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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.

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  • p. 96 …OSI also developed an advanced Narcotics Investigations Course designed to teach the latest technics in combatting…
  • p. 174 …Dr Crary and Dr Peoples were the advance people and scientific monitors for our project. Dr…
  • p. 247 …Spilly was a consultant, and even in his advancing age he was still an enormous source…
  • p. 273 …the advance party of the balloon group arrived by B-17. $ ^{21} $ On May 29, the…
  • p. 617 …in advance of balloon release and a second notice will be filed at the time of…
  • p. 618 …Upon attaining the desired altitude, the auxiliary lifting balloons will be released from the main balloon…
  • p. 694 …in advance of balloon release and a second notice will be filed at the time of…
  • p. 695 (1) The type balloon to be used in this phase of the project will be a…
This could provide up to 40 hours of pressure-time data if recovered. At present, about 60 percent of the flights have been recovered.

2. The adoption of a time-interval or Olland-cycle radiosonde system for telemetering pressure data.

3. Expansion of the network of ground tracking stations equipped with SCR-658 direction finding sets to increase reception of data telemetered. Figure 18 shows the area to the east of Alamogordo, New Mexico, and the probable boundaries of flight paths following release from the Alamogordo Army Air Base. Table III shows the prevailing wind data on which these probable boundaries are based. Also shown in Figure 18 are the desirable locations for SCR-658 sets and the overlap of reception ranges which could be expected, using stations at Alamogordo, Roswell, New Mexico; Hobbs, N.Mex; and Big Springs, Texas.

TABLE III

AVERAGE WIND INTENSITIES IN BEAUFORT SCALE AND WIND DIRECTIONS AT ELEVATIONS TO 10,000 METERS FOR NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER 1944 AND 19

	Year	Surface	1,500M	3,000M	5,000M	10,000M
El Paso	1944	N-3	NE-1	WSW-5	W-7	--
1945	N-3	WSW-3	WSW-5	W-7	--
Roswell	1944	S-1	WNW-3	W-4	--	--
1945	S-3	SW-1	WNW-5	W-7	--
Albuquerque	1944	SE-3	--	W-3	W-6	W-9
1945	N-3	--	WNW-5	W-8	W-9
Amarillo	1944	SSW-4	W-4	WSW-5	W-7	WSW-11
1945	SW-4	SW-4	W-6	WNW-9	--
Big Spring	1944	--	WSW-4	WNW-4	W-7	WSW-9
1945	--	SW-3	W-6	WNW-7	--
Abilene	1944	--	--	--	--	--
1945	--	--	--	--	W-10

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