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14 Roswell Incident and Project Mogul 14 Roswell Incident and Project Mogul Roswell Incident and paper, and strangely marked tape--is similar to the reinforcing tape with the pinkish-purple Roswell Incident and Project Mogul material used for the radar reflectors. When flower designs. daughter, Bessie Brazel Project Mogul Brazel's Warrant Officer Irving Newton saw the debris in “A Realistic View” General Ramey's office, he recognized it as Schreiber, in a 1979 interview conducted by “A Realistic View” author William Moore (no relation to Charles B. pieces of a radar target. Moore points out that Continued from Page 13 the Ramey photographs show parts of more than Moore), described some aluminum ring-shaped Continued from Page 13 one reflector; Flight 4 contained three Signal objects in the debris that looked like pipe intake Moore, professor emeritus of physics at Corps ML-307B RAWIN targets. collars or the necks of balloons. (The mention New Mexico Institute of Mining and Many witnesses of the debris described of the rings appears in William Moore's Technology in Socorro, was a graduate student tape with flower designs or hieroglyphics on it. transcript of the interview, but was not included working for NYU back in 1947. The Mogul Moore recalls that the reinforcing tape used on in his book The Roswell Incident.) She project was so classified and compartmentalized NYU targets had curious markings. "There were estimated that they were about 4 inches around, that even Moore didn't know the project's name about four of us who were involved in this, and and said she could put her hand through them. until Robert Todd informed him of it a couple of all remember that our targets had sort of a Charles Moore points out that Flight 4 carried years ago. The unclassified purpose of the stylized, flowerlike design. I have prepared, in several 3-inch-diameter aluminum rings for project was to develop constant-level balloons my life, probably more than a hundred of these assisting with the launching of the balloon train, for meteorological purposes. targets for flight. And every time I have as well as larger rings used to hold the Its classified purpose was to try to prepared one of these targets, I have always sonobuoys. These were cut from cylindrical develop a way to monitor possible Soviet wondered what the purpose of that tape marking tubing stock, and then chamfered to prevent nuclear detonations with the use of low- was. But . . . a major named John Peterson, damage to the ropes. frequency acoustic microphones placed at high laughed . . . and said 'What do you expect when Sheridan Cavitt, the CIC altitudes. No other means of monitoring (Counter-Intelligence Corps) officer the nuclear activities of a closed country who accompanied Major Jesse Marcel like the USSR was yet available, and the to the debris field, described a black box project was given a high priority. One of in the wreckage. Moore says the NYU the NYU tasks was the development of crew routinely packed batteries for the constant-level balloons for placing the acoustic equipment in black boxes. acoustic microphones aloft. After some There has been some speculation that preliminary flights in Bethlehem, the black box might have been a Pennsylvania, in April 1947, which radiosonde, but Moore pointed out that failed due to high winds, the project radiosondes are usually white to prevent moved to New Mexico. absorption of heat. In June and early July 1947, On June 4, 1947, Flight 4 was numerous NYU balloon flights were launched, and tracked as far as Arabela, launched from Alamogordo Army Air New Mexico, only 17 miles from the Field in New Mexico. Some of these location of the debris field on the Foster flights consisted of very long trains ranch. Flight 4 was still aloft when the containing up to two dozen neoprene batteries ran down, and contact was lost. sounding balloons, having a total length Brazel reported that he found the debris of more than 600 feet. on the ranch on June 14, 1947, although Moore makes a strong case for most UFO proponents put the time of the hypothesis that NYU Flight #4, this discovery as a few weeks later, in which he helped launch on June 4, 1947, early July. Brazel didn't take the debris was the source of the debris Brazel into Roswell until July 7, 1947, by his found on the Foster ranch, and therefore own account; this date is disputed as the source of the "Roswell Incident" well. itself. Many of the materials used in Recently, Charles Moore has Flight 4 bear striking similarities to developed a brand-new line of evidence pieces of the Roswell debris. A diagram even further supporting a link between of an earlier, similar flight, Flight #2 the Roswell Incident and Project (launched April 18, 1947, from Mogul. UFO researcher Kevin Randle Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) shows the recently provided Moore with National balloon train. No such diagram is Weather Service wind data for early available for Flight 4; since no altitude data you get your targets made by a toy factory?'" June 1947. Moore, who has lived and breathed were obtained for it, it was not included in The radar targets contained small atmospheric physics most of his adult life, formal NYU reports. However, Moore says the eyelets. Moore showed the NMSR audience a analyzed this data in detail. His analysis deals configuration for Flight 4 was quite similar to similar target with the eyelets. In an article in with three NYU flights : Flight 4 (June 4, 1947), that shown. The large octahedral objects at top the Roswell Daily Record on July 9, 1947, Flight 5 (June 5), and Flight 6 (June 7). The left and bottom middle are radar reflectors, rancher Brazel described the debris as having no Weather Service wind data are compatible with which were used for tracking. Several small strings or wire, but as having eyelets for some what is called a baroclinic weather system aluminum rings for handling the lines are sort of attachment. moving through the area. As this "trough aloft" indicated; the "payload" (a sonobuoy) was While many UFO proponents claim the slowly passes by, the winds aloft will shift from supported by slightly larger rings. The cluster of wreckage shown in General Ramey's office was blowing toward the northeast, then toward the neoprene sounding balloons extended for just a weather balloon switched for the "real east, and then toward the southeast. At very high hundreds of feet in flight. debris," Moore pointed out that the radar targets altitudes, however, this type of system produces The debris Brazel picked up--and which used by NYU were unlike anything flown in high-level winds in the upper troposphere at was later taken to Fort Worth, Texas, for New Mexico before and that "they were not cross directions to those at lower levels. inspection by Brigadier General Roger Ramey, available in Fort Worth to be substituted for the the Air Force commander there--matches NYU debris in General Ramey's office." Warrant PROJECT MOGUL Continued on Page 15 Flight 4 in several different ways. Some of the Officer Newton was able to recognize the debris debris consisted of patches of a smelly, smoky in General Ramey's office because he happened gray, rubber-like material, which is consistent to have used an early version of the same targets THE ‘X’ ZONE RADIO & TV SHOW with the neoprene balloons used in NYU Flight while serving as a weatherman in Okinawa. The www.xzoneradio.com 4. Much of the Roswell debris--sticks, metallic earlier-model targets Newton used did not have www.xzonetv.com