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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.
“Office of Special Investigations”7 pages
The sunset effect resulted in a rise of about 500 feet (5 mb) in the floating level of the balloon at 1830 MST. This seems to be due to a change in the effective seal-off pressure of the aneroid capsule of the automatic ballast valve which was the consequence of a decrease in the temperature of the trapped air inside. The rise in altitude experienced corresponds to a decrease of temperature of about $ 6^{\circ} \mathrm{C} $ , the superheat of the aneroid, which was lost at sunset. This valve may be compared with the $ 30^{\circ} \mathrm{C} $ found on Flight 10. On the earlier flight a black valve was used while on this flight the equipment was polished aluminum, with a highly reflective surface. 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.