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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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Q: W.W. Brazel mentions eyelets which appear in the reflectors. There's also, on the polyethylene balloons, the shroud however you had it hooked on there. There's eyelets around the base. There was a ring at the neck of the balloon and then there were attach points to that ring, were there not? A: But there were no eyelets. Q: I believe there were. I've reviewed the New York University documents and there's a very clear depiction in one of them of eyelets. A: Okay, I was thinking of the later... Here are the NYU reports, the originals of them. Q: In one of the configurations they clearly show eyelets in the drawing. Q: Going back to Brazel, you state that you think it could not be one of the polyethylene balloons. He indicates in this newspaper article that he actually found the debris in mid-June, however it didn't subsequently come out until July. A: You're right. That is in one of the polyethylene balloons, you're correct. I fall back on my plea that my memory isn't... Q: It comes into depending on what Brazel was speaking about. A: There are clearly eyelets here. In fact there's a little swivel. He talks about the smoky gray rubber... Q: Which these samples here, as you say, if they'd only been out for a short time, a matter of days, smoky gray, that's a very good description of what they looked like. A: And when you first retrieve it has a bad odor. And people talked about there being a burned odor. We need to talk about these neoprene balloons because they came in different... There were two manufacturers -- one, Dewey & Olney in Cambridge manufactured with a dip process and they had very much the appearance, if you will, of a condom. They were an ivory colored jell. The Kaysam company in Patterson made a cast neoprene emulsion into a mold, and then they inflated the mold. They had to put a lot of plasticizers so they could take this wet jell and inflate it and make it into a meteorologic balloon. This is a Kaysam balloon here, which I think is not a good candidate.
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