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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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Flig}lt 102: Released f'rom Red Bank, New Jersey, 1023 EST, December 9, 1948 Not recovered Flight 102 was the first teat given to a 30-foot, .ool" polyethylene bal- loon manufactured by General Mills, Inc.J with this balloon a 30-kilogram pay- load was successfully lifted to 58,000 feet. A combination rate-of-ascent switch and displacement switch was used to control ballast flow, but no record of ballast was made since the ballast meter was broken at launching. Flight data was received by three ground stations, and the signal from the AM-1 transmitter (with about 10 pounds of batteries) was received for about 400 miles. This was a good test of the distance to which a signal may be transmitted by the AM-1 (N.Y.U) transmitter under daytime conditions. The trajectory of this flight is Figure 48. STEW .. !IT ffi M.!=..u ··~··01010,... ... ., ------·-· ····- --- ·• --~ ---1' • Io!IAJIC:TORY- FLo•wT 10.! 1 RELI..ASED AT RED BANK, N.J., DEc:. 9-1~411- 1023ESr +---~-- ----------- ·- Figure 48 In the height-time curve (Figure 49) it is interesting to note the descent Which began shortly before sunset. · There is reason to believe that this fall was being checked by ballast flow. The normal descent atter a balloon -58-
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