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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. 12 …Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July 9, 1947 17. Satement, Lt. Col. Sheridan…
  • p. 13 …Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July 9, 1947 2. Organizational Chart, Watson Laboratories…
  • p. 30 …These locations include Fort Worth, Texas, the home of the Eighth Air Force Headquarters; possibly Sandia…
  • p. 34 …DC; Federal Records Center, Ft Worth, TX; the INSCOM Archives, Fort Meade, MD; National Air and…
  • p. 38 …in the famous photos (Atch 16) in Fort Worth was that of a radar target normally…
  • p. 39 …were told was a flying saucer to Fort Worth. The people on board included ... and Maj…
  • p. 40 …Newton was a weather officer assigned to Fort Worth, who was on duty when the Roswell…
  • p. 45 …photographs taken at the time by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, that depicted Ramey and Marcel…
  • p. 46 …the wreckage prior to its getting to Fort Worth. This organization reported on July 20, 1994…
  • p. 51 …After the autopsies, conspiracy theorists said the bodies were flown to Fort Worth and then to…
  • p. 75 …Some of the debris was flown to Fort Worth, ..as where the Commander of the Eighth…
  • p. 101 …Center (WNRq or the Southwest Regional Depository (Fort Worth, Texas). Recommendations Because the records management policy…
  • p. 151 16 Fort Worth Star-Telegram Photographs of Balloon Debris July 9, 1947
  • p. 159 …taken to Eighth AU- Force Headquarters in Fort Worth where it was subsequently identified as a…
  • p. 167 …Marcel took it to Fort Worth. Yeah that's the ... RW: ·Yeah. That doesn't look…
  • p. 168 …into Wright-Pat and Kirtland, or to Fort Worth. Back and forth, loaded up, with very…
  • p. 174 …Then it said: "After Marcel had gone to Fort Worth and came back Marcel challenged the…
  • p. 176 …O.K."Marcel would take some ofthe sample to Fort Worth to show Ramey. In the…
  • p. 179 normal course of his duty was sent to Washington not 8th Air Force in Fort Worth…
  • p. 254 …But the Roswell morning paper clearly showed that there was a knowledgeable person in Fort Worth…
  • p. 266 …Headquarters by a news photographer of the Fort Worth Star Telegram. It's four pictures that…
  • p. 309 …I was the only weather forecaster on duty in the Fort Worth base weather and flight…
  • p. 318 …flown to Eighth Air Force Headquarters at Fort Worth AAF, TX, for his personal inspection. Upon…
  • p. 326 …Before the announcement was made, the "disc" was flown to Fort Worth AAF, at the direction…
  • p. 327 …giant thermos jug" was allegedly transported from Fort Worth AAF to Wright Field. 38 This description…
  • p. 329 designs on it."41 Furthermore, the Fort Worth Army Airfield Weather Officer, Irving Newton, who was…
  • p. 333 Fort Worth Star-Telegram Photographs of Balloon Debris July 9, 1947 1
  • p. 640 …Similarly, the Fort Worth Sub-Committee established a procedure for flights made within the Fort V1orth…
  • p. 707 …Air Coordinating Committee, Fort Worth Regional Airspace Subcommittee. Subject: Obstructions to ·air navigation ••••.•••••••••••••••••••••••••• 43 Memorandum from…
  • p. 713 …Secretary a SUBJECT AIR COORDINATING COMMITTEE FORT WORTH REGIONAL AIRSPACE SUBCOMMITTEE P. O. BOX 1689 FORT…
  • p. 715 …BOX 1689 FORT WORm 1_ mxAS September 2, 1947 C1-tairman, Ft. Worth Regional Airspace Subcommittee…
  • p. 812 …Arrived in Fort Worth about 9 EDST. Off again to Big Springs, Texas, where forced to…
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Figure Number Page Number
1. General Mills 20-foot balloon ••••••••••••• • .g
2. Balloon appendix stiffened with cardboard battens •••• 11
3. Detail drawing for balloon battens •••••••••••• 12
4. Balloon appendix with spring bow stiffener •••••••• 13
5. Carrick bend knot • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 15
6. Detail drawin~ of fixed rate ballast assembly •••••• 17
7. Detail drawing of orifice assembly ••••••••••• 18
8. Detail drawing of filter. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 19
9. Ballast control circuit • • • • • • ••••••••••• 21
10. Ballast reservoir assembly • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• 22
11. Detail drawing of flie;ht termination rip rigging • • • • 23
12. Detail drawing of flirht termination switch ••••••• 24
13 • Detail drawing of line cutter cannon • • • • • • • • • • 25
14, Schematic drawing of line cutter cannon • • • • • • • • • 26
15 , Detail drawing of banner • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 28
16 • Typical service flight train (complete) • • • • • • • •• 30
17e Typical service flight train (simple) • • • ••••• 31
18. Typical research flight train • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 32
19. Sample calibration curve for helium gage •••••••• 34
20. Sample warning and reward tngs • • • • • ••• 37
21. Sample reward notice and questionnaire. • • • • • • ••• 38
22. Detail drawing of elliptical shot bag •••••••••• 40
23, Detail drawing of sand and shot bag ••••••••••• 41
24 • Launching platform with e.rms open • • • • • • • • • • • • 42
25 • Launching platform with balloon fixed in place. • • • • • 43
26 • Five tank helium manifold. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 45
27 • Detai 1 drawing of diffuser. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 46
28 • Detail drawing of Y-shaped wind screen. • • • • • • • 48
29 • Plan view of balloon launching layout • • • • • • • • •• 49
30 • Balloon shapes during launching ••••••••••••• 50
31• Olland cycle pressure modulator ••••••••••••• 55
32 • Sample record of Olland cycle pressure modulator signal • 58
33 • Olland cycle test oscillator circuit ••••••••••• 59
34. Calibration curve for 011e.nd cycle pressure modulator •• 60
35 • Lange baroe;raph-thermograph • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 65
36 • Sample barograph record • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 67
37 • Correction curve for Lange barograph. • • • • • • • • • • 70
38• Sample height-time curve. • • • ••••••••••• 72
39 • Sample trajectory • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 73
40 • General Mills 7-foot balloon • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 74
41• General !-:!i1ls 70-foot balloon being inflated ••••••• 76.
42 • General Mi11s 70-foot balloon being launched ••••••• 77
43 • Detail drawing of helium heater • • • • • • • • • • • • • 78
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