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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.
Controls, first use of (cont'd.) fixed needle-valve ballast leakJl fixed orifice ballast leak, ~ -- minimum-preuure swi toh w1 thauto- matic ballast valve, 12 rate-of-ascent ballast sirtoh, 97 rate-of-ascent ballast switch -- combined with displacement switch, 102 superpre81uri; 23 lifter balloons, r. 7 1olid ballaat, 5, 1 superpressure, 23, 38, 59, 63, 66, 79, 87' 94- typioal flight with auto•tic ballaat valn, 92 fixed ballast leak, 82 rate-of-ascent ballast switch combined with displacement switch, .!2!. Deformation of air flow over mountain range, 11 Destruction device first use of, 10 first use of new design (ri~-out principle), ~. (Fig. 16) Dewey and A~, shrouded rUbber balloons, ~. 38, 66, 87 Drop sonde, .!!2_ Easterly winds at high levels, 60, 75 Fixed-leak ballast control first use of, 11 typical flightwith' 82 Flight patterns, typical with polyethylene balloons and automat!~ ballast-valve control, 92 with polyethylene balloODa and auto- matic ballast-valve control thru a sunset, 90, 92 with polyethylene balloons and fixed flow of ballast, 82 .Fl.irllt pattenss, :f;ypical loont'd.) wrth rubber balloons and 1ncreJilbt ballast loss, 5, 7 Geoetrpphic air flow, compared with balloon trajectories, 55, 58, 106, 110 Lange barograph first use of, 52 longest record-or, 75 Litter balloons for altitude control, 5, 7 lleteorograph, Fergusson, ~· 35, 39 Minimum-pressure switch tailures due to freezing of, 78, 80 first use of, 12 need for, demoiiitrated, 11 Olland-cycle pressure modulator, use of, ~· 52, 55, 68, 73, 97, 98 Oscillations- in the atll.osphere, 10., 62, 65, 58, 63, 71 Polyethylene balloons 7'-diameter, ''• 76, 86, 86 30 1 -diameter,""T02 15 1 -diemeter, W 20'-diameter, !l, 17 70' -diameter, !! Preasure-measuring instruments barograph, 3:S Lange barogii'ph, 52 Olland-o~le modulator, .!!• 52, 56, 58, 73, 97, 98 Program. switch, use of, !,2! Radar tracking, '15. 86 Radio direction-finding airborne, .!!.• 103, 110
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