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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. 637 …TABLE III AVERAGE VHND INTENSITIES IN BEAUFORT SCALE AND WIND DIRECTIONS AT ELEVATIONS TO 10,000…
(2) From the mean sounding data at 49.200 ft. (15 km.)
over Lakehurst. N.J. (Jan.- 1943).
Temperature :-59.5°0•
Pressure : 120 mb.
(standard)
Temperature Pressure
x (observed) x (standard)
Temperature Pressure
(standard) (observed)
Molar volume
: Molar volume at observed conditions.
359 X 273.2 - 59.5 X 101~.3 : 2370 fte3
273.2 126
This is the mean pound molar volume at 15 km for Jan. 1943 over
Lakehurst. N. J. This volume data was computed for levels up to 100.000
tt. over several stations and may be found in Appendix 3 • plotted on fue
left hand side of figures 19 and 20.
B. Load-Diameter Maximum Altitude Relationships
Molar volume is related to buoyancy in the following fashion.
Using 98% hydrogen of molecular weight. 2· ..11 lb./mol. and dry air of
molecular weight 28.76 lb./mol •• a buoyancy equal to the difference.
26.65 lb/mol. (See Table IV) is available whenever one pound molecular
weight of hydrogen displaces one pound molecular weight of dry air under
the same conditions of temperature and pressure.
TABLE IV
Buoyancy per Pound-Mol.
Helium (98%)
Hydrogen ( 98%)
24.6 #/#mol. or
11.1 kg/=1/mol
26.&/f///mol. or
12.1 ky=/lmol
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