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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 93: Released from Alamogordo, New ~xico, 0712 MST, September 1, 1948
Recovered at Neuvas Casas Grandee, Chihuahua, Mexico
This daytime fiight with a 20-foot, .001" polyethylene balloon 118nt up
with detective ballast oontrolsJ consequently the flight's main value is tn
Showing the netural stability of such a balloon without any altitude con-
trols. As with Flight 88, which went to about the same height (40,000 teet),
this balloon remained at a near-floating level for less than two hours
(Figure 42). It is interesting to compare this duration at 40,000 teet with
the four-hour duration at 50,000 fe~t shown on Flight 70 and 71. Probably
the effect of reduced pressure on diffusion of the lifting gas is a major
factor contributing to the longer floating period at the lower pressure.
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Sept 1,1948- 0721 M.SI H---t\\,....-i
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Figure 42
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