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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 23: Released from Alamogordo, New Mexico, 0918 MST, September 12, 1947 Not recovered
A J-2000 neoprene balloon was enoased with a nylon shroud and provided with a valve to permit gas to escape after a small superpressure $ (\frac{1}{4} $ of water) was exceeded. The balloon in its shroud is shown in Figure 12.
Figure 12: Neoprene balloon encased in a nylon shroud
If a "superpressure" balloon is used, much less ballast is required since, during minor oscillations, the reduction of buoyancy will not cause the balloon to descend as long as the remaining buoyancy is equal to or greater than the load supported.
This balloon, and three similar ones (Flights 38, 66, 87), failed to achieve any constancy of altitude. All four failed during the rising period or soon after the shroud became full. (The balloons were heated prior to release to restore elasticity.) Report, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 882 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.