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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. 12 …Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July 9, 1947 17. Statement, Lt. Col. Sheridan…
  • p. 13 …Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July 9, 1947 2. Organizational Chart, Watson Laboratories…
  • p. 27 …These locations include Fort Worth, Texas, the home of the Eighth Air Force Headquarters; possibly Sandia…
  • p. 31 …DC; Federal Records Center, Ft Worth, TX; the INSCOM Archives, Fort Meade, MD; National Air and…
  • p. 35 …in the famous photos (Atch 16) in Fort Worth was that of a radar target normally…
  • p. 36 …were told was a flying saucer to Fort Worth. The people on board included...and Maj…
  • p. 37 …Newton was a weather officer assigned to Fort Worth, who was on duty when the Roswell…
  • p. 42 …photographs taken at the time by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, that depicted Ramey and Marcel…
  • p. 43 …the wreckage prior to its getting to Fort Worth. This organization reported on July 20, 1994…
  • p. 47 …After the autopsies, conspiracy theorists said the bodies were flown to Fort Worth and then to…
  • p. 65 …to Fort Worth. "Flying disc." Some of the debris was flown to Fort Worth. as where…
  • p. 84 …Center (WNRC) or the Southwest Regional Depository (Fort Worth, Texas). ## Recommendations Because the records management policy…
  • p. 131 …taken to Eighth Air Force Headquarters in Fort Worth where it was subsequently identified as a…
  • p. 138 …And I obviously...Marcel took it to Fort Worth. Yeah that's the... RW: Yeah. That…
  • p. 139 …into Wright-Pat and Kirtland, or to Fort Worth. Back and forth, loaded up, with very…
  • p. 145 …Then it said: "After Marcel had gone to Fort Worth and came back Marcel challenged the…
  • p. 147 …O.K."Marcel would take some of the sample to Fort Worth to show Ramey. In…
  • p. 150 normal course of his duty was sent to Washington not 8th Air Force in Fort Worth…
  • p. 219 …But the Roswell morning paper clearly showed that there was a knowledgeable person in Fort Worth…
  • p. 231 …Headquarters by a news photographer of the Fort Worth Star Telegram. It's four pictures that…
  • p. 263 …I was the only weather forecaster on duty in the Fort Worth base weather and flight…
  • p. 269 …flown to Eighth Air Force Headquarters at Fort Worth AAF, TX, for his personal inspection. Upon…
  • p. 277 …Before the announcement was made, the "disc" was flown to Fort Worth AAF, at the direction…
  • p. 278 …giant thermos jug" was allegedly transported from Fort Worth AAF to Wright Field. $ ^{38} $ This description…
  • p. 280 designs on it." $ ^{41} $ Furthermore, the Fort Worth Army Airfield Weather Officer, Irving Newton, who was…
  • p. 283 1 Fort Worth Star-Telegram Photographs of Balloon Debris July 9, 1947
  • p. 549 …Similarly, the Fort Worth Sub-Committee established a procedure for flights made within the Fort Worth…
  • p. 616 …Air Coordinating Committee, Fort Worth Regional Airspace Subcommittee. Subject: Obstructions to air navigation...43 5. Memorandum…
  • p. 655 …5/15/47 Office of the Secretary Fort Worth Sub-Committee on Air Space Civil Aeronautics…
  • p. 715 …Arrived in Fort Worth about 9 EDST. Off again to Big Springs, Texas, where forced to…
SUMMARY OF NYU CONSTANT - LEVEL BALLoon FLIGHTS

FLIGHT MEMBER	DAYS AND HELIAGE TIME	LAUNCHING DATE	MEMBRANUM OF BALLOON	BALLOON MASS	MASSATURE OF EQUIPMENT	TOTAL WEIGHT ON BALLOON INCLUDING BALLAST	DESCRIPTION OF ALTITUDE CONTROL	BALLAST WEIGHT	PAN LIFT	BALLOON LIFT	RADIOGONDE RECEPTION %	TRACKING %	AIMGHT OBSERVATION %	FLIGHT DURATION	0.TIMEM CONSTANCY	MAXIMUM CONSTANT LEVELS HSL	NOVARRY LANDING SITE	CRITIQUE
A	20 Nov. 1946 1438 AST	NYU, N.Y.	2 - 350 gram meteorological	0.7 kg	72.2 mc Radiosonde	1.8 kg	None	0	Not known	Not known	80%	0%	0%	70 min.	4 min.1000'	Max.37000'Const.37000'	0%	Balloon balancing load. Free lift from 350 gram meteorological balloon. Successful cutting free of lifter balloon. Balloon did not level off.
