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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.

  • 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…
Joe Johnston, the electrical engineer at Columbia, whose name will come up as the person who did these.

Q: But you think in these early service flights you did have sonobouys?

A: Initially we had sonobouy, according to Crary. We initially were flying radar targets on the balloons only. Then by about Flight 5, we'd had sufficient lack of results that we began putting radiosondes on.

(Pause)

Q: The end report we're going to write is going to be based on official records, and essentially, transcripts such as this. So there will be a lot of things, Cavitt's tape, the transcript will not be part of that. This statement will be.

A: If you remember, there's a note in there from Dave Atlas to Colonel Duffy, a copy of a letter. Dave mentioned somewhere or another that Colonel Duffy took him down in the basement and Colonel Duffy had trunkfulls of documents that were unclassified. I wonder if it would be possible for you to contact Mrs. Duffy...

Q: I was wondering about what she might have.

A: She may have a great deal. Maybe in the Duffy file I have the address and phone number. I think it's Barrington, Rhode Island.

(Looking for name and phone number)

A: Here's a letter Todd got having to do with chasing down modern targets, the people who now make targets, who know nothing about this earlier affair.

Q: We talked with the Signal Corps up at Fort Monmouth and that's where we got the copy of the engineering drawing, which is a copy for you. They said these targets are no longer made. They have a national stock number and they can be made, but they would have to go out and write a new contract for them.

A: This is the C Model. It doesn't show the reinforcements.

Q: The young lady I talked with at Fort Monmouth indicated this drawing pre-dated that time frame. June of '44.

A: I'll be darned.

Q: I found that unusual when she said that was June of '44, and I didn't pick up on the designation being printed on the

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