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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. 190 …Well, Boford was Navy, that was the Navy... Q: Like taking a Pi Ball reading now…
  • p. 191 …fabricate balloons for us. During that period we heard of the Navy project that was going…
  • p. 207 …But were any of those used as precursors to Mogul or... A: None whatsoever. That was…
  • p. 270 …Ewing had conducted considerable research for the Navy during World War II, studying, among other things…
  • p. 323 …f) Measurements of actual sound channel transmission using a small stratosphere balloon carrying sound receivers and…
  • p. 657 …At the present time this company cannot supply us with balloons until Navy clearance is obtained…
  • p. 693 …for six hours using a non-extensible envelope with the addition of a ballast valve to…
  • p. 704 …Met Gifford who has 90' sea rescue boat this project is planning to use. Stayed at…
  • p. 705 …Wyckoff, Hungerfield, Vaux and myself regarding Navy participation with us in Crossroads. Captain Kellogg of Weather…
  • p. 718 …Schneider up with O'Day to check use as NYU station. Alamoggrdo crew helped get helium…
of the motor-driven units was observed; current practice is to provide adequate temperature insulation.

## (4) Barograph

As a secondary pressure unit, a clock-driven barograph has been included on many flights. The instrument (shown in Figure 33)

Figure 33. Smoked drum barograph.

will provide up to 40 hours of pressure data if recovered. About 70% of all those units flown to date have been recovered. The performance specifications are as follows:

(a) Rotation: one revolution every 12 hours

(b) Duration: 36 hours running time

(c) Pressure range: 500 to 5 mb.

(d) Accuracy: ±5 mb.

(e) Readability: 1.0 mb. or approximately .22 mm on the drum

(f) Weight: 1000 grams

(g) Time accuracy: 10%

(h) Temperature compensation between $ 3 0^{\circ} \mathrm{C} $ and $ - 7 0^{\circ} \mathrm{C} $

Instruments have been built by Lange Laboratories to meet these requirements (the time accuracy figure is questionable).

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