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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. 39 …An advance ground team, led by Albert P. Cray, preceded the NYU group to Alamogordo Army…
  • p. 96 …OSI also developed an advanced Narcotics Investigations Course designed to teach the latest technics in combatting…
  • p. 174 …Dr Crary and Dr Peoples were the advance people and scientific monitors for our project. Dr…
  • p. 247 …Spilly was a consultant, and even in his advancing age he was still an enormous source…
  • p. 273 …the advance party of the balloon group arrived by B-17. $ ^{21} $ On May 29, the…
  • p. 617 …in advance of balloon release and a second notice will be filed at the time of…
  • p. 618 …Upon attaining the desired altitude, the auxiliary lifting balloons will be released from the main balloon…
  • p. 694 …in advance of balloon release and a second notice will be filed at the time of…
  • p. 695 (1) The type balloon to be used in this phase of the project will be a…
(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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