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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. 319 …other things, the "sound channel" in the ocean. He proved that explosions could be heard thousands…
  • p. 567 …feet carried this second flight into the Pacific Ocean. Radar~ RDF and theodolite were used to…
Fligl\t 106: Released fran Alamogordo, New Mexico, 0657 M.ST, February a. 1949
Recovered at Ellsmore, Kansas
1'his was the first .flight to clearly demonstrate the e.f.ficieilt action
ot a combination ballast control--displacement switch and rate-or-ascent
nitch--on a 2o-toot, .001• polyethylene balloon. From the height-time curve
and ballast-flaw record (Figure 54), it will be seen that the ballast con-
trol waa operating at 41,000 teet USL during the period or radio reception
from Alamogordo, New Mexico. By the time the second receiving station picked
up the signal, all of the ballast had been exhausted and the balloon was
falling. On this flight a high loss of lifting gas caused the total ballast
load ot 600 g~s to be exhausted in leas than .five hours. (Average used in
first two hours was 1700 grams per hour.)
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RIIIGIId at Alamo9ordo,N:M.
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'!he deaoent point or this balloon was compared with "that predicted fran a
study or the atmospheric pressure patterns at floating level. Assuming gao-
strophic tlaw, members or a graduate class in meteorology at New York

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