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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.
136 J 0 C lC'\ :\ L 0 F :\1 E T E 0 R 0 L 0 G Y VoLUME 5 temperature-compensate the diaphragm, the other to insulate and shield the valve from radiation. Using the ceiling-control system, flights of less than 24 hours not passing through sunset, may be held at ceiling by use of a nonextensible balloon and a simple fixed rate of leak to over-compensate diiTusion losses. The constancy of level will be better the lower the diffusion and the lower, therefore, the rate of rise of the ceiling. The automatic control is needed for flights lasting through a period in which day changes to night. 8. Preliminary trajectory analysis of two constant- level balloon flights, 7 July 19477 The most striking feature of the constant-level bal- loon flight (Flight 11, fig. 9) originating at Alamogordo Army _-\ir Base at 05hQ8m MST 8 on 7 July 1947 is the disagreement between the actual trajectory and the trajectory that might have been estimated from routine upper-wind reports. In this connection the observations from the \Veather Bureau stations at El Paso, RosweH, and .-\lbuquerque have been examined, since the path of the balloon was contained within the triangle formed 7 The authors are indebted to Prof. G. Emmons for contributing the major part of this section. 8 .Mountain Standard Time-105th meridian civil time. All further time references will be tacitly MST. I N Trajectory Scale 0 by these stations. Over El Paso, the wind direction at 16,000 ft (the approximate average altitude of the balloon during the greater part of the flight) was approximately SW at 03h, ESE at 09\ and ESE at 15h. Over Roswell, the apparent average wind direction at 16,000 ft was S during this period. Over Albuquerque, which was considerably farther from the path of the balloon than the other two stations, the wind direction at 16,000 ft was variable between WSW and SSE during the interval from OJh to 15h. In contrast with these observations is the fact that the constant-level balloon floated in an essentially steady \VSW current between 06h and 09h. In fig. 8 the wind observations at 16,000 ft have been plotted for El Paso, Roswell, and Albuquerque for 03h, 09h, and 15h. The wind directions at 14,000 ft, 16,000 ft, and 18,000 ft (only the intermediate level is shown in the figure) are all contained in the 150-degree sector between directions 90° and 240°; yet the mean motion of the balloon (approximately 265°) between 05h48m and 13hll m falls entirely outside this sector. An indication that this local WSW current was of small depth is given by a special upper-wind observa- tion made at White Sands at about 13h. The observa- tion in question recorded a wind direction of 250° at 16,000 ft, which is in excellent agreement with the first D Ros-11 . IRoswell AAF FIG. 9. Height-distance curve and planned trajectory of balloon Flight 11. Released at Alamogordo, New Mexico, 7 July 1947, at 0508 MST. (Numerals on curves indicate minutes after release.)
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