Documents / Report
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.
“R.G.”5 pages
were to be freed at 40,000, 42,000 and 45,000 feet. The use of sand ballast, to be dropped in increments upon descent to altitudes below 31,000 feet, was supplemented by an early model of the automatic ballast valve set to expend liquid ballast at 34,000 feet. From the height-time curve of the flight (Figure 2), it will be seen that the maximum altitude reached was much above the predicted 35,000 feet. Also Figure 2 the rate of rise was greater than expected. Both of these evidences of excess buoyancy are attributed to superheating of the balloon by sunshine. The real height is somewhat in doubt because the conventional radiosonde baro switch (Army type ML-310/) was used, and the pressure signal which was transmitted was ambiguous at some points. On this flight theodolite readings were taken until the balloon was 90 miles away from release point after 260 minutes of flight. In addition, visual observations were taken from a B-17 aircraft which circled the balloon for most of the flight.
Report, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 882 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.