“Moors”60+ pages
- p. 6 …Special thanks go to Athelstan and Kathy Spilhaus, Charles
and Wilma Moore, Col. Albert and Jean…
- p. 12 …June 3, 1994
21. Statement, Charles B. Moore, June 8, 1994, and Hieroglyphic and Balloon
Train…
- p. 13 …8, 1946
10. Hieroglyphic Drawing, Charles B. Moore, August 28, 1992
11. Alamogordo News, "Fantasy of…
- p. 14 …F. Spilhaus, C.S. Schneider, C.B. Moore, "Controlled-Altitude
Free Balloons," Journal of Meteorology, Vol…
- p. 15 …Trakowski and Dr. James Peoples
Charles B. Moore
U.S. Army GR-3 Sound Ranging Set…
- p. 18 …contributions to Antarctic research; and Charles B. Moore, Project
Engineer at NYU and an atmospheric physicist…
- p. 29 …crashed UFO. Similarly, two authors, William L.
Moore and Charles Berlitz, also engaged in research which…
- p. 31 …The Roswell Incident
(1980) by William Moore and Charles Berlitz; "Crashed Saucers: Evidence in
Search of…
- p. 41 …Additionally, transcripts of the interview with Moore and Trakowski are also
included (equipment malfunctioned during the…
- p. 42 …The interview with Professor Moore indicated
that these gaps were the unlogged "service flights."
Professor Moore…
- p. 43 …The material and a "black box," described by Cavitt, was, in Moore's
scientific opinion, most…
- p. 44 …device. These
persons included Professor Charles B. Moore, Robert Todd, and coincidentally,
Karl Pflock, a researcher…
- p. 45 …An actual
device was also obtained for study with the assistance of Professor Moore. (The
example…
- p. 48 …Signed Sworn Statement of Moore, June 8, 1994
22. Signed Sworn Statement of Trakowski, June 29…
- p. 171 …Berlitz and Moore?
MC: Now, you see, he was here at the house. I've heard…
- p. 185 …Was it with Berlitz and Moore?
SC: Our son sent this book to us.
RW: This…
- p. 201 …I recommend you check with Charlie Moore for
those details. Many of the projects I just…
- p. 203 21
Statement, with Hieroglyphic and
Balloon Train Drawings
Charles B. Moore
June 8, 1994
- p. 205 …NM
C/3!_4
I, Charles B Moore, hereby state that Jeffrey Buder, was identified as…
- p. 206 …it was in about 1980 that William Moore contacted me and asked questions about
balloons making…
- p. 208 …saw one of these targets more than
20 years ago . )
c.a. Moore
August 28, 1992
- p. 213 …Charlie Moore was primarily responsible for
development of the constant level balloons for lifting the instrument…
- p. 215 …Col Jeffrey Butler and 1st Lt James
McAndrew with Professor Charles
B. Moore
June 8, 1994
- p. 217 Transcript from 8 June 94, Interview with
Professor Charles Moore
(A) Professor Charles Moore
Project Engineer…
- p. 218 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
you've talked with also. Colonel Weaver talked with Sheridan
Cavitt…
- p. 219 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
not leave any creases. This material looks like it would almost…
- p. 220 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
Q: we have tried to reach Colonel Trakowski, and he has…
- p. 221 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 5
A: .•. much of which we can copy and make it…
- p. 222 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 6
Q: w.w. Brazel mentions eyelets which appear in the…
- p. 223 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
A: A guy named Sam Kay formed a company and it…
- p. 224 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
A: That's about two mil polyethylene here.
Q: Obviously, you…
- p. 225 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
At the same time, then Captain Fletcher was assigned •••
Duffy had…
- p. 226 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
strings from these four corners. Obviously, trying to take
something that…
- p. 227 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 11
balloons out of a Goodyear film called pliofilm. It was…
- p. 228 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 12
this manual in '44. I was commissioned in September of…
- p. 229 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 13
A: No, we didn't.
Q: Not a letter or…
- p. 230 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
Q: The early nylon line, would it have degraded, such as…
- p. 231 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 15
June 4th, "Out to Tulerosa Range and fired charges between…
- p. 232 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 16
have ambiguities. You don't know if it went up…
- p. 233 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 17
A: What the wind did.
The description that Brazel gives…
- p. 234 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 18
executive officer of a flight detachment at Newark Airport. I…
- p. 235 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
Q: He was unsuccessful?
A: He was unsuccessful.
