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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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  • p. 12 …Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July 9, 1947 17. Satement, Lt. Col. Sheridan…
  • p. 13 …Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July 9, 1947 2. Organizational Chart, Watson Laboratories…
  • p. 30 …These locations include Fort Worth, Texas, the home of the Eighth Air Force Headquarters; possibly Sandia…
  • p. 34 …DC; Federal Records Center, Ft Worth, TX; the INSCOM Archives, Fort Meade, MD; National Air and…
  • p. 38 …in the famous photos (Atch 16) in Fort Worth was that of a radar target normally…
  • p. 39 …were told was a flying saucer to Fort Worth. The people on board included ... and Maj…
  • p. 40 …Newton was a weather officer assigned to Fort Worth, who was on duty when the Roswell…
  • p. 45 …photographs taken at the time by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, that depicted Ramey and Marcel…
  • p. 46 …the wreckage prior to its getting to Fort Worth. This organization reported on July 20, 1994…
  • p. 51 …After the autopsies, conspiracy theorists said the bodies were flown to Fort Worth and then to…
  • p. 75 …Some of the debris was flown to Fort Worth, ..as where the Commander of the Eighth…
  • p. 101 …Center (WNRq or the Southwest Regional Depository (Fort Worth, Texas). Recommendations Because the records management policy…
  • p. 151 16 Fort Worth Star-Telegram Photographs of Balloon Debris July 9, 1947
  • p. 159 …taken to Eighth AU- Force Headquarters in Fort Worth where it was subsequently identified as a…
  • p. 167 …Marcel took it to Fort Worth. Yeah that's the ... RW: ·Yeah. That doesn't look…
  • p. 168 …into Wright-Pat and Kirtland, or to Fort Worth. Back and forth, loaded up, with very…
  • p. 174 …Then it said: "After Marcel had gone to Fort Worth and came back Marcel challenged the…
  • p. 176 …O.K."Marcel would take some ofthe sample to Fort Worth to show Ramey. In the…
  • p. 179 normal course of his duty was sent to Washington not 8th Air Force in Fort Worth…
  • p. 254 …But the Roswell morning paper clearly showed that there was a knowledgeable person in Fort Worth…
  • p. 266 …Headquarters by a news photographer of the Fort Worth Star Telegram. It's four pictures that…
  • p. 309 …I was the only weather forecaster on duty in the Fort Worth base weather and flight…
  • p. 318 …flown to Eighth Air Force Headquarters at Fort Worth AAF, TX, for his personal inspection. Upon…
  • p. 326 …Before the announcement was made, the "disc" was flown to Fort Worth AAF, at the direction…
  • p. 327 …giant thermos jug" was allegedly transported from Fort Worth AAF to Wright Field. 38 This description…
  • p. 329 designs on it."41 Furthermore, the Fort Worth Army Airfield Weather Officer, Irving Newton, who was…
  • p. 333 Fort Worth Star-Telegram Photographs of Balloon Debris July 9, 1947 1
  • p. 640 …Similarly, the Fort Worth Sub-Committee established a procedure for flights made within the Fort V1orth…
  • p. 707 …Air Coordinating Committee, Fort Worth Regional Airspace Subcommittee. Subject: Obstructions to ·air navigation ••••.•••••••••••••••••••••••••• 43 Memorandum from…
  • p. 713 …Secretary a SUBJECT AIR COORDINATING COMMITTEE FORT WORTH REGIONAL AIRSPACE SUBCOMMITTEE P. O. BOX 1689 FORT…
  • p. 715 …BOX 1689 FORT WORm 1_ mxAS September 2, 1947 C1-tairman, Ft. Worth Regional Airspace Subcommittee…
  • p. 812 …Arrived in Fort Worth about 9 EDST. Off again to Big Springs, Texas, where forced to…
The method used heretofore is variation of balloon
load through changes in the amount of ballast used.
However. there are upper and lower limits on the
amount of ballast that can be used. due to 'the
strength limitations of the fabric. Also. the "height
sensitivity"; that is. the ratio of change in altitude
to Change in load. is not great enough to provide suit-
able choice of heights.
B. Another attack is to effect a change of volume by
making openings below the equator of the balloon.
The volume of gas contained in the balloon envelope
is then obviously limited.
c. If this method of height control proves to be un-
satisfactory. still other control mechanisms will be
sought.
The three objectives. with their indicated subdivisions. will be
pursued to better effect control of the balloon altitude. A parallel
pursuit will be the investigation of other balloon types and sizes. in
addition to the satisfactory General Mills Polyethylene models now in
use. Thus. plans for the future include both the development of control
devices currently under test and also a.broad. general study of 'the basic
components of constant-level balloon trains from the theoretical as well
as the operational viewpoint.
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