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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…
Flights 68 through 72: In July, 1948 this series of flights was made without ballast controls to determine the natural buoyancy of the General Mills, Inc. 20-foot .001" polyethylene balloons. Of five such flights, only two good barograph records were obtained, one daytime flight (70) and one night flight (71). In both cases a nearly constant level was maintained for about four hours at the highest altitude reached.

On the barogram of Flight 70 (Figure 25) a section of arrested descent may be noticed, preceded and followed by a nearly constant fall. The cause of this step is not apparent, although a check has been made of the atmospheric structure of that day.

NYU BALLOON PROJECT FLIGHT 70 Showing 20' General Mills Balloon Performance When No Ballast Was Dropped RELEASED AT HOLLOMAN AFB,N.M.-JULY 8,1948 0633 MST-RECOVERED AT KENT,TEXAS

Figure 25

On Flight 71 marked oscillations are seen at the floating level and also during the descent portion of the barogram (Figure 26). Clearly these must represent atmospheric motions since no controls of any sort were in use. There is no reason to believe that rapid changes in superheat occured, since the floating level was far above the cloud level. Also the flight was made at night and no sunshine was encountered.

NYU BALLOON PROJECT FLIGHT 71

Barograph Record Of G.M. 20 Ft. Plastic Balloon Showing Balloon Performance When No Ballast Was Dropped. RELEASED AT ALAMOGORDO N.M., 2042 MST-9 JULY, 1948 RECOVERED AT VALENTINE TEXAS, 10 JULY, 1948 ESTIMATED DURATION 10 HOURS

Figure 26

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