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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 17, using a fifteen-foot balloon of .004 Polyethylene is worthy of special consideration. The thickness of this type of cell eliminates much of the problem of appendix design since more internal pressure can be withstood. Despite this factor, and the low permeability of the fabric, balloons of thie type are too heavy and costly to be used for higb altitude flights. The trajec.tory and time-altitude curve of this flight are shown in figure 56 and 57. This controlled-altitude flight demonstrates that the automatic ballast valve combined with a fixed leak, will successfully maintain constant altitude through a sunset. The balloon floated at 29,000 feet + 500 feet for at least three hours, after which the excessive range prevented further radio reception. Here again the necessity of a barograph was demonstrated as the balloon was recovered from Pratt, Kansas, 530 miles away. Two flights, 23 and 38, were made using the shrouded Dewey and Almy J-2000 Neoprene balloon. Both of these flights were failures. Flight 23 (see figure 48) attained a maximum altitude at 50,700 feet and began to descend immediately. Flight 38 (see figure 55) was observed from a B-25, and the balloon was seen to burst ld thin the shroud. Section 6. Current Objectives In order to meet the requirements for future flights, improvement must be made in three phases: 1. Performance data for too many flights have been either uncertain or of too short duration. Before more flights are undertaken, altitude~easuring instruments must be improved and increased. To this end, four specific improvements are being ur.dertaken: A. To supplement the pressure data received by r~dio, a lightweight barograph will be added to those fli~ht trains in the future when fli~ts of more thfl.n e. fow hours' duration are attempted, - 32 -
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