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The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert

USAF / The Black Vault · 1995 · 882 pages · text by GLM-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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must be compensated for by decreasing the load on the system to prevent descent to the ground.

This decrease of load is carried out by dropping liquid ballast as demanded by a pressure activated ballast control switch. This switch completes a circuit through a relay operated ballast valve whenever the balloon system descends to a region of pressure greater than that of its selected floating altitude. Ballast is thus dropped and the system returned to floating altitude.

On flights made on another project since the termination of the development phase of this project, the ballast control system was standardized to include a pressure displacement switch and an electrically operated ballast valve. The displacement switch (Fig.1) consists of a standard temperature compensated aneroid cell and pen arm from a radiosonde modulator

Fig. 1

Pressure Displacement Switch for Ballast Control

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