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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.
“Fort Worth”30 pages
- p. 12 …Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July 9, 1947
17. Statement, Lt. Col. Sheridan…
- p. 13 …Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July 9, 1947
2. Organizational Chart, Watson Laboratories…
- p. 27 …These locations include Fort Worth, Texas, the home of the Eighth Air Force Headquarters; possibly Sandia…
- p. 31 …DC; Federal Records Center, Ft Worth, TX; the INSCOM Archives, Fort Meade, MD; National Air and…
- p. 35 …in the famous photos (Atch 16) in Fort Worth was that of a radar target normally…
- p. 36 …were told was a flying saucer to Fort Worth. The people on board included...and Maj…
- p. 37 …Newton was a weather officer assigned to Fort Worth, who was on duty when the Roswell…
- p. 42 …photographs taken at the time by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, that depicted Ramey and Marcel…
- p. 43 …the wreckage prior to its getting to Fort Worth. This organization reported on July 20, 1994…
- p. 47 …After the autopsies, conspiracy theorists said the bodies were flown to Fort Worth and then to…
- p. 65 …to Fort Worth.
"Flying disc." Some of the debris was flown to Fort Worth.
as where…
- p. 84 …Center (WNRC) or the Southwest Regional Depository (Fort Worth, Texas).
## Recommendations
Because the records management policy…
- p. 131 …taken to Eighth Air Force Headquarters in Fort Worth where it was subsequently identified as a…
- p. 138 …And I obviously...Marcel took it to Fort Worth. Yeah that's the...
RW: Yeah. That…
- p. 139 …into Wright-Pat and Kirtland, or to Fort Worth. Back and forth, loaded up, with very…
- p. 145 …Then it said: "After Marcel had gone to Fort Worth and came back Marcel challenged the…
- p. 147 …O.K."Marcel would take some of the sample to Fort Worth to show Ramey. In…
- p. 150 normal course of his duty was sent to Washington not 8th Air Force in Fort Worth…
- p. 219 …But the Roswell morning paper clearly showed that there was a knowledgeable person in Fort Worth…
- p. 231 …Headquarters by a news photographer of the Fort Worth Star Telegram. It's four pictures that…
- p. 263 …I was the only weather forecaster on duty in the Fort Worth base weather and flight…
- p. 269 …flown to Eighth Air Force Headquarters at Fort Worth AAF, TX, for his personal inspection. Upon…
- p. 277 …Before the announcement was made, the "disc" was flown to Fort Worth AAF, at the direction…
- p. 278 …giant thermos jug" was allegedly transported from Fort Worth AAF to Wright Field. $ ^{38} $ This description…
- p. 280 designs on it." $ ^{41} $ Furthermore, the Fort Worth Army Airfield Weather Officer, Irving Newton, who was…
- p. 283 1
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Photographs of Balloon Debris
July 9, 1947
- p. 549 …Similarly, the Fort Worth Sub-Committee established a procedure for flights made within the Fort Worth…
- p. 616 …Air Coordinating Committee, Fort Worth Regional Airspace Subcommittee. Subject: Obstructions to air navigation...43
5. Memorandum…
- p. 655 …5/15/47 Office of the Secretary Fort Worth Sub-Committee on Air Space Civil Aeronautics…
- p. 715 …Arrived in Fort Worth about 9 EDST. Off again to Big Springs, Texas, where forced to…
second cluster flight, provision was also made to release balloons if the train rose above 40,000 ft. The flying line in the second train was approximately 500 ft. long.
This cluster flight is tedious to prepare and difficult to launch, and is a greater hazard to aircraft than the plastic balloons will be because of the great length of the cluster train.
## III e) Apparatus and Equipment.
A detailed explanation is not given on the equipment of the Cluster Flight. However, a layout sketch is enclosed in the appendix. An important piece of new apparatus for this project is the ballast valve or dribbler, a photograph and drawings of which appears in the appendix. It consists of a special diaphragm which operates a needle valve. Normally the valve is closed as the diaphragm is open to the air before the balloon reaches the desired altitude. This allows the pressure inside the diaphragm to be the same as the outside pressure. The diaphragm is sealed electrically by the baroswitch of the flight radiosonde when the balloon train passes a predetermined altitude. Whenever the balloon train descends below this preset altitude, the increase of pressure on the sealed diaphragm causes the needle valve to be opened. The greater the excess in pressure on the diaphragm the more ballast there is released through the valve. Thus a proportional restoring force is applied to the train. The ballast that is to be used is a petroleum cut boiling from $300^{\circ}$ to $400^{\circ}\mathrm{F}$ with a density of about .78 and a minimum change of viscosity with temperature. Two different type fluids that may meet this specification are the Army type compass fluid About this file
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