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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.

  • p. 42 …An advance ground team, led by Albert P. Crary, preceded the NYU group to Alamogordo Army…
  • p. 115 …OSI also developed an advanced Narcotics Investigations Course designed to teach the latest technics in combatting…
  • p. 206 …Dr Crazy and Dr Peoples were the advance people and scientific monitors for our project Dr…
  • p. 283 …Spilly was a consultant, and even in his advancing age he was still an enormous source…
  • p. 322 …20 On May 28, the advance party of the balloon group arrived by B-17.21…
  • p. 708 …in advance of balloon release and a second notice will be filed at the time of…
  • p. 709 B • FRASE II. (l) The type balloon to be used in this phase of the project…
  • p. 791 …Upon attaining the desired altitude, the auxilliary lifting balloons wife be released from the main balloon…
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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CH~ ~----~~
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Figure 42
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