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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. 9 …Appendices to the McAndrew Synopsis are identified by gray tabs which apear at the top right…
  • p. 28 …The rubber was smoky gray in color and scattered over an area about 200 yards in…
  • p. 38 …a thick, foil like metallic gray substance; a brittle, brownish-black plastic- like material, like Bakelite…
  • p. 43 …the ruptured and shredded neoprene would "almost look like dark gray or black flakes or ashes…
  • p. 205 …Some of the material would ahnost look like dark gray or black flakes or ashes after…
  • p. 222 …He talks about the smoky gray rubber ••. Q: Which these samples here, as you say, if…
  • p. 241 …There's a gray area here. I was certainly aware that what we were doing in…
  • p. 379 …that he might have found a smoky gray in color and scattered vatlon balloons on the…
Flig}lt 2Sa Released fran Alamogordo, New Mexico, 0918 MST, September 12, 1947
'ot recovered
A J-2000 neoprene balloon was encased with a nylon shroud and jrovided
with a Taln to penni t gas to escape after a IDI!Illl superpreuure ( 4 ·" ot
water) as exceeded. The balloon in its shroud 1a 1hawn in Figure 12.
Figure 12: Neoprene balloon encased in a nylon shroud
If a "superpressure" balloon ia used, much lesa ballast is required since,
during minor oscillations, the reduction of buoyancy will not cause the bal-
loon to descend as long as the remaining buoyancy is equal to or greater than
the load supported.
!his balloon, and three similar ones (Flights 38, 66, 87), failed to achieTe
any constancy of altitude. All four tailed during the rising period or soon
after the shroud became full. (The balloons were heated prior to release
to re1tD»e elasticity.)
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