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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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359 x ~73.2 - 59.5 X 1013.3 • 2370 ft.3 (the mean molar volume
.;.;73.:2 1.20
at 15 km for Jan.l943 over Lakehurst,N.J.)
This volume data was computed for all lovels given. Data was
"borrowed" from ot.aer stations in tne same latitude to piece out the 20
km soundings as needed.
II. Lifts were computed for various molor volumes for balloons
between 7. 5 am 75 feet diameter in the following manner:
Given
purity of Hydrogen 99."7%
impurity as oxygen 0.3%
computed molecular wt. 2.11 #1 mol
Molecul~r weight of dry .9.ir as computed from date. re:Jorted at
10 km. in Ha.nibook of Chemistry am Physics •
.28.764 #1 mol
To find the lift of a 20'D balloon at an altitude where the
molar volume is 1000 ft.3:
Volume 20 ft.D Balloon = 4190 ft.3
Lift/BalloonBalloon Volume X(Difference in molecular wgts.of air#hgn
Molar Volume at a given altitude
or
Total Lift of gas in #/Balloon= ft. 3/Balloon X (
ft.3/mol
for the 40 foot diameter balloon:
#/mol)
Lift = 419° (.28.76 - 2 •11) = 111.7.# lift from a 20 foot diameter
1000 sphere of hydrogen at an altitude
where the molar volume is 1000 ft.3.
The lifts were plotted against molar volume for each size
balloon. The .altitudes corresponding to various molar volumes for
Lakehurst am Albuquerque in January and in August 1943 as computed
above were plotted on t)e left margin of the chart.
The family of curves was plotted on log ?aper and is included
in the append~{ with the basic sounding data.
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