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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.
## Flight 5: Released from Alamogordo, New Mexico, 0517 MST, June 5, 1947 Recovered at Roswell, New Mexico In this flight, a 55-pound load was lifted with a linear array of 28 350-gram rubber balloons. By attaching the balloons at 20-foot intervals along the load line, a total length of about 600 feet was required. The train is shown in Figure 1. For altitude control, three lifting balloons Figure 1: Train, Flight 5 were cut free at 35,000 feet, and the remaining load was weighted to balance at that point. As a precaution against over-buoyancy, three more balloons
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