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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.
Fliget 86: Released from Alamogordo, N6W Mexico. 0941 MST. August 19. 1948 Recovered at Valmont, New Mexico This was the fourth flight made with a single, 7-foot, .001" polyethylene balloon (Figure ~7), carrying a light load to relatively low altitudes. Figure 37: 7-Foot polyethylene balloon On Flight 74, the automatic ballast meter showed that a ballast flow ot· <::00 grams per hour was required by an automatic ballast valve on such a balloon. Flight 84 was launched in August, 1948 with a low-altitude barograph and no altitude controls to ascertain how long such a balloon would stay up. Using radar and helicopter that balloon was tracked for nearly 2 hours at an altitude of 12.500 feet with a load of 3 kilograms. It was still floating when lost. On Flight 86, a fixed ballast leak was used, set at 170 grams per hour. After an early failure of the radiosonde transmitter, this balloon was followed with a plane; a 1'1oating level of about 14,500 feet was maintained for 4 hours, with a rise of "ceiling" of about 1200 t'eet per hour. This balloon was observed during descent and was still distended, indicating that the lifting gas had been replaced by air both before and during descent. -45-
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