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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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## TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction ... 5 Contract Requirements ... 5 Project Facilities ... 6 II. Principles of Balloon Control ... 6 III. Methods of Attack ... 8 Rubber Balloons ... 8 Plastic Balloons ... 9 Internal-Pressure Balloons ... 14 Altitude Controls ... 16 Flight Simulation ... 25 Flight Termination Gear ... 29 IV. Equations and Theoretical Considerations ... 30 Floating Altitude and Altitude Sensitivity ... 30 Rate of Rise ... 33 Superheat and its Effects ... 34 Adiabatic Lapse Rate ... 38 Diffusion and Leakage of Lifting Gas ... 40 Bursting Pressure and Appendix Considerations ... 47 A General Equation of Motion ... 56 V. Telemetering ... 62 Information Transmitted ... 62 Transmitters Used ... 63 Receivers and Recorders Used ... 65 Batteries Used ... 65 Radio Direction-Finding ... 66 Radar and Optical Tracking ... 67 VI. Instrumentation ... 67 Altitude Determination ... 67 Temperature Measurements ... 74 Ballast Metering ... 76 VII. Conclusions ... 79
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