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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. 9 …Appendices to the McAndrew Synopsis are identified by gray tabs which appear at the top right…
  • p. 25 …The rubber was smoky gray in color and scattered over an area about 200 yards in…
  • p. 35 …a thick, foil like metallic gray substance; a brittle, brownish-black plasticlike material, like Bakelite; and…
  • p. 40 …the ruptured and shredded neoprene would "almost look like dark gray or black flakes or ashes…
  • p. 173 …Some of the material would almost look like dark gray or black flakes or ashes after…
  • p. 187 …He talks about the smoky gray rubber... Q: Which these samples here, as you say, if…
  • p. 206 …There's a gray area here. I was certainly aware that what we were doing in…
  • p. 308 …The rubber was smoky gray in color and scattered over an area about 200 yards in…
(d) Fixed Rate Ballast Equipment:(optional)

1 ea. orifice spinnerette, to give proper ballast flow

1 gallon ballast, compass fluid AN-C-116

1 ea. ballast reservoir (1 gallon capacity)

1 ea. filter 3' diameter, 325 x 325, phosphor bronze mesh

6 inches tubing (Tygon) 3/16" bore

Tracking of these flights was maintained by use of an SCR 658 radio receiver with a 400mc transmitter telemetering information from the balloon system. Information received through the telemetering circuit can be recorded on a standard weather station recorder, a recording oscilloscope of the Brush Development type or by any other convenient means.

Altitude of the service flights was determined by use of a modified radiosonde modulator, an olland cycle modulator (see p.68 , Section I, General, Technical Report 93.02(1)), or by computation from knowledge of the weight of the balloon system and volume of the balloon.

In order to keep balloon systems from floating in the air lanes, a flight termination switch was included in the circuit. This switch is a radiosonde modulator modified so that all contacts above 25,000 ft. are disconnected from the circuit. The pen arm rides on a shelf during ascent to about 30,000 ft. and then falls to the commutator (See Fig. 12).

Fig. 12

Flight Termination Switch

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