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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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  • p. 9 …Appendices to the McAndrew Synopsis are identified by gray tabs which apear at the top right…
  • p. 28 …The rubber was smoky gray in color and scattered over an area about 200 yards in…
  • p. 38 …a thick, foil like metallic gray substance; a brittle, brownish-black plastic- like material, like Bakelite…
  • p. 43 …the ruptured and shredded neoprene would "almost look like dark gray or black flakes or ashes…
  • p. 205 …Some of the material would ahnost look like dark gray or black flakes or ashes after…
  • p. 222 …He talks about the smoky gray rubber ••. Q: Which these samples here, as you say, if…
  • p. 241 …There's a gray area here. I was certainly aware that what we were doing in…
  • p. 379 …that he might have found a smoky gray in color and scattered vatlon balloons on the…
during the sunset descent (caused when the superheated helium lost the sun's
heating ei'i'eot). A further descent of 5 mb (500 feet at this level) was re-
quired to start the tlow of ballast. By this time, the balloon had lost
considerable lift and in exchange had acquired a daw.nwara velocity of about
120 feet per minute. To check this descent a ballast f'low was required for
about 40 minutes. During the next hour the balloon 'W8.s buoyant and climbing
baok to the seal-off pressure of the automatic ballast valve. The ineffi-
ciency of' this valve system is demonstrated by the ballast which was lost
after the balloon had regained its buoyancy and had begun to rise. More
ballast was wasted than •·•s required to check the descent. Indeed, the
entire 3000 grams available was expended at this time, according to the evi-
dence of' the ballast meter.
On this flight there was no apparent change in the activation pressure of
the automatic ballast aneroid between the times when ballast flow began and
ended. This indicates that the entrapped air had not experienced any signi-
ficant temperature change during the two hours or ballast operation.
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