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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. 193 …overhead and followed the balloons out to sea. I have no idea about the results that…
  • p. 200 …the regular 334 that we had at sea level. From that they could deduce the temperature…
  • p. 243 …actually located on the jurisdictional lines between Sea Girt and Springlake, New Jersey. It was an…
  • p. 244 …The Sea Girt Inn? A: Exactly. That's where John had his office, and I was…
  • p. 320 …alone is about 24,000 miles at sea level, and about 4500 miles at 45,000…
  • p. 325 …twenty-five (25) feet at their largest sea-level diameter. The sonic unit was a combination…
  • p. 378 …per hour when one-fifth inflated at sea level). One other type of balloon which has…
  • p. 402 …Let us, then, compare the rate of leakage at any given altitude with leakage at sea…
  • p. 404 …The leakage at any altitude may be expressed as a function of leakage at sea level…
  • p. 405 Comparing rate of leakage at 40,000 feet with leakage at sea level: $$ \frac {L _ {4…
  • p. 407 …If a 20-foot diameter balloon $ \frac{1}{1 0} $ full were tested at sea level…
  • p. 408 …At sea level this is equivalent to 5.32 gm/hr. for a 20-foot diameter…
  • p. 414 …Using the rules of subsonic aerodynamics, Picard suggests that air at sea level escaping at 1333…
  • p. 415 …air at sea level (lb./ft. $ ^{3} $ ) 14.7 = pressure of air at sea level (psi…
  • p. 432 …to about 20 millibars and increased to sea-level pressure at different temperatures. The most comprehensive…
  • p. 563 …The height above mean sea level as determined from pressure measurements used in this work with…
  • p. 644 …point at which the radiosonde reaches the sea surface. ## 2. Earlier attempts There have been numerous…
  • p. 645 …The balloons floated between the surface and 30,000 ft above sea level; those which reached…
  • p. 704 …Met Gifford who has 90' sea rescue boat this project is planning to use. Stayed at…
  • p. 719 …Worzel working on gravity at sea. Saw Geo Woollard and the Ryders. Woollard after Guggenheim fellowship…
  • p. 779 …the launching site is markedly different from sea level, a shift in this curve is needed…
  • p. 817 …balloon at all times with respect to sea level. On this curve also it is customary…
  • p. 825 …The height above mean sea level as determined from pressure measurements used in this work with…
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

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