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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.
Controls, first use of (cont'd.) fixed needle-valve ballast leak, 11 fixed orifice ballast leak, 43 minimum-pressure switch with automatic ballast valve, 12 rate-of-ascent ballast switch, 97 rate-of-ascent ballast switch combined with displacement switch, 102 superpressure, 23 lifter balloons, 5, 7 solid ballast, 5, 7 superpressure, 23, 38, 59, 63, 66, 79, 87, 94 typical flight with automatic ballast valve, 92 fixed ballast leak, 82 rate-of-ascent ballast switch combined with displacement switch, 102 Deformation of air flow over mountain range, 11 Destruction device first use of, 10 first use of new design (rip-out principle), 41, (Fig. 16) Dewey and Almy, shrouded rubber balloons, 23, 38, 66, 87 Dropsonde, 85 Easterly winds at high levels, 60, 75 Fixed-leak ballast control first use of, 11 typical flight with, 82 Flight patterns, typical with polyethylene balloons and automatic ballast-valve control, 92 with polyethylene balloons and automatic ballast-valve control thru a sunset, 90, 92 with polyethylene balloons and fixed flow of ballast, 82 Flight patterns, typical (cont'd.) with rubber balloons and increment ballast loss, 5, 7 Geostrpphic air flow, compared with balloon trajectories, 55, 58, 106, 110 Lange barograph first use of, 52 longest record of, 75 Lifter balloons for altitude control, 5, 7 Meteorograph, Fergusson, 33, 35, 39 Minimum-pressure switch failures due to freezing of, 78, 80 first use of, 12 need for, demonstrated, 11 Olland-cycle pressure modulator, use of, 43, 52, 55, 58, 73, 97, 98 Oscillations in the atmosphere, 10, 52, 55, 58, 63, 71 Polyethylene balloons 7'-diameter, 74, 76, 84, 86 30'-diameter, 102 15'-diameter, 10 20'-diameter, 12, 17 70'-diameter, 75 Pressure-measuring instruments barograph, 33 Lange barograph, 52 Olland-cycle modulator, 43, 52, 55, 58, 73, 97, 98 Program switch, use of, 103 Radar tracking, 75, 86 Radio direction-finding airborne, 41, 103, 110
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