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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. 23 …Air Force Historical Research Agency (AFHRA), Maxwell Air Force Base (AFB), AL, the Air Force Safety…
  • p. 28 …What Air Force researchers did do, however, was to search for records still under Air Force…
  • p. 47 …Much of the speculation stems from claims by William Haut, a former Air Force public affairs…
  • p. 65 …On orders from the base commander, Col. William Blanchard, the Public Information Officer, Walter G. Haut…
  • p. 135 …That actually came, I think, in September when the Air Force first stated. You were one…
  • p. 277 …Commander, Eighth Air Force. General Ramey personally inspected the "disc," became skeptical, and summoned the base
With light weight payloads, balloon systems of this type can be launched by two or three experienced balloon men. The launching is carried out in a manner similar to that explained in Section II, Operations, of "Technical Report 93.02(1)" in that the balloon is inflated in the lee side of a building or wind screen, (or in an aircraft hangar if one is available, or in the open when winds are light) with the equipment train laid out downwind of the balloon. The amount of gas lift is equal to balloon weight plus approximately 10% to cause ascent at 800 to 1000ft. min. A picture of inflation of a 20 ft. diameter plastic balloon is shown as Fig. 11.

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