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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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Released from Alamogordo, New Mexico, 1241 MST, August 25, 1948 Recovered at Lovington, Texas This flight was planned to measure the diffusion and leakage of lifting gas through a 20-foot, .001" polyethylene balloon at 40,000 feet. A fixed-leak orifice was set to flow at 100 grams per hour, and an automatic ballast valve was included to supply more ballast as demanded. This automatic valve broke on release, and the flow of 100 grams per hour was not sufficient to keep the balloon and equipment up. Temperature data on this flight was obtained from thermistors inside the balloon, inside the battery and in the free air. These data and the heighttime curve are shown in Figure 38. During the period from 1400 to 1530 when Figure 38 the balloon was slowly descending, the temperature of the gas increased with respect to the free air temperature, and a differential of 150C was recorded at 1530. With subsequent, more rapid descent, this differential was reduced, presumably by ventilation. The battery box temperature remained above 100C after four hours aloft.
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