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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.
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given point in a cross-section through the atmosphere was misleading. In order to avoid the suggestion of greater precision than was warranted by the character of the information available, it was decided, during the autumn of 1947 to present the meteorological diagnoses in a different form. Since that time, graphs (in lieu of cross-sections) have been constructed to show the vertical distributions of the estimated ranges, that is to say, the estimated extremes of temperature and wind on the whole or over a part of the area involved in each experiment. Since August, 1950, the principal task has been the preparation of diagnoses of conditions existing during experiments being conducted regularly in eastern Colorado, western Nebraska and western Kansas by the Industrial Research Institute of the University of Denver. The design of these experiments necessitates a particularly careful study of the available weather data and the exercise of a considerable amount of synoptic meteorological judgment in the preparation of the wind and temperature diagnoses. ## F. Flights Utilizing the Constant Level Balloon System After completion of the balloon control and telemetering development phases of the project, the balloon systems were utilized under Contracts AF 19(122)-45 and AF 28(099)-10, between this University and the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories. A brief review of these projects is as follows: ## 1. High Altitude Balloon Trajectory Study (Contract AF 19(122)-45) Under the terms of this contract the Research Division was commissioned to launch and track constant level balloon systems in order to study wind conditions at the 200 mb level of the atmosphere. Flights were to remain afloat until they had traveled approximately 1000 miles. In order to track the balloon systems, the AM-1 transmitter was operated at 1746 kc, using the radio compass from an aircraft to "home in" on the balloon and position it at specified time intervals. Information on pressure altitude, ballast flow data and balloon, free air and transmitter battery pack temperatures was transmitted through the AM-1 to receivers mounted in the aircraft and recorded on brush recorders for analysis at New York University. A total of 22 flights (two of which crossed the Atlantic Ocean and were recovered in Norway and Algeria) were
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