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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. 1 THE ROSWELL REPORT Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert Headquarters United States Air Force…
  • p. 7 Clinical Investigations and Life Sciences Division, Headquarters Air Force Medical Operating Agency, Bolling AFB, DC; John…
  • p. 28 …the disc had been "flown to higher headquarters." That same story also reported that a Roswell…
  • p. 30 …These locations include Fort Worth, Texas, the home of the Eighth Air Force Headquarters; possibly Sandia…
  • p. 71 DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE MEMORANDUM FOR FROM: AFiiN SUBJECT: References…
  • p. 75 …DuBose says officials at the Headquarters of the Eighth Air Force were directed to tell the…
  • p. 81 DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WASHINGTON DC MEMORANDUM FOR SAF/AAZ…
  • p. 89 DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE 09 Mar94 MEMORANDUMFORSAF/AAZ ATIENTION: Lt…
  • p. 107 …Colonel Loberg, Headquarters, Eighth Air Force, arrived this date to coordinate with S-3 and check…
  • p. 108 …Boatright, Headquarters, Eighth Air Force, arrived to coordinate with Statistical Control on cost analysis. 16 July…
  • p. 133 HEADQUARTERS, ARMY AIR FORCES WASHINGTON SUBJECT: Iuuance o! Ordera !01 Couaa8.1ng General .A.1r Materiel…
  • p. 144 …we haven't s~uadron or grou~ headquarters should take their people away. 1:55 P…
  • p. 159 …I did not make a report of this incident to my headquarters since I felt that…
  • p. 165 …700 CIC was the CIC Headquarters.
  • p. 166 …700 CIC was the Headquarters? SC: Yes, I don't think I even made a report…
  • p. 167 …I think this was taken at the Headquarters at Carswell. RW: Yeah, that's right. That…
  • p. 168 …I took it to 8th Air Force Headquarters, General Ramey was excited; they were going to…
  • p. 177 …I don't even want 700 CIC Headquarters to know we wasted our time on it…
  • p. 178 …So that, to me, implies that this would have been your CIC Headquarters also sent some…
  • p. 227 …I was assigned, believe it or not, to Headquarters, Air Force .•• I still have the Headquarters…
  • p. 265 …on the basis of orders out of Headquarters Army Air Force. Q: While you were operating…
  • p. 266 …These are the pictures taken in General Ramey's office, 8th Air Force Headquarters by a…
  • p. 282 …Then after I left the headquarters of ARDC in Baltimore, I spent four years at the…
  • p. 318 …debris be flown to Eighth Air Force Headquarters at Fort Worth AAF, TX, for his personal…
  • p. 327 …Andrews AAF was headquarters of the Army Air Forces Weather Service. It is also interesting to…
  • p. 407 HEADQUARTERS FITZWILLIAM FORWARD c/o Commander, Task Group 7.2 APO 187, c/o Postmaster San…
  • p. 409 …arrival of the explo- sion sound wave. Headquarters FITZ\nlliArA FCRI1ARD furnished ARPACAS 3-1 and…
  • p. 964 …Morgan, from Headquarters Eighth Air Force, ;'las here to confer with the Engineering Officer, Captain ?cterson…
  • p. 984 …Marcellus Duffy eliminated it and several others from the project when Headquarters U.S. Army Air…
Index
(All references are to flight numbert. The number of the flight on which a
particular instrument or principle wa~ first demonstrated is underlined.
For example, airborne radio direction finding was first used on Flight 41.)
Adiabatic temperature changes, 60, 75,
94
Airborne radio ~irection•finding, 41,
•103, 110 -
Airoratt tracking, 5, 7, 11, 12, 13-
20, 86, 108
Air flow
deformation of, over moUf1ta1n
range, ll
geostrophic, compared with balloon
trajec toriea, 55, 58 • 106, llO
Altitude sensitivity, 52, 82, 86, 110
Appendices (external) on polJ'Ithylene
balloons
first use of, 13
need for, demoilstra ted, lZ
stiffened with cardboa~. 20, 39
stiffened with metal, .!! -
Arrays of rubber balloons
cluster, 7
linear, 6
Atmospheric oscillations, 10, 52, 55,
58, 63, 71
Automatic P&llast valve
effect of superheat on, 10, 74, 80,
92
first activated by minimum-pressure
nitch, 12
first use or, 5
sunset effect on, 80, 90, 92
typical f'light with, 92
Ballast meter
need f'or, demonstrated, 29-39
use of, 74, 78, 80, 86, 89, 90, 92
94, 9'6."102
Ballast requirements
with .ool", 7'-diameter poly•
ethylene balloons, 74
with .cxn•, 20'•cU.ameter pol-7-
ethylene balloons, 64, ae. 60,
80, 92, 106
68
Ballast requirements (oont'd.)
with .oos•, 15 •-di...._r polyethylene
balloCD, ll
with Seytanc balloCIIl, 94
Balloons
flights using other than pol,.thylene
neoprene-coated nylon (Seyfan!),
59, 63, 79, 94
rubber, 5, 7
shrouded rubber (Dewey and Alley'),
23, 38, 66, 87
fl~ghts using polyethylene
.001",7'-diameter, 74
.001",20'-diamster,~
.001",70'-diamster, W
.001",30'-diameter, 102
.004",20'-diameter, W
.oo8",15'·diameter, ~
Barograph
longest record ~f, 75
need for~ demonstrated, 17, 29, 30, 32
use of (Fergusson), 33, 35, 39
use of new model (Lange), 52
Buoyancy
changes in, due to sunset, 75, 90
natural
Seyfang balloons in the troposphere, 79
1' -diameter polyethy.iene balloons
in the troposphere, 86
20'-diameter polyethylene balloons
in the stratoJphere, 60, 96
20'-diameter polyethylene balloons
in the troposphere, 70, 71, 88,
93, 98
70'-diameter polyethylene balloons
in the stratosphere, 76
Combination control (rate of ascent ballast
switch with displacement switch)
first use of, 102
typical flight~th, 106
Controls
first use of
automatic ballast valve, 5

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