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The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert

USAF / The Black Vault · 1995 · 882 pages · text by GLM-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. 270 …other things, the "sound channel" in the ocean. He proved that explosions could be heard thousands…
  • p. 477 …feet carried this second flight into the Pacific Ocean. Radar, RDF and theodolite were used to…

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## Flight 73: Released from Alamogordo, New Mexico, 1948 MST, July 14, 1948 Recovered at Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico

The objective of this nighttime flight was to determine whether a fixed ballast leak of 100 grams per hour would sustain a 20-foot, .001" polyethylene balloon at floating levels near 50,000 feet. From the Olland-cycle pressure record (Figure 27) it appears that loss of buoyancy due to

Figure 27

diffusion and leakage is more than this. Indeed, the balloon with this ballast flow did not remain at altitude as long as either Flight 70 and 71 which were without altitude controls.

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