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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
On this flight a 15-foot, .008" wall, polyethylene balloon was combined with a cluster of six small plastic cells (7-foot diameter, .001" wall) to lift a total load of 35 pounds as high as possible (Figure 7). The small Figure 7: Train, Flight 11 cells did not rise as fast as the large balloon; consequently, three of them were inverted and filled with air. With this loss of lift, the altitude reached was only about 17,000 feet MSL, and the automatic ballast valve (set to operate at 45,000 feet) was not activated. This flight demonstrated the need for a minimum-pressure switch
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