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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 79: Released from .Alamogordo. New Mexico, 1614 JIST, July 23, 1948 Recovered at .Alamogordo, New Mexico This was the third attempt to use a coated nylon balloon, sealed off wi tb. a Yalve in the })ottom. From Figure 32, the height-time curve, it may be seen Figure 32 that this balloon did not remain aloft very long but that a high degree of superheat was generated in the lifting gas, despite the aluminum coating ot the balloon. The automatic ballast controls included in the flight equipment were in- operativ~and as soon as the balloon lost its initial excess buoyancy (corre- sponding to the super-pressure maintained behind the safety valve) it de- scended. From the speed of the descent it was computed that an accelerating force equal to 5% of the gross load (52 kg) was acting to bring the balloon down. This force was in turn derived from the loss of lift encountered when over 300C of superheat was lost by ventilation. -t9-
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