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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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Launch of Project MOGUL neoprene balloons, Alamogordo AAF, NM, June 1947. While awaiting the experimental polyethylene balloons, NYU engineers utilized long trains of the smaller neoprene balloons as a stopgap method of placing their acoustic sensors in the upper atmosphere. These balloon trains consisted of a variety of equipment and measured more than 600 feet long (see Atch 25). Photo Collection of Albert P. Crary. Standard 350-gram meteorological weather balloons in the North Hangar at Alamogordo AAF for use by Project MOGUL in June 1947. Although the balloons themselves were common, the remainder of the equipment on the MOGUL trains was experimental or had been recently placed in service (see Atch 25). It would not be unusual for individuals uninvolved in the development of these devices not to recognize them. Photo Courtesy of C.B. Moore.
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