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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. 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…
s4cond cluster flight, provision was also made to release balloons if the
train rose above 40,000 ft. The flying line in the second train was
approximately 500 ft. long.
This cluster flight is tedious to prepare and difficult to
launch, and is a greater hazard to aircraft than the plastic balloons
will be because of the great length of the cluster train.
III e) Apparatus and Equipment.
A detailed explanation is not given on the equipment of the
Cluster Flight. However, a layout sketch is enclosed in the appendix.
An important piece of new apparatus for this project is the ballast
valve or dribbler, a photograph aDd drawings of which appears in the
appemix. It consists of a special diaphragm which operates a needle
valve. Normally the valve is closed as the diaphragm·is open to the air
before the balloon reaches the desired altituie. This allows the
pressure inside the diaphragm to be the same as the outside pressure.
The diaphragm is sealed electrically qy the baroswitch of the flight
radiosome \-Then the balloon train passes a predetermined altitude.
~enever the balloon train cescends below this preset altitude, the
increase of pressure on the sealed diaphragm causes the needle valve to
be opened. The greater the excess in pressure on the diaphragm the more
ballast there is releaseo through the valve. Thus a pro9ortional restoring
force is applied to the train. The ballast that is to be used is a
petroleum cut boiling from 300° to 4000F wi t!l a density of a. bout • 78 and
a minimum change of viscosity with temperature. Two different type
Uuid~ that may reet this specification are the Army type compass fluid
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