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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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## Flight 106: Released from Alamogordo, New Mexico, 0657 MST, February 8, 1949 Recovered at Ellsmore, Kansas This was the first flight to clearly demonstrate the efficient action of a combination ballast control-displacement switch and rate-of-ascent switch-on a 20-foot, .001" polyethylene balloon. From the height-time curve and ballast-flow record (Figure 54), it will be seen that the ballast control was operating at 41,000 feet MSL during the period of radio reception from Alamogordo, New Mexico. By the time the second receiving station picked up the signal, all of the ballast had been exhausted and the balloon was falling. On this flight a high loss of lifting gas caused the total ballast load of 600 grams to be exhausted in less than five hours. (Average used in first two hours was 1700 grams per hour.) Figure 54 The descent point of this balloon was compared with that predicted from a study of the atmospheric pressure patterns at floating level. Assuming geostrophic flow, members of a graduate class in meteorology at New York
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