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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.
Flight 103: Released from Alamogordo, New Mexico, 1015 MST, February 4, 1949 Recovered at Mountain View, Oklahoma On Flight 103 a B-17 airplane was used to follow the balloon, homing in on the signal from the AM-1 transmitter with the radio compass. There were few clouds over the first section of the balloon's path, and very exact positioning was obtainable. The compass needle reversed almost immediately, and no cone of silence was found when the plane passed beneath the balloon. The fixes indicated on the trajectory (Figure 52) show how exactly the path of the balloon may be determined when tracked in such a manner. Figure 52
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