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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 96: Released from Alamogordo, New Mexico, 0733 MST, September 8, 1948 Not recovered On Flight 96 a .001", 20-foot polyethylene balloon was used to carry a ballast meter to ab6ut 45,000 feet to deter.mine the flow required at that altitude using an automatic ballast valve. No recor• of ballast flow was telemetered during this flight, but it is not known whether the meter was inoperative, or the valve itself failed--possibly due to failure of a squib to detonate at the combined low pressure and cold temperature aloft. From the height-time curve, Figure 44, it will be noted that the balloon was in a near-floating condition for about four hours when the transmitter 40 / llllllff-~ CUIIVK ~ ICIUMD G'/CU _, ~ ( I lJ FUGHT 96 i J Flllleated at Alamocpdo,NM. I' Slpt.8, ·~48 - 0733 M.S.t I / 10 1!0 • 1/oj I-·· : ·-· -tu:r 0 01110 0100 1000 1100 1100 1100 Figure 44 signal gave out. There is no way of telling whether the constant-level flight obtained ~~s due to the natural buoyancy of the balloon or the action of the automatic ballast valve. -54-
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