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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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Flight lOa Relea1edtrom Alamogordo, New Mexico, 0601 MST, July 6, 1947 Not recovered !hie flight wa1 the first to use a large plastic balloon as the lifting vehicle. !he oell was spherical, 16 teet in diameter, and the walls were .ooa• polyethylene heat sealed at the seams (made by Harold A. Smith, Inc.). 1he altitude control was an automatic ballast valve, pressure-triggered to throw ott liquid ballast. !he equipment train used on this flight is shown in Figure 5. IS' d•a.-.ooe• t"•cK polyethylene """""' Ba.lloon. H.A..Sm.th l"C. "'"""'• Re•nforced blo"'·out p•tch to be Open Appe nclur. Pr~savre opetatiHI MlLIUt v•lve ~1c) utv•tt4 lly 30t" c••tG.et .' ot ,.......... IIU. IWthlt. ope ned by T1me -clo~k. Br1d.le ot 9 nylon line.), ecach ISO I: test, I~' lo ...,, .servecl toea t"unble o.nd catto.ched to ~~~~~ fo~ced po.tches o.t o.lternclte .seo.ma. Po.vlocad 74.5 me. Ro.d•o•onde :,.,,th to' ... ~ fed. o.ntenno.. Hea.vy cluty '-a 1n blo.tl< bollu,,.t.,.tllvt•n• wro.pped. Plo.at•c b•U.o.at R• .. rvoar '-litll 3,000 9~ bo.lLa.at. Figure 6: Train, Flight 10 The balloon rose to about 16,000 teet MSL and dropped back to 9000 teet MSL where_ it "floated" tor at least 4 hours, at which time radiosonde re- ception tailed. It ia believed that the automatic ballast valve sealed ott -10-
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