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25 Roswell and Project Mogul 25 Roswell and Project Mogul The Roswell Incident The Roswell Incident and Project Mogul and Project Mogul Continued from Page 24 Continued from Page 24 Brazel's daughter, Bessie Brazel Schreiber, in a 1979 interview conducted by landed. explosion of Krakatoa in 1883. In one of their author William Moore (no relation to Charles B. When Moore used the Weather Service flights, he said the NYU crew attempted Moore), described some aluminum ring-shaped wind data and NYU altitude information to (without success) to detect explosions from the objects in the debris that looked like pipe intake simulate the probable paths of the flights with British destruction of German installations on collars or the necks of balloons. (The mention recorded ground tracks (Flights 5 and 6), his the island of Helgoland (off the north German of the rings appears in William Moore's results agreed quite reasonably with the coast) in April 1948. While UFO proponents transcript of the interview, but was not included measured balloon paths--Flight 5 drifted mainly allege a lack of contemporary references to in his book The Roswell Incident.) She to the east, landing near Roswell, while Flight 6 "Project Mogul Balloon Flights," Moore says estimated that they were about 4 inches around, took a more southwesterly route. Moore then the project was so compartmentalized that such and said she could put her hand through them. extended his analysis to Flight 4, the Roswell references simply may not exist. Any mention Charles Moore points out that Flight 4 carried candidate. He used the wind data for June 4, of these flights will instead be labeled as NYU several 3-inch-diameter aluminum rings for 1947, and assumed the flight reached altitudes constant-level balloon research. (Continued on assisting with the launching of the balloon train, comparable to those of the subsequent two Page 26) as well as larger rings used to hold the flights (which were made with very similar sonobuoys. These were cut from cylindrical balloon trains). tubing stock, and then chamfered to prevent Moore's analysis indicates that after damage to the ropes. Flight 4 lifted off from Alamogordo, it probably Sheridan Cavitt, the CIC (Counter- ascended while traveling northeast (toward Intelligence Corps) officer who accompanied Arabela), then turned toward the northwest Major Jesse Marcel to the debris field, during its passage through the stratosphere, and described a black box in the wreckage. Moore then descended back to earth in a generally says the NYU crew routinely packed batteries northeast direction. Moore's calculated balloon for the acoustic equipment in black boxes. path is quite consistent with a landing at the There has been some speculation that the black Foster ranch, approximately 85 miles northeast box might have been a radiosonde, but Moore of the Alamogordo launch site and 60 miles pointed out that radiosondes are usually white to northwest of Roswell. Furthermore, the debris prevent absorption of heat. was strewn along the ground at a southwest-to- On June 4, 1947, Flight 4 was launched, northeast angle (as reported by Major Jesse and tracked as far as Arabela, New Mexico, Marcel); this angle is entirely consistent with only 17 miles from the location of the debris Moore's analysis. field on the Foster ranch. Flight 4 was still aloft Charles B. Moore has been repeatedly when the batteries ran down, and contact was criticized in the UFO literature for changing lost. Brazel reported that he found the debris on some of his earlier statements. He was the ranch on June 14, 1947, although most UFO interviewed for William Moore's book on the proponents put the time of this discovery as a Roswell Incident. After hearing Bill Moore's few weeks later, in early July. Brazel didn't take description of the wreckage (including details of the debris into Roswell until July 7, 1947, by his supposed 10-inch furrows running some 500 own account; this date is disputed as well. feet), Charlie Moore responded by saying: Recently, Charles Moore has developed "Based on the description you gave me, I think In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada a brand-new line of evidence even further that could not have been our balloon." Balloon People Listen To supporting a link between the Roswell Incident trains like Flight 4 were far too light to make People Listen To The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show and Project Mogul. UFO researcher Kevin large furrows in the ground. The issue is not that The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show Randle recently provided Moore with National Charles Moore said the wreckage couldn't have with with Weather Service wind data for early June 1947. been a balloon--it's that he said his flights Rob McConnell Rob McConnell Moore, who has lived and breathed atmospheric couldn't have plowed the alleged "furrows." On on physics most of his adult life, analyzed this data another note, Moore and other Mogul on AM 580 CFRA in detail. His analysis deals with three NYU participants originally thought the debris Brazel AM 580 CFRA flights : Flight 4 (June 4, 1947), Flight 5 (June found must have been from one of NYU's 5), and Flight 6 (June 7). The Weather Service polyethylene balloon flights from early July wind data are compatible with what is called a 1947. He held this opinion until just a couple of baroclinic weather system moving through the years ago. These large, transparent polyethylene area. As this "trough aloft" slowly passes by, the balloons were used for the first time ever in the winds aloft will shift from blowing toward the summer of 1947 and would have looked strange northeast, then toward the east, and then toward even to experienced balloon watchers. the southeast. At very high altitudes, however, However, after seeing the reports and this type of system produces high-level winds in photographs from 1947 for the first time, the upper troposphere at cross directions to Charles Moore realized that Flight 4 was a those at lower levels. Furthermore, the much better candidate for the Foster ranch prevailing winds in the stratosphere during the debris than a polyethylene balloon. So he has summer months blow toward the west, while changed his opinions on the incident, but only those in the transition region just above the because better data became available. tropopause blew toward the northwest during Moore's presentation included the early part of June 1947. For example, Flight fascinating details on the background of Project 5 proceeded mainly east as it rose through the Mogul. He noted that the discovery of the troposphere; when it entered the stratosphere, acoustic "duct" between the troposphere and the however, it was carried to the northwest. After stratosphere came about as a result of a World some balloons burst and Flight 5 descended, it War II era analysis of globally propagated again headed in an easterly direction until it sound waves produced by the volcanic