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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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June 4th, "Out to Tulerosa Range and fired charges between 0-0 and 0-6" something. "No balloon flight again on account of clouds. Flew regular sonobuoy mike with cluster balloons and had good luck with receiver on ground but poor on plane." I think that's Flight 4 right there. Q: So that's June 4th. A: As to that flight made by Mirs and Hackman earlier, we have no record of it here in the NYU summary. Q: If he flew that on June 4th and it carried the microphones, the radar reflectors, that would have been with a neoprene type balloon. A: There were no plastic balloons delivered until the 28th or 29th of June that year. So everything as evidenced on the Helgeland flight that we made and the other flight, they were all meteorological balloons prior to late June. Q: That would have also had the B Model reflector, this type of reflector, but the B Model? A: My memory is that Jim Peoples, because we were being sent down by B-17 and by air, didn't let us take the radiosonde receiving equipment which at that time was very heavy. It was like a 500 pound rack with a receiver, frequency meter, recorder, etc., and we weren't allowed to use that. Instead, the idea was that Peoples would provide tracking on the balloons with radar targets and so on. So this is where I think the radar targets come in. If you look in these reports you'll find here statements, radiosonde reception, and you'll see 60 percent with recorder, 50 percent without recorder, 100 percent without recorder for June 5th. A hundred percent without recorder. So I think we tried the radar targets, as I remember, our contact who was a Captain Larry Dyvad found that they weren't able to track our flights at all. They had a radar that was entirely aimed at looking at the missiles. To look at slow moving balloons with poor signal return was difficult for them. So we started off with making single target flights. I think we went to multiple target flights, and still didn't have any success, so I began putting radiosondes and then just audibly, as the tones would change, I would log it on a piece of paper. I'd count the pressure... Are you familiar with radiosondes? Q: Somewhat. A: The commutator with the pressure contacts, etc. I would count contacts and record it and you'll see in some of these flight reports, there's two different interpretations possible, depending on what the contact sequence was. An ordinary radiosonde is very good for something that's going one way. But for something that's going to go up and float, you can
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