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The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert

USAF / The Black Vault · 1995 · 882 pages · text by OCR

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.

  • p. 270 …other things, the "sound channel" in the ocean. He proved that explosions could be heard thousands…
  • p. 477 …feet carried this second flight into the Pacific Ocean. Radar, RDF and theodolite were used to…
## 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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