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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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may ditter markedly from the problems ot surface measurement. For example; tor any instrument used on a floating balloon, same consideration must be given to the effect of solar radiation on its behavior. As mentioned in the discussion of the automatic ballast valve, this effect is especially important in the action ot any aneroid or other capsule which is not com- pletely temperature compensated. Since the floating balloon will remain within one parcel of air, rising and falling and moving sidewise as iile air does, temperature extremes will result tram radiation effects and lack 9 ot ventilation. One investigator has estimated that the temperatures to be experienced by such a bQdy range tram -60°C after a night of radiation to a maximum of .f.so0 c in direct sunlight. Two ways of partially circum- venting the undesirable results of this feature are: 1. Temperature compensation of the pressure capsule for some pre-set 5 pressure. T:his compensation is only complete at one pressure. 2. A second method of reducing insolation effects is the use of highly reflective shields. The meiilods of height determination used so far are not completely satisfactory. Pressure-heights have been obtained by 72 me. and 397 me. radiosonde transmitters with long-lite battery packs. Difficulties have been experienced in all long flights due to: l. Signals being lost due to excessive range or to pOM•er failure. 2. ~~en the balloon begins to float and height oscillations result from the action of the automatic balla.st valve, it is impossible to identify the radiosonde contact (hence the pressure) using the conventional baroswitch of the Diamond-Hinman type radiosonde. These steps are now being taken to improve height measurements: 1. The addition to the .flight train or a light-weight barograph. - 11 -
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