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The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert

USAF / The Black Vault · 1995 · 882 pages · text by OCR

The Roswell Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert was published by Headquarters United States Air Force in 1995. The Black Vault distributes this copy. It reproduces the report by Col. Richard L. Weaver and the synopsis by 1st Lt. James McAndrew, both written after a General Accounting Office inquiry requested by Representative Steven Schiff. The Air Force search found no evidence of an extraterrestrial craft or crew. It concluded that the Roswell debris most likely came from NYU Flight No. 4, a Project MOGUL balloon train.

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  • p. 193 …overhead and followed the balloons out to sea. I have no idea about the results that…
  • p. 200 …the regular 334 that we had at sea level. From that they could deduce the temperature…
  • p. 243 …actually located on the jurisdictional lines between Sea Girt and Springlake, New Jersey. It was an…
  • p. 244 …The Sea Girt Inn? A: Exactly. That's where John had his office, and I was…
  • p. 320 …alone is about 24,000 miles at sea level, and about 4500 miles at 45,000…
  • p. 325 …twenty-five (25) feet at their largest sea-level diameter. The sonic unit was a combination…
  • p. 378 …per hour when one-fifth inflated at sea level). One other type of balloon which has…
  • p. 402 …Let us, then, compare the rate of leakage at any given altitude with leakage at sea…
  • p. 404 …The leakage at any altitude may be expressed as a function of leakage at sea level…
  • p. 405 Comparing rate of leakage at 40,000 feet with leakage at sea level: $$ \frac {L _ {4…
  • p. 407 …If a 20-foot diameter balloon $ \frac{1}{1 0} $ full were tested at sea level…
  • p. 408 …At sea level this is equivalent to 5.32 gm/hr. for a 20-foot diameter…
  • p. 414 …Using the rules of subsonic aerodynamics, Picard suggests that air at sea level escaping at 1333…
  • p. 415 …air at sea level (lb./ft. $ ^{3} $ ) 14.7 = pressure of air at sea level (psi…
  • p. 432 …to about 20 millibars and increased to sea-level pressure at different temperatures. The most comprehensive…
  • p. 563 …The height above mean sea level as determined from pressure measurements used in this work with…
  • p. 644 …point at which the radiosonde reaches the sea surface. ## 2. Earlier attempts There have been numerous…
  • p. 645 …The balloons floated between the surface and 30,000 ft above sea level; those which reached…
  • p. 704 …Met Gifford who has 90' sea rescue boat this project is planning to use. Stayed at…
  • p. 719 …Worzel working on gravity at sea. Saw Geo Woollard and the Ryders. Woollard after Guggenheim fellowship…
  • p. 779 …the launching site is markedly different from sea level, a shift in this curve is needed…
  • p. 817 …balloon at all times with respect to sea level. On this curve also it is customary…
  • p. 825 …The height above mean sea level as determined from pressure measurements used in this work with…
7. Memo, Brig Gen James L. Cole, Jr., AF/SE, for SAF/AAZ, subj: GAO Review on Records Management Procedures with Weather Balloons, Unidentified Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents . . . , March 14, 1994

8. Memo, Col Michael W. Schoenfeld, SAF/AQL, for SAF/AA, subj: GAO Review on Records Management Procedures Dealing with Weather Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents . . . , March 22, 1994

9. Memo, Col Steve O. Ouzts, AF/XOWP, for SAF/AAZ, subj: GAO Review on Records Management Procedures Dealing with Weather Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents . . . , March 9, 1994

10. Memo, Grace T. Rowe, SAF/AAIQ, for SAF/AAI, SAF/AAZ, subj: GAO Review of Records Management Procedures Dealing with Weather Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents . . . , March 10, 1994

11. Memo with Attachment, Richard S. Rauschkolb, AFHRA/CC, for AF/HO, SAF/AAZ, subj: GAO Review on Records Management Procedures Dealing with Weather Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents . . . , March 8, 1994

12. Memo, with Attachments, Edward C. Mishler, HQ AFOSI/HO, for SAF/AAZ subj: GAO Review on Records Management Procedures . . ., May 11, 1994

13. Records Searched

14. Letter, Lt Col Thomas Badger, Jr., HQ/AAF, to Commanding General, AMC, subj: Issuance of Orders, June 5, 1947

15. Appointment Book and Diary, Lt Gen Hoyt S. Vandenberg, July 7-9, [1947], and July 5-9, 1947

16. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, [July 9, 1947]

17. Statement, Lt. Col. Sheridan D. Cavitt, USAF (Ret), May 24, 1994

18. Interview, Col Richard L. Weaver with Lt Col Sheridan D. Cavitt, USAF (Ret), [May 24, 1994]

19. Letters, Brig Gen E. O'Donnell to Commanding General AAF, July 8, 1946; Lt Col W.H. Congdon and Col D.P. Graul to Commanding General AMC, September 9, 1947; and Brig Gen Tom C. Rives to Commanding General AAF, September 10, 1947

20. Statement, Athelstan F. Spilhaus, June 3, 1994

21. Statement, Charles B. Moore, June 8, 1994, and Hieroglyphic and Balloon Train Drawings, August 28, 1992

22. Statement, Albert C. Trakowski, June 29, 1994

23. Interview, Col Jeffrey Butler and 1st Lt James McAndrew with Professor Charles B. Moore, June 8, 1994

24. Interview, [Col Jeffrey Butler and 1st Lt James McAndrew with] Col Albert C. Trakowski, USAF (Ret), June 29, 1994

25. Drawing, NYU Cluster Flight No. 2

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