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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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the balloon is not visible due to haze. cloud cover. etc. Ground radar has been used • .nen available, ~th fair results. particularly when radar targets are added to the flight train. E. Fligh.t Termination Control Due to the size and weight of the balloons and the flight gear • the Civil Aeronautics Authority was advised oft he testing program. At a meeting in New York an 20 .March 1947, the New York Air Space Sub-Committee prescribed a procedure which was designed to minimize the hazard to air traffic. Similarly, the Fort Worth Sub-Committee established a procedure for flights made within the Fort V1orth .ttegion of the cAA. Pertinent cor- respondence with the CAA is included in the Appendix. Part 2. Owing to the si. ze of these cells, a very slow rate of descent should be expected atter all ballast has been expended and the flight control devices have ceased to operate. Thus a large balloon and several heavy pieces of equipment might take an hour or more to descend through the levels of air travel. Despite the extreme improbability of midair collision. it is obviously desirable to take all possible precautions against such mishap and current flights have the following safeguards: (1) Flights are released on days ~hen cloud cover is forecast to be light. thus permitting visual contact. (2) Notices to airmen are to be issued if the balloon is descending within designated regions of dense air tra~fic. (3) To reduce the time involved in a final descent, a special device called the "blowout patch" has been~eveloped. This is an igniting squib which is fastened to the side of the cell. on the equator. Sealed in with the squib, which is fired electrically ~hen the cell descends below 20.000 feet, is a quantity of gunpowder and magnesium. When the squib is fired. the incendiary patch blows out, allowing a rapid escape of gas through the opening. Since the - 14 -
FOIA release, from the osd collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 993 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.