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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 82: Released from Alamogordo, New Mexico, 0515 MST, August 10, 1948 Recovered at Roswell, New Mexico
This flight was made with a 20-foot, .001" polyethylene balloon carrying a load to 54,000 feet and sustained by a fixed-leak orifice control, expending ballast at about 525 grams per hour. With 4500 grams of ballast aboard the balloon should have been increasingly buoyant for $ 8 \frac{1}{2} $ hours after release. From the barogram (Figure 35) it may be seen that the "ceiling" did rise, at
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RELEASED AT ALAMOGORDO, N.M.- 0511 MST, 10 AUG 1948 DESCENDED AT ROSWELL,N.M.- 1630 MST, 10 AUG 1948 DURATION- 11 $ \frac{1}{2} $ hrs
Figure 35
a rate of 700 feet per hour (525 grams of ballast was lost each hour), for about $ 7_{2}^{1} $ hours, and then generally accelerating descent was experienced.
On this flight, radio reception was maintained for the entire air-borne period of 11 hours. Flight 82 is a good example of flight using a single fixed-leak orifice for altitude control by ballast dropping. 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.