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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…
MEMORANDUM FOR SAF/AAZ

FROM: HQ AFOSI/HO

226 Duncan Ave Suite 2100

Bolling AFB, DC 20332-0001

SUBJECT: GAO Review on Records Management Procedures (Your memo 16 Mar 94)

1. This is to inform you that on 19 December 1975, the HQ AFOSI History office transferred two cubic feet of documents consisting of directives and policy guidance relating to the conduct of investigations of the type GAO is reviewing and all investigative files covering the period of 1948 to 1968 to the National Archives. You will find attached a copy of the Standard Form 135, Record Transmittal and Receipt, signed by the Assistant Chief, Military Projects Branch, National Archives, on that date (atch 1). My predecessor, who was instrumental in transferring these records informed me that these were the only records that AFOSI held. Currently, anyone who requests information on the subject from HQ AFOSI/Information Release is directed to the National Archives. Further, you will find attached a copy of my input to a staff meeting of 8 February 1989 in which I noted that 40 years earlier a meeting was held in the Southwest U.S. concerning subject (atch 2). At that time, District 17, Kirtland AFB, NM, was designated to be responsible for collection and reporting on aerial phenomena. That is about the only reference I've found in AFOSI historical files relating to the subject for the period of 1948 to 1953. AFOSI did not become operational until 1 August 1948, so we have no histories dealing with events before that time.

2. If you have any further questions, please contact me at DSN 297-5725 or Commercial (202)767-5725.

EDWARD C. MISHLER Historian

Attachments:

1. Copy of SF 135, 19 Dec 75

2. Copy of HO Input, 8 Feb 89 Staff Meeting

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