Documents / Report

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. 190 …Well, Boford was Navy, that was the Navy... Q: Like taking a Pi Ball reading now…
  • p. 191 …fabricate balloons for us. During that period we heard of the Navy project that was going…
  • p. 207 …But were any of those used as precursors to Mogul or... A: None whatsoever. That was…
  • p. 270 …Ewing had conducted considerable research for the Navy during World War II, studying, among other things…
  • p. 323 …f) Measurements of actual sound channel transmission using a small stratosphere balloon carrying sound receivers and…
  • p. 657 …At the present time this company cannot supply us with balloons until Navy clearance is obtained…
  • p. 693 …for six hours using a non-extensible envelope with the addition of a ballast valve to…
  • p. 704 …Met Gifford who has 90' sea rescue boat this project is planning to use. Stayed at…
  • p. 705 …Wyckoff, Hungerfield, Vaux and myself regarding Navy participation with us in Crossroads. Captain Kellogg of Weather…
  • p. 718 …Schneider up with O'Day to check use as NYU station. Alamoggrdo crew helped get helium…
## List of Figures (cont'd)

Fig. 22. Polyethylene balloon weights... 18

Fig. 23. Balloon weights for various fabric weights... 18

Fig. 24. Free lift of balloons vs. rate of rise... 19

Fig. 25. General Mills twenty-foot balloon billowing in a 5-knot wind... 23

Fig. 26. Heavy elliptical shot bag... 23

Fig. 27. Aluminum "oannon" in position... 24

Fig. 28. Plan view of balloon launching layout... 25

Fig. 29. Balloon shapes during launching... 25

Fig. 30. General Mills twenty-foot balloon in flight... 26

APPENDIX I

Fig. 31. Train Assembly, flight 5, (meteorological cluster)... 36

Fig. 32. Trajectory, flight 5... 36

Fig. 33. Height-time curve, flight 5... 36

Fig. 34. Trajectory, flight 6... 36

Fig. 35. Height-time curve, flight 6... 36

Fig. 36. Train assembly, flight 7, (meteorological cluster)... 36

Fig. 37. Trajectory, flight 7... 36

Fig. 38. Height-time curve, flight 7... 36

Fig. 39. Train assembly, flight 8, (General Mills Cluster)... 36

Fig. 40. Trajectory, flight 8... 36

Fig. 41. Height-time curve, flight 8... 36

Fig. 42. Train assembly, flight 10... 36

Fig. 43. Height-time curve, flight 10... 36

Fig. 44. Train assembly, flight 11... 36

Fig. 45. Trajectory and height-time curve, flight 11... 36

Fig. 46. Train assembly, flight 12... 36

Fig. 47. Height-time curve, flight 12... 36

Cited by

Cases discussed

About this file

Report, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 882 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.