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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.
Released from Alamogordo, New Mexico, 0733 MST, September 8, 1948 Not recovered On Flight 96 a .001", 20-foot polyethylene balloon was used to carry a ballast meter to about 45,000 feet to determine the flow required at that altitude using an automatic ballast valve. No record of ballast flow was telemetered during this flight, but it is not known whether the meter was inoperative, or the valve itself failed--possibly due to failure of a squib to detonate at the combined low pressure and cold temperature aloft. From the height-time curve, Figure 44, it will be noted that the balloon was in a near-floating condition for about four hours when the transmitter Figure 44 signal gave out. There is no way of telling whether the constant-level flight obtained was due to the natural buoyancy of the balloon or the action of the automatic ballast valve.
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