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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…
26. Photographs, Project MOGUL Balloon Trains

27. Table No. 7, Summary of NYU Constant-Level Balloon Flights, November 20, 1946-July 5, 1947

28. Museums Contacted

29. Blueprint, Corner Reflector, ML-307C/AP Assembly

30. Statement, Irving Newton, July 21,1994

31. Photographs, ML-307C/AP Device with Vintage Neoprene Balloons and Debris

## 32. Synopsis of Balloon Research Findings, with Memorandum for SAF/AAZ, Att: Colonel Richard L. Weaver, by James McAndrew, 1st Lt, USAFR

Attachments to the McAndrew Synopsis:

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

2. Organizational Chart, Watson Laboratories, January 20, 1947

3. Drawing, NYU Cluster Flight No. 2

4. Illustrations, AN/CRT-1 Sonabuoy

5. Blueprint, Corner Reflector, ML-307C/AP Assembly

6. Table No. 7, Summary of NYU Constant-Level Balloon Flights, November 20, 1946-September 9, 1947

7. Map of New Mexico

8. Illustration, Weather Balloon and Corner Reflector

9. Letter, Brig Gen E. O'Donnell to Commanding General AAF, July 8, 1946

10. Hieroglyphic Drawing, Charles B. Moore, August 28, 1992

11. Alamogordo News, "Fantasy of 'Flying Disc' Is Exlained Here: News Men Watch Army Radar Crew Launch 'Disc'," July 10, 1947

Appendices to the McAndrew Synopsis:

1. Roswell Daily Record, July 9, 1947

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

3. Statement, Irving Newton, July 21, 1994

4. Letter, Lt Col Edward A. Doty to Mr David Bushnell, March 3, 1959

5. Letter, Brig Gen E. O'Donnell to Commanding General AAF, July 8, 1946

6. Report, Maurice Ewing for General Carl Spaatz, "Long Range Sound Transmission in the Atmosphere," n.d.

7. Report, HQ Fitzwilliam Fwd, "Sonic Balloon Test Kwajalein," May 17, 1948

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