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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. 1 THE ROSWELL REPORT Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert Headquarters United States Air Force…
  • p. 7 Clinical Investigations and Life Sciences Division, Headquarters Air Force Medical Operating Agency, Bolling AFB, DC; John…
  • p. 28 …the disc had been "flown to higher headquarters." That same story also reported that a Roswell…
  • p. 30 …These locations include Fort Worth, Texas, the home of the Eighth Air Force Headquarters; possibly Sandia…
  • p. 71 DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE MEMORANDUM FOR FROM: AFiiN SUBJECT: References…
  • p. 75 …DuBose says officials at the Headquarters of the Eighth Air Force were directed to tell the…
  • p. 81 DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WASHINGTON DC MEMORANDUM FOR SAF/AAZ…
  • p. 89 DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE 09 Mar94 MEMORANDUMFORSAF/AAZ ATIENTION: Lt…
  • p. 107 …Colonel Loberg, Headquarters, Eighth Air Force, arrived this date to coordinate with S-3 and check…
  • p. 108 …Boatright, Headquarters, Eighth Air Force, arrived to coordinate with Statistical Control on cost analysis. 16 July…
  • p. 133 HEADQUARTERS, ARMY AIR FORCES WASHINGTON SUBJECT: Iuuance o! Ordera !01 Couaa8.1ng General .A.1r Materiel…
  • p. 144 …we haven't s~uadron or grou~ headquarters should take their people away. 1:55 P…
  • p. 159 …I did not make a report of this incident to my headquarters since I felt that…
  • p. 165 …700 CIC was the CIC Headquarters.
  • p. 166 …700 CIC was the Headquarters? SC: Yes, I don't think I even made a report…
  • p. 167 …I think this was taken at the Headquarters at Carswell. RW: Yeah, that's right. That…
  • p. 168 …I took it to 8th Air Force Headquarters, General Ramey was excited; they were going to…
  • p. 177 …I don't even want 700 CIC Headquarters to know we wasted our time on it…
  • p. 178 …So that, to me, implies that this would have been your CIC Headquarters also sent some…
  • p. 227 …I was assigned, believe it or not, to Headquarters, Air Force .•• I still have the Headquarters…
  • p. 265 …on the basis of orders out of Headquarters Army Air Force. Q: While you were operating…
  • p. 266 …These are the pictures taken in General Ramey's office, 8th Air Force Headquarters by a…
  • p. 282 …Then after I left the headquarters of ARDC in Baltimore, I spent four years at the…
  • p. 318 …debris be flown to Eighth Air Force Headquarters at Fort Worth AAF, TX, for his personal…
  • p. 327 …Andrews AAF was headquarters of the Army Air Forces Weather Service. It is also interesting to…
  • p. 407 HEADQUARTERS FITZWILLIAM FORWARD c/o Commander, Task Group 7.2 APO 187, c/o Postmaster San…
  • p. 409 …arrival of the explo- sion sound wave. Headquarters FITZ\nlliArA FCRI1ARD furnished ARPACAS 3-1 and…
  • p. 964 …Morgan, from Headquarters Eighth Air Force, ;'las here to confer with the Engineering Officer, Captain ?cterson…
  • p. 984 …Marcellus Duffy eliminated it and several others from the project when Headquarters U.S. Army Air…
altitude as it has no further buoyancy. This altitucie stability
exists only as long as the balloon is in the fully inflated or
"taut" state. Once the balloon sta.rtE descending (due to loss
of hydrot;en by diffusion or by other loss) ii:i becomes flabby and
is no longer ~table. It will continue descerrling until corrective
action is taken or until it reaches the earth.
The altitude control is to be used is the ballast valve. When
correctly set it will determine the lower limit of .the be.lloon' s oscill~tion
as it would release a free flowing liquid ballast from a reservoir whenever
the balloon descends a short distance below a preset altitude.
To test this tentative solution to the basic problem, inter-
mediate sizes of balloon made of suitable fabric or films c.re needed in
addition to the altitude controls.
Balloons
Balloon manufacturers and fabricators of plastic films were
contacted to locate a suitable balloon material. The following materials
were suggested:
Material
Plastic Film
Polyethylene
Saran
Advantages
Good low temperature
properties (Gen.l{ills
desires to fabricate
Picard's balloons
from this).
Transparent, low
permeability, high
tensile strength.
Disadvantages
Low tensile strength,
Milky-translucent,
Medium permeability.
Tears easily, fair
low temperature pro-
perties (?),weak at
seams if heat sealed.
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Disposition
10 ea. 15 ft.
balloons being
fabricated from
it.
5 large ~lloons
being fabricated.

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