at sea level).
One other type of balloon which has…
- p. 490 …Let us, then, compare the rate of
leakage at any given altitude with leakage at sea…
- p. 492 …The leakage at any
altitude may be expressed as a function of leakage at sea
level…
- p. 493 Comparing rete of leakage at 40,000 feet with leakage at
sea level:
~ 188 .u§. - 0…
- p. 495 …It a 20-foot diameter balloon~ full were tested at
10
sea level and found to…
- p. 496 …At sea level this is equivalent to 5.32 ~r. for a 20-foot
diameter balloon…
- p. 502 …Using the rules of subsonic aerodynamics, Picard
suggests that air at sea level escaping at 1333…
- p. 503 …sea level (psi)
escape velocity of air to produce back pressure
of 1 atmosphere at sea…
- p. 520 …to about 20 millibars and increased to sea-level pressure at
different temperatures.
The most comprehensive…
- p. 654 …The height above mean sea level as determined fram
pressure measurements used in this work with…
- p. 686 …to a thtmble
a.nd attached to re1n forced pCltches
at alterna.te .sea.m.s…
- p. 688 …lQr9e
Ba.lloo n ~hould trQin de .sea nd to 101000'.
6 each.-Gene ral M1lls…
- p. 736 …point
at which the radiosonde reaches the sea surface.
2. Earlier attempts
There have been numerous…
- p. 737 …The
balloons floated between the surface and 30,000 ft
above sea level; those which reached…
- p. 801 …Vet Gifford ;.;ho has
0 0' sea rescue boat this project is planning to use. Stayed…
- p. 816 …Worzel
working on gravity at sea. Saw Geo Woollard and the Ryders. Woollard after Guggenheim
fellowship…
- p. 887 …the launching site is
markedly different from sea level, a shift in this curve
is needed…
- p. 925 …balloon
at all times with respect to sea level. On this curve also
it is customary…
- p. 933 …The height above ~ean sea level as determined
from pressure measurements used in this work
with…
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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