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Black Vault compilation, pp. 91-93

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This Black Vault compilation contains a September 1997 reply from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense to John Greenewald's FOIA request, enclosing its UFO records. The enclosures include a Navy information sheet dismissing the Philadelphia Experiment and an Air Force UFO fact sheet listing 12,618 Project Blue Book sightings, 701 of them unidentified. They also include the National Academy of Sciences review endorsing the University of Colorado report and the concluding pages of a 1994 Air Force Roswell report attributing the wreckage to Project MOGUL.

  • p. 6 …Later the name was changed to Project Grudge, and in 1953 it became Project Blue Book…
  • p. 29 …Later the name w&3 changed to Project Grudge, and in 1953, it became Project Blue…
  • p. 97 …of Project Blue Book, the Air Force program for UFO investigation started in 1947. The decision…
  • p. 108 …with that of the components of a Project MOGUL balloon train. MOGUL reports and documents that…
  • p. 111 …Records were located and thoroughly explored concerning a then-Top Secret balloon project, designed to attempt…
  • p. 113 • USAF in September, 1947, the USAF inherited equipment, personnel, records, policies, and procedures from the AAF…
  • p. 115 …EVOLUTION OF THE EVENT FROM 1947 TO THE PRESENT General Ramey's press conference and rancher…
  • p. 117 …This included directing searches at current offices where special or unusual projects might be carried out…
  • p. 121 …USAF records showed that between June 24, 1947, and July 28, 1947, there were five crashes…
  • p. 127 …Its name was Project MOGUL (Atch 19). Project MOGUL was a then-sensitive, classified project, whose…
  • p. 128 …These interviews confirmed that Project MOGUL was a compartmented, sensitive effort. The NYU group was responsible…
  • p. 129 …It is very probable that this Top Secret project balloon train (Flight 4), made up of…
  • p. 130 …Trakowski provided specific details on Project MOGUL and described how the security for.the program was…
  • p. 131 In order to provide a more detailed discussion of the specifics of Project MOGUL d how…
  • p. 134 …Copy of Vandenberg's Appointment Book and Diary, July 7-9, 1947 16. July 9, 1947…
who are said to have known all about MOGUL, apparently did not compare the
descriptions of the suspect debris with that of the components of a Project MOGUL
balloon train. MOGUL reports and documents that contain descriptions, illustrations, and
photographs have been publicly available for at least twenty years. Had the researchers
completed even a cursory comparison, they would have found that the materials were
suspiciously similar; detailed examination would have shown them to be one and the
- same. In the final analysis, it appears these individuals have pursued the convenient red
herring provided by Roswell Anny Airfield, while the real explanation lay just over the
Sacramento Mountains at the MOGUL launch site in Alamogordo.
This repon explains the events that transpired in and near Roswell, .New Mexico, in the
summer of 1947. It is based on written documentation and first-hand accounts of
participants, all of which are provided here in their entirety. While these answers are not
as titillating as tales of uneanhly craft and creatures, it is a fascinating story nonetheless.
JAMES McANDREW, 1ST LT, USAFR
Declassification and Review Officer
SAFIAAZD
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