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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 68: Released from Alamogordo, New Mexico, 2033 :MST, May 10, 1948 Recovered at Val D•Or, Quebec · A .001 11 polyethylene balloon was the vehicle on this flight carrying a barograph as ~11 as an early model of the Olland-cycle pressure modulator. This flight was released at night with a fixed ballast flow of about 300 ~rams per hour expected to keep the balloon afloat. From the barogram (Figure 22) (12-hour rotation) it appears that the orifice did not permit sufficient (if' any) flaw to maintain buoyancy during the first several hours (perhaps the orifice was clogged or frozen). After a descent to about :53,000 feet at 8\Jlri!'!ea floating level was maintained with 4 kilograms of ballast available. The full flow rate could not have been maintained much more than the 11 hours during which the balloon was at this pressure. :So~-+--+ &L .sort--r--r-i~~_.--~~~~t--t---T~-1--ti-~~r-i--t--t-~~--t-~ 0 ~40~--r-~-T--+--.--r---~--+-~--~~----~~=1--+--+--r-~~--+-~ c ; ~o~~~~~~~:I~~~~~~~~--LJt-~~=i~===:+=~~.... s -.c :2~-+--~~~~4--+--~~~--+-~~~~~--~~~~~~~r---~--+-~ % -·-~-- -·-··· 2000 2100 2200 2300 0000 0100 0200 0800 0900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 T1me- M.S.T NYU BALLOON PROJECT FUGHT 58 Barograph Record Of G.M. 20 ft. Plashc Balloon W1th 300 gm/hr F1xed Ballast Leak RELEASED AT ALAMOGORDO, N.M.- 2033 MST, 10 MAY, 1948 RECOVERED AT VAL D'OR, QUEBEC, CANADA-24 MAY,I94tl ESTIMATED DURATION- 24 112 hrs. Figure 22 On this flight, oscillations in the pressure record were seen. With no control system which could cause such behavior, they must be attributed to atmospheric motion. The descent point was compared with that expected from analyses of' the pressure field. The results of a number or such analyses are shown in -30-
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