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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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fourth ballast-flow periods, this rise in "ceiling" is attributed to the cooling of the air entrapped in the aneroid of the automatic ballast valve. This decrease of pressure of 21 mb corresponds to a loss of $ 8^{\circ} \mathrm{C} $ of superheat. In each of the four periods of ballast flow, there was enough unnecessary ballast lost to cause an overshoot when the balloon returned to its floating level. This excess ballast was that used during the period when the balloon had begun to rise but was still below activation altitude of the automatic ballast valve. The inefficient use of ballast was one of the major objections to such a control system.
On this flight the ballast load of 3 kilograms was exhausted in only three hours, indicating a large loss of gas from this particular balloon. It is believed that the large initial acceleration provided by the rapid descent of the balloon caused the restoring force, and the subsequent overshoot, to be very large, and the high ballast flow is probably much greater than was the loss of buoyancy on this flight. 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.