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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. 5 …possible without the expert assistance and outstanding cooperation of many persons and organizations. Appreciation is extended…
  • p. 18 …These were to continue the cooperative wartime relationship between civilian research institutions and the military, and…
  • p. 181 …have imagined a lot of things and cooperated more. MC: Well, that's what Doyle said…
  • p. 736 …Meisinger was interested 1 Sponsored by, and in cooperation with the Watson Labora~ tories of the…
  • p. 805 …Made arr- angements for cooperation with Evans in coming tests. Jan 4 Sat. At Oakhurst about…
  • p. 821 …ewer 6/16/47 Mr. r. Y. Cooper SpeCification ot Considering 959 lbittier .lYe. large balloon…
A comparison ot the point ot descent predicted from geostrophio flow
and that actually observed was made by members ot a graduate ola.ss ot
meteorology at New York University (Figure 67). Using an airplane tix
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snade during the flight the actual trajectory seems to have oeen well to the
north ot the "center ot gravity" of predicted points ot descent. and ·the
actual flight path was considerably longer than that predicted. Since the
pressure pattern at the eastern end of the flight "W&.s anticyclonic, this
seems to be in accordance with the idea of super-geostrophic flow associated
with anticyclonic systems. As in all the earlier cases where such a study
was made, ·the balloon apparently moved across the isobars toward lower
pressure.

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