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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.
“Pacific Ocean”2 pages
Flight 10: Released from Alamogordo, New Mexico, 0501 MST, July 5, 1947 Not recovered This flight was the first to use a large plastic balloon as the lifting vehicle. The cell was spherical, 15 feet in diameter, and the walls were .008" polyethylene heat sealed at the seams (made by Harold A. Smith, Inc.). The altitude control was an automatic ballast valve, pressure-triggered to throw off liquid ballast. The equipment train used on this flight is shown in Figure 5. Figure 5: Train, Flight 10 The balloon rose to about 16,000 feet MSL and dropped back to 9000 feet MSL where it "floated" for at least 4 hours, at which time radiosonde reception failed. It is believed that the automatic ballast valve sealed off
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