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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. 42 …An advance ground team, led by Albert P. Crary, preceded the NYU group to Alamogordo Army…
  • p. 115 …OSI also developed an advanced Narcotics Investigations Course designed to teach the latest technics in combatting…
  • p. 206 …Dr Crazy and Dr Peoples were the advance people and scientific monitors for our project Dr…
  • p. 283 …Spilly was a consultant, and even in his advancing age he was still an enormous source…
  • p. 322 …20 On May 28, the advance party of the balloon group arrived by B-17.21…
  • p. 708 …in advance of balloon release and a second notice will be filed at the time of…
  • p. 709 B • FRASE II. (l) The type balloon to be used in this phase of the project…
  • p. 791 …Upon attaining the desired altitude, the auxilliary lifting balloons wife be released from the main 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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