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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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Flight 12 was designed to overcame the difficulties encountered in flights 8 and 11, and, by the use of a thin tear-drop balloon (General Mills balloon) to earn~ the load to a higher altitude than flight 10. To guarantee a predetermined constant ballast flaw, the manual ballast valve we.s added to the flight train. The minimum pressure switch replaced the fixed pressure switch to activate the automatic ballast valve, whether or not a predete~ined activation altitude was reached. Figure 46 shows the train; figure 47 shows the time-altitude curve, Which exhibits a marked departure from the ideal. The minimum pressure switch failed to operate or operated near surface pressure, effectively preventing the operation of the automatic ballast valve. The manual ballast valve did not provide sufficient rlow to prevent the gradual descent of the balloon. Finally, the heavy load necessitated almost complete inflation of the balloon at the surface. lhis distention permitted continual mixing of air through the open bottom of the balloon. Instead of reaching the pre- calculated 38,000 feet maximum altitude, this flight had a peak of 14,000 feet from which it slowly descended. Since the blowout patch was set to act upor. descent to 20,000 feet, it also failed to operate. Five of the succeeding flights (nos. 13, 14, 15, 16 and 20) had as a prime objective the development of a satisfactory a.ppendix to overcome the loss of buoyancy due to mixing during launching and ascent. fhe types considered have been discussed in Section II, Part A of this· report and the (two foot) appendix stiffened with battens, Which was finally evolved, is shown in figure 5. Figures 48, 49 and 50 show the time-altitude curves for these flights. Either short flight or limited radio reception curtailed the trajectory data. In flight 19, the danger to perscrmel of the blowout patch was - 29 -
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