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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 90: Released from Alamogordo, New A~xico, 1502 MST, August 27, 1948 Recovered at Roswell, New Mexico '!he .001", 2Q-foot polyethylene balloon used on this flight was released in mid-afternoon to provide a test of the sunset efi'ect on a balloon supported by the automatic ballast valve. From the height-time curve, Figure· 40, it may be seen that the balloon had attained a floating altitude shortly before the sunset and that the action of the automatic ballast 'V8.lve was sufficient to restore the buoyancy Figure 40 FLIGHT 90 Releoted ot Alomocpdo, N.M. 1948-ISCYlM.ST. and cause the balloon toegain reach a floating condition. The difference be- tween the two floating levels ms.y be explained b;r a c·onsidere.tion of the auto- matic ballast valve and the minimum-pressure switch which was used to seal off its aneroid capsule. Since the balloon had not fallen far enough to permit the switch to seal off the valve before sunset, this action was accomplished -48-
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