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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. 106 n1e Public Information Office was host during the mon~~ to the Senior Air Scouts of ~ie…
  • p. 801 …Up to Boston with Lt Frank Ryder with Navy and \.JHOI April 15 Mon. Contacted Doc…
  • p. 802 …I caught 5.50 train out of Penn Station to Red Bank, NJ April 29 Mon…
  • p. 804 …Dec 9 Mon. Oakhurst. Finished getting all equipment ready for Alamogordo. Chantz, Woody and I went…
  • p. 807 …Arrived AP about 1230 Feb 3 Mon Oakhurst. Peoples in Washington regarding balloon ascention in June…
  • p. 808 …Feb 24 Mon. Alamogordo. '.faited for air transportation today but none available and may not be…
  • p. 809 …In Asbury Park 3 pm March 10 Mon Oakhurst. Vivian and I worked on Flight 25…
  • p. 810 …Cleaned out hanger and emptied trash out at East White Sands April 7 Mon Talked to…
  • p. 811 …April 21 Mon. Alamogordo Air Base. Bill Edmonston and I went out to Tularosa Range and…
  • p. 812 …Took sleeper out of Canton for NYC May 12 Mon. Arrived NYC and caught 0940 out…
  • p. 813 …May 26 Mon. Worked on Tests 1 and 2 records today. No signals from Roswell - some…
  • p. 814 …Took Treland, Mears, Winton, Olsen to Alamogordo to catch train this pm June 9 Mon. Bill…
  • p. 815 …July 7 {Mon) Alamogordo. Balloon Flight 11 A off at 0503. Big plastic with small auxiliary…
  • p. 816 …July 1 Mon. To cabins near Geneva, N.Y. July 15 Tues. Stopped at Syracuse. Got…
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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