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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.
“Williams Air Force Base”6 pages
This altitude-control system operated well enough to produce a heighttime curve (Figure 4) with one descent checked by ballast dropping. Too much weight was lost in this action, and the train rose until some of the balloons were burst. Subsequent descent was not checked. Figure 4 From this flight it appears that the inherent instability of freely extensible balloons is so great that no simple control will cause them to remain at one pressure level. Tracking for the entire flight period was accomplished with a C-54 aircraft. Two theodolite stations were operated, one at the launching site and one at Wafford Lookout, a fire tower about 20 miles northeast of the release point.
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