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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.

  • 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 ## TO: NND760168 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…
gears or poor alignment of the rotating cylinder. The motor gears may be cleaned with carbon tetrachloride and a small clean brush. If the trouble is due to misalignment, the instrument should not be used since this will affect the rotation at a non-uniform rate and thus destroy the entire accuracy of the record.

(b) Calibrate the instrument. The following equipment is required for the calibration:

Vacuum pump

Bell jar

Base plate with at lest 4 electrical leads Manometer

Tape recorder

The vacuum pump should be capable of evacuating the bell jar to a pressure lower than that to be reached by the balloon in flight. A pressure of ten millibars, corresponding to about 100,000 feet elevation is usually a good minimum.

Four wires are necessary to conduct the six volts to the motor and to transmit the reference and pressure signals. The wires must pass out of the bell jar through an air-tight seal in the base plate. The base plate also needs a tube leading to the manometer and a tube to the vacuum pump. It is advisable to use two separate tubes rather than placing the manometer lead in the same line as the pump lead in order to obtain the pressure in the bell jar rather than that in the pumping line.

In operation the negative line of the battery leads is used as the ground connection of the output signal.

A tape recorder such as the Brush Development Co. model BL-902 oscillograph and amplifier BL-905, is needed to record the signal both during calibration and during the balloon flight. The Brush recorder is used at present and the discussion of the operation will be made in terms of the characteristics of this instrument. When using the slow speed of the recorder, which feeds the paper at the rate of 30 centimeters per minute, the distance between successive reference marks will be 30 to 40 centimeters de-

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