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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.
“William Moore”8 pages
When the system again descends to 25,000, the pen arm comes into contact with the commutator contact and an electrical circuit is closed through a squib in the load line. The load line is cut and the load on the system falls six to eight feet before being caught by a supplementary load line. During this fall a rip line pulls a hole one foot long in the side of the balloon and the system descends using the partially inflated balloon to hold the rate of descent to approximately 1200 ft/minute. This system has been used successfully in over 100 flights. A drawing of the rip assembly is shown as Fig. 13. The cannon and squib to cut the load line are shown as Fig. 14. Fig.13 Balloon Rip Assembly
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