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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
## Flight 93: Released from Alamogordo, New Mexico, 0712 MST, September 1, 1948 Recovered at Neuvas Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico This daytime flight with a 20-foot, .001" polyethylene balloon went up with defective ballast controls; consequently the flight's main value is in showing the natural stability of such a balloon without any altitude controls. As with Flight 88, which went to about the same height (40,000 feet), this balloon remained at a near-floating level for less than two hours (Figure 42). It is interesting to compare this duration at 40,000 feet with the four-hour duration at 50,000 feet shown on Flight 70 and 71. Probably the effect of reduced pressure on diffusion of the lifting gas is a major factor contributing to the longer floating period at the lower pressure. Figure 42
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