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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.
Flight 88: Released from Alamogordo, New Mexico, 1241 MST, August 25, 1948 Recovered at Lovington, Texas This flight was planned to measure the diffusion and leakage of lifting gas through a 2Q-foot, .001 11 polyethylene balloon at 40,000 feet. A fixed- leak orifice was set to flaw at 100 grams per hour, and an automatic ballast valve was included to supply more ballast as demanded. This automatic valve broke on release, and the flow of 100 grams per hour was not sufficient to keep the balloon and equipment up. Temperature data on this flight was obtained from thermistors inside the balloon, inside the battery and in the free air. These data and the height- time curve are shown in Figure 38. During the period from 1400 to 1530 when =10 I 40 I 10 r-".. • , ' . JIO 10 I 0 I/I I -10 .. Figure 38 the balloon was slowly descending, the temperature of the gas increased with respect to the free air temperature, and a differential of 150C was recorded at 1530. With subsequent, more rapid descent, this differential was reduced, presumably by ventilation. The batter~ box temperature remained above lOOC after four hours aloft. -46-
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