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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. 547 Flight 17a Released from Alamogordo, New :Mexioo, 1647 liST, September 9, 1947 Recovered at Croft, Kansas…
  • p. 743 …The balloon was ultimately recovered from Croft, Kansas, a distance of 530 miles from the release…
includes rate of ballast expenditure, diffusion, leaka~e, end stability of con-
trol.
By-product information of i:nportance to :neteorolo~y or balloon flying
techniques includes the following: Observation, measurement and theoretic,;tl
analysis of hi_;h altitude at;nosf h.:ric oscillations has been accoillplished.
These oscil.!.Co~.ti<ms are severaL ..J.libars in ararlitude (as indicated on balloon
ba~a~raph traces) and the ~eriod of vscill~tion v;ries bet~een 4 ana 10 minutes .
.:\.ir c1ass tra.jectorids l·r:..ve been ::le<...oured over ranges up tc. about 400 miles and
!.ave be-e1-, i:-.•Jicated b~1 thP. re~ove :-:r ~;· 3-!ar up to 2! 000 miles fro1n the launching
point. .r.dditi.Jna.l field test.= •.n< QL· .tl&S~ trajectories are now being .1118.de.
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11!Je'relopmtmt of i"•.)nSt.C!nt I..evel Bal2..con 11
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"Development cf Balioon Teicmeteri."lg S;Jstem 11

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