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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…
## c. 1. GENERAL WORK ACCOMPLISHED
Field tests were conducted at Alamogordo Army Air Base during the week of June 1, using clusters of meteorological balloons. The primary object of these tests was to perfect handling and launching techniques for large flights and to check the operation of the various altitude controlling devices developed for this project. At the same time, the tests afforded the opportunity to carry aloft payloads of Watson Laboratories equipment. In general, while the flights were successful in the sense of carrying Watson Laboratory gear aloft for an extended period of time, difficulties and material failures encountered served to emphasize the unsatisfactory characteristics of meteorological balloon clusters. A technical report under preparation will contain discussion of the flights.
After the return from Alamogordo, the remainder of the month was occupied with preparations for a second field trip to Alamogordo Army Air Base for tests to be conducted in July.
Twenty-five seven-foot diameter 1 mil. thick polyethylene balloons were received from General Mills. One each fifteen-foot diameter 8 mil. thick polyethylene balloons was received from H. A. Smith, Inc.
A seven-man balloon crew departed for Alamogordo Army Air Base on June 27 to make the second series of launchings there.
The plastic ballast reservoir used for the first flights in New Mexico was too fragile to take launching stresses. An aluminum reservoir, mounted on legs containing a built-in filter was designed and a supplier was located. The capacity of the new reservoir is 5 gallons (30#) though it will weigh only 2 pounds. It is believed that the aluminum reservoirs if recovered may be used repeatedly.
## 2. Specific Problems
The greatest problem encountered during the field tests at Alamogordo was the unpredictable and highly variable effect of superheat on meteorological balloons. The unpredictable increase in lift of the cluster under the rays of the sun was as much as 25% higher than the initial lift. This in several instances resulted in the inability of altitude control balloon cut-offs to stop the ascent of the balloon train at the desired altitude.
The extreme low temperatures encountered at high altitudes apparently has considerable effect on the operation of electrical equipment used in altitude control.
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