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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!!'ht 82: Released from Alamogordo, New Mexico, 0515 MST, August 10, 1948 Recovered at Roswell, New iloiexico This flight was made with a 20-foot, .001" polye~~ylene balloon carrying a load to 54,000 feet and sustained by a t·ixed-leak orl'ice control, ex- pending ballast at abcut 525 grams per hour. '\Vith 4500 grams of ballast aboard the· balloon should have been increasingly buoyant t'or ~ hours after release. From the barogram (Figure ~5) it may be seen that the "ceiling" did rise, at T1me-MST NYU BALLOON PROJECT FLIGHT 82 Barograph Record Of G.M. 20• Plast1c Balloon W1th 5 34 gm/hr F1xed Balldst Leak RELEASED AT ALAMOGORDO, N.M.- 0511 MST, 10 AUG 1948 DESCENDED AT ROSWELL,N.M.- 1630 MST, 10 AUG 1948 DURATION- IIi hra Figure 35 a rate of 700 feet per hour (525 gra.."lls of' ballast was lost each hour), i'or about 7~ hours, and then generally accelerating descent was experienced. On this flight, radio reception was maintained i'or the entire air-borne period of 11 hours. Flight 82 is a good example of i'light using a single fixed-leak orifice for altitude control by ballast dropping. -43-
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