Q: What method…
- p. 236 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
Q: How did you come in possession of it?
A: Todd…
- p. 237 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 21
It's of interest, in the Holloman report there's…
- p. 238 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 22
A: No. we were the balloonists. This was all ground…
- p. 239 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 23
Here's a nice paper that came through courtesy of…
- p. 240 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
Q: No.
A: He worked for a Tracer lab and is…
- p. 241 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
A: There's a gray area here. I was certainly aware…
- p. 242 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
A: Oh, yeah. I visited people in Washington.
Q: Just for…
- p. 243 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
Q: But you had them available for study, but you didn…
- p. 244 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 28
Q: so is that pretty much maybe a condition of…
- p. 245 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
Q: The service flights were which ones?
A: The ones carrying…
- p. 246 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
"Excluded are those two tests' special gear in launches which
were…
- p. 247 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 31
Q: so you made your plan in New York to…
- p. 248 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/~/94 32
from north hangar and from Cloudcroft for awhile. Nothing from
Roswell…
- p. 249 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
A: By a pressure switch.
Q: were those tracked? Was there…
- p. 250 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 34
miles. Then he had Don Edmondson went to Silver City…
- p. 251 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 35
A: Brush recorders. (Strip charge) recorders feeding out
at high…
- p. 252 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
Brazel gives the impression that it is the smoky rubber of…
- p. 253 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
A: As I say, I find it hard to think that…
shrouded in secrecy, some of its operations obviously could not. The deployment of giant
trains of balloons--over thirty research balloons and experimental sensors strung together
and stretching more than 600 feet-could be neither disguised nor hidden from the public.
Moreover, operational necessity required that these balloons be launched during daylight
hours. It was therefore not surprising that these balloons were often mistaken for UFOs.
In fact, MOGUL recovery crews often listened to broadcasts of UFO reports to assist them
in their tracking operations. Additionally, the balloons were unsteerable, leading to such
amusing events as the one reported by the New York Times in which a secret MOGUL
balloon "floated ·blithely over the rooftops of Flatbush . . . causing general public
excitement ... before it came to rest on top of a [Brooklyn] tavem."2 In another episode,
MOGUL balloon recovery technicians directed a B-17 bomber, which was tracking one
of the tests, to buzz and scare off a curious oil rig crew that was about to "capture" a
balloon train that had fallen near Roswell. The ruse worked. However, too much activity
was going on for the project to remain completely hidden. A MOGUL project officer later
noted, "It was like having an elephant in your backyard . . . and hoping no one would
notice." 3 These occurrences were typical, leading the recovery crews to describe
themselves as Balloonatics, due to the predicaments in which the wandering balloons
sometimes placed them, but the information the balloons were attempting to obtain was
vital.
To attempt to limit unauthorized disclosure, the Air Force employed a security mechanism
known as compartmentation. Compartmentation controlled access to classified information
by dispersing portions of the research among several facilities and institutions. Each
participating entity received only enough information necessary to accomplish its assigned
tasks. In the case of MOGUL, only a small circle of Air Force officers received the
intimate details that linked together these unrelated research projects. The use of
compartmentation along with strict enforcement of the need to know enabled MOGUL to
remain a secret-despite its obvious security difficulties-and to remain unevaluated for
many years as the cause of the Roswell Incident.
The issue of compartmentation was significant because some UFO researchers assert that
the persons who recovered the MOGUL equipment, members of the 509th Bombardment
Group stationed at Roswell Army Airfield, should have been able to recognize the debris
collected at the crash site as that of a research balloon. Although members of the 509th
possessed high-level clearances, they were not privy to the existence of MOGUL; their job
was to deliver nuclear weapons, not to detect them. The unusual combination of
experimental equipment did not encourage easy identification that undoubtedly left some
members of the 509th with unanswered questions. Some UFO enthusiasts have
manipulated these unanswered questions to support their flying'isaucer recovery scenario,
while eagerly supplying unfounded explanations of extraterrest'rial visitation and cosmic
conspiracy. Additionally, many claims of a flying saucer crash at Roswell rest on the
description of debris collected at the Foster ranch site. UFO researchers, including those
2. New York Times, "Balloon Staggers Down to Brooklyn Tavern, Hooks Itself to Roof and Upsets
Decorum," Oct 1, 1948.
3. New York Times, "Wreckage of a 'Spaceship': Of This Earth (and U.S.)," Sep 18, 1994.
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