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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.
“Headquarters”32 pages
- p. 3 # THE ROSWELL REPORT
# Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert
Headquarters United States Air Force…
- p. 8 Clinical Investigations and Life Sciences Division, Headquarters Air Force Medical Operating Agency, Bolling AFB, DC; John…
- p. 25 …the disc had been "flown to higher headquarters." That same story also reported that a Roswell…
- p. 27 …These locations include Fort Worth, Texas, the home of the Eighth Air Force Headquarters; possibly Sandia…
- p. 61 # DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
MEMORANDUM FOR SAF/AA
FROM: AF…
- p. 65 …DuBose says officials at the Headquarters of the Eighth Air Force were directed to tell the…
- p. 70 # DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WASHINGTON DC
MEMORANDUM FOR SAF/AAZ…
- p. 86 HEADQUARTERS
509TH BOMB GP (VH)
ROSSELL AFFY AIR FIELD
ROSSELL, NEW MEXICO
GENERAL ORDERS)
NUMBER 9…
- p. 87 …Arner per Paragraph 3, Special Order, #139, Headquarters, Roswell Army Air Field, dated 18 July 1947…
- p. 89 …Arner per paragraph 3, SO #139, Headquarters, this station, dated 18 July 1947. 1st Lt. Lewis…
- p. 90 …Colonel Loberg, Headquarters, Eighth Air Force, arrived this date to coordinate with S-3 and check…
- p. 91 …Boatright, Headquarters, Eighth Air Force, arrived to coordinate with Statistical Control on cost analysis.
16 July…
- p. 110 # HEADQUARTERS, ARMY AIR FORCES WASHINGTON
SUBJECT: Issuance of Orders
## TO:
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Commanding General Air Material Command…
- p. 119 …where we haven't squadron or group headquarters should take their people away.
1:55 P…
- p. 131 …I did not make a report of this incident to my headquarters since I felt that…
- p. 136 …700 CIC was the CIC Headquarters.
- p. 137 …700 CIC was the Headquarters?
SC: Yes, I don't think I even made a report…
- p. 138 …I think this was taken at the Headquarters at Carswell.
RW: Yeah, that's right. That…
- p. 139 …I took it to 8th Air Force Headquarters, General Ramey was excited; they were going to…
- p. 148 …I don't even want 700 CIC Headquarters to know we wasted our time on it…
- p. 149 …And if anybody from headquarters CIC came in I'm positive they would have checked in…
- p. 192 …I was assigned, believe it or not, to Headquarters, Air Force... I still have the Headquarters…
- p. 230 …on the basis of orders out of Headquarters Army Air Force.
Q: While you were operating…
- p. 231 …These are the pictures taken in General Ramey's office, 8th Air Force Headquarters by a…
- p. 246 …Then after I left the headquarters of ARDC in Baltimore, I spent four years at the…
- p. 269 …debris be flown to Eighth Air Force Headquarters at Fort Worth AAF, TX, for his personal…
- p. 278 …Andrews AAF was headquarters of the Army Air Forces Weather Service. It is also interesting to…
- p. 306 …this local headquarters of the AMC under the Walton Laboratories group, who have headquarters at Red…
- p. 325 HEADQUARTERS FITZWILLIAM FORWARD c/o Commander, Task Group 7.2 APO 187, c/o Postmaster San…
- p. 327 …Reports of results were made to Headquarters FITZWILLIAM FORWARD and to AFMSW-1.
Results of the…
- p. 855 …Brady, all from Headquarters. Eighth Air Force, arrived here for a conference and inspecting and coordination…
- p. 873 …Marcellus Duffy eliminated it and several others from the project when Headquarters U.S. Army Air…
the pressure distribution of the lifting gas and the internal back pressure due to valving gas. To find maximum rates of ascent for various balloons would necessitate a complicated series of trial and error solution. In general, it has been more practical to determine a maximum rate of rise for normal operating conditions for any given size balloon by finding the maximum allowable rate for the balloon rising to its lowest normal operating level (i.e., we will find the maximum allowable rate for the worst normal operating conditions and consider it a maximum for all normal operating conditions.)
Let us take the case of a 20-foot diameter polyethylene balloon of .001" thickness. Lowest normal floating altitude is 20,000 ft. MSL. Let us assume that the balloon will be full and begin valving gas at 15,000 ft. MSL. Assume the appendix diameter to be $ \frac{1}{2} $ foot. Using equation (1) to find maximum allowable internal pressure and assuming the critical x-y plane to be that of maximum diameter $ \Delta Z=D/2 $ , we have:
$$
\Delta p _ {\mathrm {a l l .}} = \frac {4 S _ {\mathrm {f t}}}{D} = \frac {4 (9 0 0 / 2) \cdot . 0 0 1}{1 2 \cdot 2 0} = . 0 0 7 5 \mathrm {p s i}
$$
(Here we have introduced a factor of safety by saying $ S_{f}=9 0 0 / 2 $ instead of 900 psi, the ultimate strength in tension of polyethylene.) Pressure distribution:
$$
\Delta p _ {D / 2} = \Delta z \frac {d p}{d z} (1 - B) = \frac {\angle O}{2} \cdot 3. 3 8 \cdot 1 0 ^ {- 4} \cdot 8 6 2 = . 0 0 2 9 1 p s i
$$
Allowable back pressure:
$$
\Delta p _ {b p} = \Delta p _ {a l l} - \Delta p _ {0 / 2} = . 0 0 4 6 \mathrm {p s i}
$$
Maximum rate of rise using equation (13);
$$
\frac {d Z}{d t} = \sqrt {\frac {2 8 8 \Delta p _ {b p} g}{d _ {g}}} \left(\frac {2 7 8 0 0}{V} C _ {d} A _ {a}\right) f t / \sec
$$
$$
= 1 0 0. 7 \mathrm {f t / s e c}
$$
$$
= 6 0 0 0 \mathrm {f t / m i n}
$$
It is evident from this calculation that the rate of rise of the 20-ft. diameter polyethylene balloon is not a critical factor in bursting unless the open appendix becomes snarled and gas is not allowed to escape.
Rate of rise and appendix openings are important from the standpoint of balloon design. For operational reasons it is important to have a rapid rate of rise. In order to make most efficient use of weight, the balloon film should be thin. As mentioned About this file
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