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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.
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3 5 9 \mathrm {x} \frac {2 7 3 . 2 - 5 9 . 5}{2 7 3 . 2} \mathrm {x} \frac {1 0 1 3 . 3}{1 2 0} * 2 3 7 0 \mathrm {f t}. ^ {3} (\mathrm {t h e m e a n m o l a r v o l u m e} \mathrm {a t} 1 5 \mathrm {k m} \mathrm {f o r} \mathrm {J a n}. 1 9 4 3 \mathrm {o v e r L a k e h u r s t}, \mathrm {N}. \mathrm {J}.)
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This volume data was computed for all lovels given. Data was "borrowed" from other stations in the same latitude to piece out the 20 km soundings as needed.
II. Lifts were computed for various molor volumes for balloons between 7.5 and 75 feet diameter in the following manner:
Given
To find the lift of a $ 2 0^{\mathrm{1 D}} $ balloon at an altitude where the molar volume is 1000 ft.3:
Volume 20 ft.D Balloon = 4190 ft. $ ^{3} $
$$
\mathrm {L i f t / B a l l o o n} \frac {\mathrm {B a l l o o n V o l u m e X (D i f f e r e n c e i n m o c u l a r w g t s . o f a i r # h g n}}{\mathrm {M o l a r V o l u m e a t a g i v e n a l t i t u d e}}
$$
or
$$
\text {T o t a l L i f t o f g a s i n} \# / \mathrm {B a l l o o n} = \frac {\mathrm {f t .} ^ {3} / \mathrm {B a l l o o n X (\# / \mathrm {m o l})}}{\mathrm {f t .} ^ {3} / \mathrm {m o l}}
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for the 20 foot diameter balloon:
$$
\mathrm {L i f t} = \frac {4 1 9 0 (2 8 . 7 6 - 2 . 1 1)}{1 0 0 0} = 1 1 1. 7 \# \mathrm {l i f t f r o m a 2 0 f o o t d i a m e t e r}
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The lifts were plotted against molar volume for each size balloon. The altitudes corresponding to various molar volumes for Lakehurst and Albuquerque in January and in August 1943 as computed above were plotted on the left margin of the chart.
The family of curves was plotted on log paper and is included in the appendix with the basic sounding data. 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.