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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.
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sufficiently to caaae.a Short between the electrodes, firing the squib prematurely. If the distance is too large, however, therewill be too great a height difference between the ttme of minimum pressure and the time the electrodes are shorted. For instance, a spacing of 10 l!Uile would delay the firing of the squib until the pressure reached 13.3 mb. above the min~um pressure. At an altitude of 50,000 teet, the equivalent height (standard atmosphere) would be about 2300 feet. It is obvious that tor high level flights, a less dense rund lower freezing electrolyte tor the minimum pressure gwitch ~11 be needed to obtain the desired sensitivity of 2000 teet. By adding the pressure-activated automatic ballast valve to the manual ballast valve, the complete patter.n of the solid curte in Figure 7 may be achieved ideally. At sunset the rapid cooling oaases descent which cannot be canpensated for by the manual ballast valve. As soon as the seal- off pressure of the automatic ballast valve is exceeded by the atmospheric pressure, ballast flow is begun, Which restores the balloon to its ceiling. The dashed curve in Figure 7 shows the action of a balloon when the automatic ballast valve alone is used tor control purposes. In this case the balloon ~11 si:rlk slowly from its ceiling (where full buoyancy just equals the load) to the level where the e.utom tic ballast valve drops ballast at a rate equal to the diffusion (the floor). It will be noted that a flight which is controlled in this manner is less wasteful of ballast and results in a correspondingly longer flight. lne "floor" determined by this valve varies diurnally as the temperature (hence pressure) of the air entrap}?ed in the diaphragm is affected by solar radiation. 'i'le amplitude of this diurnal oscillation may be as much as 6000 feet. the nignt level being higher than the day level. - 9 -
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