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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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## Index (All references are to flight number $ \varepsilon $ . The number of the flight on which a particular instrument or principle was first demonstrated is underlined. For example, airborne radio direction finding was first used on Flight 41.) Adiabatic temperature changes, 60, 75, 94 Airborne radio direction-finding, 41, 103, 110 Aircraft tracking, 5, 7, 11, 12, 13- 20, 86, 103 Air flow deformation of, over mountain range, 11 geostrophic, compared with balloon trajectories, 55, 58, 106, 110 Altitude sensitivity, 52, 82, 86, 110 Appendices (external) on polyethylene balloons first use of, 13 need for, demonstrated, 12 stiffened with cardboard, 20, 39 stiffened with metal, 75 Arrays of rubber balloons cluster, 7 linear, 5 Automatic ballast valve effect of superheat on, 10, 74, 80, 92 first activated by minimum-pressure switch, 12 first use of, 5 sunset effect on, 80, 90, 92 typical flight with, 92 Ballast requirements (cont'd.) with .008", 15'-diameter polyethylene balloon, 11 with Seyfang balloon, 94 Balloons flights using other than polyethylene neoprene-coated nylon (Seyfang), 59, 63, 79, 94 rubber, 5, 7 shrouded rubber (Dewey and Almy), 23, 38, 66, 87 flights using polyethylene .001", 7'-diameter, 74 .001", 20'-diameter, 12 .001", 70'-diameter, 75 .001", 30'-diameter, 102 .004", 20'-diameter, 17 .008", 15'-diameter, 10 Barograph longest record of, 75 need for, demonstrated, 17, 29, 30, 32 use of (Fergusson), 33, 35, 39 use of new model (Lange), 52 Buoyancy changes in, due to sunset, 75, 90 natural Seyfang balloons in the troposphere, 79 7'-diameter polyethylene balloons in the troposphere, 86 20'-diameter polyethylene balloons in the stratosphere, 60, 96 20'-diameter polyethylene balloons in the troposphere, 70, 71, 88, 93, 98 70'-diameter polyethylene balloons in the stratosphere, 75 Ballast meter need for, demonstrated, 29-39 use of, 74, 78, 80, 86, 89, 90, 92 94, 96, 102 Ballast requirements with .001"，7'-diameter poly ethylene balloons,74 with .001"，20'-diameter poly ethylene balloons,54,56,60, 80,92,106 Combination control (rate of ascent ballast switch with displacement switch) first use of, 102 typical flight with, 106 Controls first use of automatic ballast valve, 5
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