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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.

  • p. 319 …other things, the "sound channel" in the ocean. He proved that explosions could be heard thousands…
  • p. 567 …feet carried this second flight into the Pacific Ocean. Radar~ RDF and theodolite were used to…
l'li~t 43 through 5la In April. 1948 a number of flights were made using
.06 polyethylene balloons and fixed-leak ballast controls. Only tour
of these flights were recovered.. The landing points ot these are shown 1n
Figure 16.
PointsriRacovery
for
Aprl-1948 Flighls
Figure 15
...
Little is known positively about the floating levels since radiosonde
data was not obtained on most flights, and no barographs were available.
Three receiving stations at Alamogordo, Roswell and Carlsbad, New Mexico were
used to position the balloon with radio direction-finding equipment. By
assuming • floating level corresponding to the load, several flight patterns
were derived. No aircraft tracking was provided to check these comi>uted.
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