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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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Fli!te 13, 14, 16,. 16 and 201 JIILde in September,. 194'1,. they had as their pr ry purpose the testing ot external balloon appendices to prevent ex- cessin dilution ot the lifting gas with air. Pn 'three ot these flights the loose polyethylene tubes twisted shut during the balloons• ·ascent and caused the cell to burst as it became tull. '!he unsatisfactory models tried are seen in Figure 10, as well aa the skirt T t l_ 10' Fi~e 10 stiffened with external battens which was developed on Flight 20· and used successfully thereafter. On most of these flights,. radio diraction-tinding equipment (SCR-658) was used, as well as theodolite and aircraft tor tracking and positioning the balloons. A system ot air reconnaissance and ground recovery was de- veloped using a radio-equipped jeep to move cross-country at the direction of the aircraft observer. Several satisfactory recovery missions were made on these and later flights using this technique. -16-
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.