B	16 Dec. 1946 1219 EST	MTU, N.Y.	2 - 350 gram meteorological	0.7 kg	72.2 mc Radiosonde	1.8 kg	None	0	Not known	Not known	80%	80%	Theodolite 50%	0%	31 min.	6 min.1070'	Max.15000'Const.15000'	0%	Balloon balancing load. Free lift from 350 gram meteorological balloon. Successful cutting free of lifter balloon. Balloon did not level off.
1	3 April 1947 1412 NST	Bethlehem Pennylvania	14 - 350 gram meteorological balloons. Long comic ray train	4.9 kg	72.2 mc Radiosonde Sand ballast	13.0 kg	3 cane of ballast to be dropped on descent	6.8 kg	Not known	Not known	60% with recorder 50% without recorder	Theodolite 66%	0%	115 min.	None	Max.46000'	0%	Failure due to poor rigging. poor launching technique. 2 lifter balloons. 12 main balloons. Train rose until some balloons burst then descended rapidly.
5	5 June 1947 1317 NST	Alamogordo New Mexico	29 - 350 gram meteorological balloons. Long comic ray train	10.2 kg	72.2 mc Radiosonde Data gear Sand ballast Liquid ballast	26.4 kg	Balloons to cut off above 40000'5 kg sand and 5 kg liquid to fall under 32000'	10.0 kg	9.9 kg	36.3 kg	100% with-out recorder	Theodolite 90%	90%B-17	348 min.	38 min.200'	Max.58000'Const.51000'	100%E. of Roswell N. H.	First successful flight carrying a heavy load. 3 lifter balloons, 26 main balloons.
6	7 June 1947 0509 NST	Alamogordo New Mexico	28 - 350 gram meteorological balloons. Long comic ray train	9.8 kg	74.5 mc Radiosonde. 69.3 mc transmitter. Ballast assembly	26.3 kg	Balloons to cut off above 40000'5 kg sand and 5 kg liquid to fall under 32000'	10 kg	1.9	30.2 kg	95% with-out recorder	Theodolite 90%	40%B-17	166 min.	None	Max.72000'	50%	Flight unsuccessful. Altitude control damaged on launching. 4 lifter balloons.
7	2 July 1947 0521 NST	Alamogordo New Mexico	20 - 350 gram meteorological balloons in 2 balloons clusters	7.0 kg	74.5 mc Radiosonde Ballast assembly	25.7 kg	4 over inflated balloons. 10 kg load shot to fall under 34000	10 kg	10.5 kg	36.2 kg	60% with-out recorder	Theodolite 100%	100%C-54	412 min.	147 min.15000'	Max.48500'Const.35000'	1% (1 balloon) neck	Best flight thought possible with flabby neoprene balloons. 4 lifter balloons. 16 main balloons.
8	3 July 1947 0303 NST	Alamogordo New Mexico	10 General Mills 7.00" polyethylene	4.6 kg	74.5 mc Radiosonde Ballast assembly	16.7 kg	Dribbler, composite fluid Fixed leak 160 gm/hr	3 kg	3.5 kg	20.2 kg	100% with recorder	Theodolite 33% Reder - last 55%	Last 15%C-45	195 min.	42 min.15000'	Max.18500'Const.18000'	0%	First non-extensible balloon flight. Due to lack of information on volume the altitude control was not actuated. However flight shows excellent stability of non-extensible balloons. Loss of lift due to balloon leaks 1000 gm/hr.
10	5 July 1947 0501 NST	Alamogordo New Mexico	1 H.A. Smith 15.000" polyethylene	14.2 kg	74.5 mc Radiosonde Ballast assembly	16.3 kg	Dribbler Compass fluid	3 kg	5.6 kg	21.9 kg	512 min. with recorder	Theodolite 82 min.	0%	Over 512 min.	130 min.300'282 min.42700'	Max.15200'Const.9000'	0%	Successful flight with altitude control working. Balloon reported over Albuquerque after 11 hours. Pebble Colorado after 26 hours. Fluctuations toward end of transmission bellows due to correction currents over desert. Balloon diffusion 10 gm/hr.

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