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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.
“Headquarters”32 pages
- p. 3 # THE ROSWELL REPORT
# Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert
Headquarters United States Air Force…
- p. 8 Clinical Investigations and Life Sciences Division, Headquarters Air Force Medical Operating Agency, Bolling AFB, DC; John…
- p. 25 …the disc had been "flown to higher headquarters." That same story also reported that a Roswell…
- p. 27 …These locations include Fort Worth, Texas, the home of the Eighth Air Force Headquarters; possibly Sandia…
- p. 61 # DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
MEMORANDUM FOR SAF/AA
FROM: AF…
- p. 65 …DuBose says officials at the Headquarters of the Eighth Air Force were directed to tell the…
- p. 70 # DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WASHINGTON DC
MEMORANDUM FOR SAF/AAZ…
- p. 86 HEADQUARTERS
509TH BOMB GP (VH)
ROSSELL AFFY AIR FIELD
ROSSELL, NEW MEXICO
GENERAL ORDERS)
NUMBER 9…
- p. 87 …Arner per Paragraph 3, Special Order, #139, Headquarters, Roswell Army Air Field, dated 18 July 1947…
- p. 89 …Arner per paragraph 3, SO #139, Headquarters, this station, dated 18 July 1947. 1st Lt. Lewis…
- p. 90 …Colonel Loberg, Headquarters, Eighth Air Force, arrived this date to coordinate with S-3 and check…
- p. 91 …Boatright, Headquarters, Eighth Air Force, arrived to coordinate with Statistical Control on cost analysis.
16 July…
- p. 110 # HEADQUARTERS, ARMY AIR FORCES WASHINGTON
SUBJECT: Issuance of Orders
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Commanding General Air Material Command…
- p. 119 …where we haven't squadron or group headquarters should take their people away.
1:55 P…
- p. 131 …I did not make a report of this incident to my headquarters since I felt that…
- p. 136 …700 CIC was the CIC Headquarters.
- p. 137 …700 CIC was the Headquarters?
SC: Yes, I don't think I even made a report…
- p. 138 …I think this was taken at the Headquarters at Carswell.
RW: Yeah, that's right. That…
- p. 139 …I took it to 8th Air Force Headquarters, General Ramey was excited; they were going to…
- p. 148 …I don't even want 700 CIC Headquarters to know we wasted our time on it…
- p. 149 …And if anybody from headquarters CIC came in I'm positive they would have checked in…
- p. 192 …I was assigned, believe it or not, to Headquarters, Air Force... I still have the Headquarters…
- p. 230 …on the basis of orders out of Headquarters Army Air Force.
Q: While you were operating…
- p. 231 …These are the pictures taken in General Ramey's office, 8th Air Force Headquarters by a…
- p. 246 …Then after I left the headquarters of ARDC in Baltimore, I spent four years at the…
- p. 269 …debris be flown to Eighth Air Force Headquarters at Fort Worth AAF, TX, for his personal…
- p. 278 …Andrews AAF was headquarters of the Army Air Forces Weather Service. It is also interesting to…
- p. 306 …this local headquarters of the AMC under the Walton Laboratories group, who have headquarters at Red…
- p. 325 HEADQUARTERS FITZWILLIAM FORWARD c/o Commander, Task Group 7.2 APO 187, c/o Postmaster San…
- p. 327 …Reports of results were made to Headquarters FITZWILLIAM FORWARD and to AFMSW-1.
Results of the…
- p. 855 …Brady, all from Headquarters. Eighth Air Force, arrived here for a conference and inspecting and coordination…
- p. 873 …Marcellus Duffy eliminated it and several others from the project when Headquarters U.S. Army Air…
## 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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