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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 97: Released from Alamogordo, New Mexico, 0856 MST, September 10, 1948
Recovered at Duncan, Oklahoma
On this flight a .001", 20-foot polyethylene balloon was used to test a
new type or ballast·control. In this system, ballast flow was excited at any
altitude if the balloon descended at a rate equal to or greater than l milli-
bar in five minutes.
The buoyancy record and the Olland-cyole pressure data obtained from this
flight show a disagreement of about 10,000 feet (Figure 45). No explanation
has been provided for this difference and the following evidence has been
considered. 'lhe predicted floating level was about 45,000 feet, in agreement
with the Olland-cycle radiosonde data. On the other hand, the balloon rose
extremely slowly and may have taken in air to dilute the lifting gas. In this
event, the floating level Jr.ight easily have been reduced by 10,000 feet·.
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Once at the floating level, however, the balloon ?.'8.S maintained within
1000 feet (or 1200 feet) of a constant level for over four hours. This in-
dicated that the control system was in operation since previous flights
{88 and 93) at this altitude descended after about two hours of flight with-
out ballast.
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