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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. 3 # THE ROSWELL REPORT # Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert Headquarters United States Air Force…
  • p. 8 Clinical Investigations and Life Sciences Division, Headquarters Air Force Medical Operating Agency, Bolling AFB, DC; John…
  • p. 25 …the disc had been "flown to higher headquarters." That same story also reported that a Roswell…
  • p. 27 …These locations include Fort Worth, Texas, the home of the Eighth Air Force Headquarters; possibly Sandia…
  • p. 61 # DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE MEMORANDUM FOR SAF/AA FROM: AF…
  • p. 65 …DuBose says officials at the Headquarters of the Eighth Air Force were directed to tell the…
  • p. 70 # DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WASHINGTON DC MEMORANDUM FOR SAF/AAZ…
  • p. 86 HEADQUARTERS 509TH BOMB GP (VH) ROSSELL AFFY AIR FIELD ROSSELL, NEW MEXICO GENERAL ORDERS) NUMBER 9…
  • p. 87 …Arner per Paragraph 3, Special Order, #139, Headquarters, Roswell Army Air Field, dated 18 July 1947…
  • p. 89 …Arner per paragraph 3, SO #139, Headquarters, this station, dated 18 July 1947. 1st Lt. Lewis…
  • p. 90 …Colonel Loberg, Headquarters, Eighth Air Force, arrived this date to coordinate with S-3 and check…
  • p. 91 …Boatright, Headquarters, Eighth Air Force, arrived to coordinate with Statistical Control on cost analysis. 16 July…
  • p. 110 # HEADQUARTERS, ARMY AIR FORCES WASHINGTON SUBJECT: Issuance of Orders ## TO: NND760168 Commanding General Air Material Command…
  • p. 119 …where we haven't squadron or group headquarters should take their people away. 1:55 P…
  • p. 131 …I did not make a report of this incident to my headquarters since I felt that…
  • p. 136 …700 CIC was the CIC Headquarters.
  • p. 137 …700 CIC was the Headquarters? SC: Yes, I don't think I even made a report…
  • p. 138 …I think this was taken at the Headquarters at Carswell. RW: Yeah, that's right. That…
  • p. 139 …I took it to 8th Air Force Headquarters, General Ramey was excited; they were going to…
  • p. 148 …I don't even want 700 CIC Headquarters to know we wasted our time on it…
  • p. 149 …And if anybody from headquarters CIC came in I'm positive they would have checked in…
  • p. 192 …I was assigned, believe it or not, to Headquarters, Air Force... I still have the Headquarters…
  • p. 230 …on the basis of orders out of Headquarters Army Air Force. Q: While you were operating…
  • p. 231 …These are the pictures taken in General Ramey's office, 8th Air Force Headquarters by a…
  • p. 246 …Then after I left the headquarters of ARDC in Baltimore, I spent four years at the…
  • p. 269 …debris be flown to Eighth Air Force Headquarters at Fort Worth AAF, TX, for his personal…
  • p. 278 …Andrews AAF was headquarters of the Army Air Forces Weather Service. It is also interesting to…
  • p. 306 …this local headquarters of the AMC under the Walton Laboratories group, who have headquarters at Red…
  • p. 325 HEADQUARTERS FITZWILLIAM FORWARD c/o Commander, Task Group 7.2 APO 187, c/o Postmaster San…
  • p. 327 …Reports of results were made to Headquarters FITZWILLIAM FORWARD and to AFMSW-1. Results of the…
  • p. 855 …Brady, all from Headquarters. Eighth Air Force, arrived here for a conference and inspecting and coordination…
  • p. 873 …Marcellus Duffy eliminated it and several others from the project when Headquarters U.S. Army Air…
properly at 12,000 feet, but the air entrapped in its aneroid was heated and caused the operating level to be at the lower value. This would correspond to a superheat of $ 3 0^{\circ} \mathrm{C} $ above the air temperature.

Later flights showed that the type of load attachment used on this balloon was unsatisfactory; however, with proper rigging, cells of .008" thickness were good vehicles as they usually showed very low diffusion and gas leakage.

Near the end of the recorded data, the height-time curve shows large oscillations about a pressure plane (Figure 6). Three factors which probably

Figure 6

contributed to this instability were:(1) the turbulent motion of the heated air over the desert, (2) the changes in temperature of air in the aneroid valve as intermittent clouds shut off the sun, and (3) the overcompensation caused by the valve-controlled ballast flow.

On this flight the first "destruction device" was used for the purpose of bringing down the balloon after a fixed time to prevent excessive interference in air-traffic lanes. This particular model was a clock-driven device which failed to operate, probably because of low temperatures causing unequal contraction within the movement. Its action was to consist of detonating an inflammable compound taped to the balloon, rupturing its side and permitting a rapid escape of the lifting gas.

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