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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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1020 millibars) against percentage of the turns as read on the nomogram. The lowest pressure reading is numbered as read and succeeding pressures are plotted in a continuous ascending series. When the pressure reading reached the first overlap on the reference, it is called 100 percent; the second overlap is 200 percent and so on until the last overlap which may be 1200 or 1300 percent.
(c) Pack the modulator and insert it inside the transmitter box. The modulator should be protected from extreme cold since the motor operation becomes erratic when the temperature reached $ 3 0^{\circ} $ to $ 4 0^{\circ} \mathrm{C} $ below zero. A box or paper cover over the modulator will keep particles of insulation and dirt from the moving parts.
(d) When the entire assembly has been made and inflation of the balloon is about to begin, the transmitter and motor should be turned on and reception of the signal tested. If any serious trouble appears, the modulator should be replaced by another calibrated modulator since any work on the instrument will probably change the calibration.
During the flight, radio static and noise will appear on the Brush record as pips which may resemble the transmitted signals and with increasing distance or weakening transmitter the noise will finally completely obscure the pressure record. Careful tuning of the receiver will prolong the record as long as possible. When tuning the receiver, the sensitivity control of the Brush amplifier should be turned to the least sensitive position since any sudden change in the tuning may throw the pen off its supports and damage its glass tip.
When the flight reception is completed the record is evaluated exactly as in the evaluation of the calibration record--using the same nomogram. However, since the instrument is subjected to different atmospheric conditions, the motor speed may vary suddenly, giving false values for the pressure. These values may be detected by carefully observing the rate of rotation of the motor, which is measurable by the distance between the reference marks. If there is a sudden 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.