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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.
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## Flight 12: Released from Lakehurst, New Jersey, 0714 EST, August 5, 1947 Recovered at Smyrna, Delaware This flight saw the first use of several new items. The balloon was the first .001" polyethylene cell flown; a 397 mo(T-69) transmitter was flown, with radio direction-finding equipment used to track the balloon; a 3 mo (AM-1) transmitter was tested for the first time and the first model of a minimum-pressure switch was provided to activate the automatic ballast valve. The equipment train for this flight is illustrated in Figure 9. Figure 9: Train, Flight 12 Measurements in the hangar prior to release indicated that lift losses from leakage and diffusion were about 200 grams per hour, and in addition
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