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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. 129 …6099 2 HQ AMC WRIGHT PAT 342-seA-6191 CAMBRIDGE LABS 342-A~ AMC HQ WRIGHT…
  • p. 228 …overhead and followed the balloons out to sea. I have no idea about the results that…
  • p. 235 …the regular 334 that we had at sea level. From that they could deduce the temperature…
  • p. 279 …actually located on the jurisdictional lines between Sea Girt and Springlake, New Jersey. It was an…
  • p. 280 …The Sea Girt Inn? A: Exactly. That's where John had his office, and I was…
  • p. 400 …alone 1a about 24,000.m1lea at sea level, aDd about '500 allea at 45,000…
  • p. 407 …five (25) feet at their ls.rgest sea-level diameter. The sonic unit was a combination…
  • p. 466 …hour when one-fifth inf~ated at sea level). One other type of balloon which has…
  • p. 490 …Let us, then, compare the rate of leakage at any given altitude with leakage at sea…
  • p. 492 …The leakage at any altitude may be expressed as a function of leakage at sea level…
  • p. 493 Comparing rete of leakage at 40,000 feet with leakage at sea level: ~ 188 .u§. - 0…
  • p. 495 …It a 20-foot diameter balloon~ full were tested at 10 sea level and found to…
  • p. 496 …At sea level this is equivalent to 5.32 ~r. for a 20-foot diameter balloon…
  • p. 502 …Using the rules of subsonic aerodynamics, Picard suggests that air at sea level escaping at 1333…
  • p. 503 …sea level (psi) escape velocity of air to produce back pressure of 1 atmosphere at sea…
  • p. 520 …to about 20 millibars and increased to sea-level pressure at different temperatures. The most comprehensive…
  • p. 654 …The height above mean sea level as determined fram pressure measurements used in this work with…
  • p. 686 …to a thtmble a.nd attached to re1n forced pCltches at alterna.te .sea.m.s…
  • p. 688 …lQr9e Ba.lloo n ~hould trQin de .sea nd to 101000'. 6 each.-Gene ral M1lls…
  • p. 736 …point at which the radiosonde reaches the sea surface. 2. Earlier attempts There have been numerous…
  • p. 737 …The balloons floated between the surface and 30,000 ft above sea level; those which reached…
  • p. 801 …Vet Gifford ;.;ho has 0 0' sea rescue boat this project is planning to use. Stayed…
  • p. 816 …Worzel working on gravity at sea. Saw Geo Woollard and the Ryders. Woollard after Guggenheim fellowship…
  • p. 887 …the launching site is markedly different from sea level, a shift in this curve is needed…
  • p. 925 …balloon at all times with respect to sea level. On this curve also it is customary…
  • p. 933 …The height above ~ean sea level as determined from pressure measurements used in this work with…
Meeting No. 30
TimrJ:
Place a
Members Present:
Secretary a
SUBJECT
AIR COORDINATING COMMITTEE
FORT WORTH REGIONAL AIRSPACE SUBCOMMITTEE
P. O. BOX 1689
FORT WORTH 1, TEXAS
August 21, 1947
August 21, 1947 - 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Regional Office, CAA, Ft. Worth, Texas
L. c. Elliott, Chairman
Lt. Col. Hall F. Smith, ~ar Dept. Member
Major Williams, War Dept. Alternate .Member
Perry Hodgden, CAB Member
CCli!UI8nder Jsnes Douglas A.rbes, Navy Dept. )(enber
Tracy Walsh, J,.TA Coordinator
Paul H. Boatman
EXTRACT ·copy
PAGE NmtmER
III. OBSTRUCTIONS TO AIR NAVIGATION
A. WHITE SANDS, NEW MEXICO, PROV»>G GROUND -NEW YORK UNIVERSITY - RELEASE
OF FREE BALLOONS- CASE #111••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 3
PROBLEM
1. 7he Secretary of the SUbcommittee presented a request received from the
New Yark University through the .Uepartment of Commerce Member for approval of re-
leases of free balloons at the White Sands Proving Ground in Phase II operation
as outlined in New York Subcommittee Meeting No. 12, dated March 20, 1947.
DISCUSSION
2. It as first thought that balloons would ascend and desc.end wi1hin the
confines of the White Sands presently assigned danger area and that no further
authorization would be required; however the Subcommittee was advised by the
Universit,y that balloons have been descending outside of the area in the vicinity
of Roswell, New Mexico. It, therefore, appeared that there was a certain amount
of hazard to aircraft encountered in the descent of this equipment.
3. The Subcommittee did not have full inf' ormation on the nUll!Der of releases
anticipated and other pertinent details; however it appeared the chances of collision
of aircraft with this equipment was very remote and due to the fact prevailing winds
in this area would ordinarily carry the equipment eastward, which would tend to carry
it away from heavy travelled already established civil airways, that this activity
might not be too objectionable.
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