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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.
the General Mills and pernaps by the Bureau of Standards in Washington. The altitue control devices need to be analyzed for determination of optimum settings for initial action and rates of release of the bellast. This problem is awaiting some flights before a full scale, mathematical study is undertaken. The main problem is the flight testing of the equipment planned as a tentative solution to the desired flight path. This awaits receipt of some large lightweight balloon envelopes and more of the altitude controls. ## 3. Limitations. More work would have been accomplished had the equipment to be furnished by the Government arrived. The prefabricated building that is to be supplied by the Government according to the contract is urgently needed, as there is no housing available for the project at N. Y. U. The project personnel has been using work benches occupied by other projects. The project has been using the office space of another research group. This has not been satisfactory as six of their men and four of ours attempt to work in a joint laboratory and office 15 x 15. Restriction on the project is the Civil Aeronautics Authority requirement that balloon flights be made only on days that are cloudless up to 20,000 feet. This is difficult to meet in the eastern United States but appears less difficult in the New Mexico area. The pertinent abstract from minutes of the meeting with the Air Space Sub-Committee of CAA on 17 March 1947 are included in the appendix.
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