“Project 1947”60+ pages
- p. 3 …The importance of attachment 32, Lieutenant McAndrew's synopsis, derives from his
description of Project MOGUL…
- p. 13 …Photographs, Project MOGUL Balloon Trains
27. Table No.7, Summary of NYU Constant-Level Balloon Flights…
- p. 14 …Crane as Project Officer for MOGUL and TORRID, June 18,
1946
9. Memo, Maj Gen Curtis…
- p. 25 …Records were located and
thoroughly explored concerning a then-Top Secret balloon project, designed to
attempt…
- p. 27 USAF in September, 1947, the USAF inherited equipment, personnel, records,
policies, and procedures from the AAF…
- p. 29 …EVOLUTION OF THE EVENT FROM 1947 TO THE PRESENT
General Ramey's press conference and rancher…
- p. 31 …This included directing searches at current offices where special or
unusual projects might be carried out…
- p. 35 …USAF records showed that between June 24,
1947, and July 28, 1947, there were five crashes…
- p. 41 …Its name was Project MOGUL (Atch 19).
Project MOGUL was a then-sensitive, classified project, whose…
- p. 42 …These interviews confirmed that Project MOGUL was a compartmented,
sensitive effort. The NYU group was responsible…
- p. 43 …It is very
probable that this Top Secret project balloon train (Flight 4), made up of…
- p. 44 …Trakowski provided specific details on Project MOGUL and described
how the security for the program was…
- p. 45 In order to provide a more detailed discussion of the specifics of Project MOGUL
and how…
- p. 48 …Copy of Vandenberg's Appointment Book and Diary, July 7-9, 1947
16. July 9, 1947…
- p. 51 …Schiff
complaiiled then that the Defense Department
had been "unresponsive" to his inquiries about
the 1947…
- p. 73 …of the
physicians who participated in this project. I must respect his
confidentially and anonymity. He…
- p. 74 •Freedom of Information Act Request
February 5, 1993
Paqe 3 of 3
PROJECT SIGMA
The project…
- p. 76 SUMMARY OF HQ NAIC RESEARCH INTO THE ROSWELL INCIDENT,
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING SAUCERS, AND PROJECT BLUE BOOK…
- p. 78 …study
project officer from 1951-1953 and he investigated a series of reports from 1947. He…
- p. 104 …assWted command
of Ro..;\vell .~rmy Air Field on e July 1947. Colo·nel i1. H…
- p. 106 …Headqt~':'.!"ters, this station,
datod 18 July 1947. 1st Lt. Lewis c. Bohanan. former commanding o…
- p. 108 …Officer and AACS, regarding Headquarters
AMC projects.
22 July- 1947 - Dr. E. M. Townsexrl, PBS, Ft…
- p. 183 …There was a project run by New York University, out ofHoDoman at that time. It
was…
- p. 196 …Plans .for rasearoh on Project "t.t>cuJ. 1 " z. c. lS:~.-ll, priority
lA, include…
- p. 201 …On the December 1947 baUoon project reports the
"service flights" probably refer to the then Top…
- p. 205 …GeNII was the Project Engineer for the NYU balloon project during the 1947 time frame. I…
- p. 206 …Dr Crazy and Dr Peoples were the advance people and scientific monitors for our project Dr…
- p. 213 …I have also been contacted by several researchers and writers and discussed project Mogul
and provided…
- p. 217 Transcript from 8 June 94, Interview with
Professor Charles Moore
(A) Professor Charles Moore
Project Engineer…
- p. 218 …Is there any type of
material from that project that you can think of that would…
- p. 226 …so essentially you'd say there were no radar reflectors
in New Mexico until 1947 until…
- p. 246 …We got into an operation at Alamagordo in early June of 1947, in
which we were…
- p. 261 …It
turns out that during this time frame, 1947, 1948, 1949, there
were numerous aircraft accidents…
- p. 275 …I remained project officer of Project MOGUL through our move of the
laboratory from Watson Laboratories…
- p. 281 …At some point in Project MOGUL did you utilize equipment based at Roswell Army Air
Field…
- p. 299 …B-29 crashed on T/0 from Albuquerque in Jan
1947 and a B-29 crashed…
- p. 300 …Archivist (202) 504-5416
"no records of Project Mogul; recommend checking with DOE historian or the…
- p. 309 …However, I was familiar with them
because we used them and their products on various projects…
- p. 318 …1947.4 An examination of unclassified technical and
progress reports prepared by the balloon project revealed…
- p. 320 …in
January 1947, is shown in Attachment 2. Over the course of the project, MOGUL
had…
- p. 321 Air Forces, in conjunction with Project MOGUL. 10 The NYU "balloon group" was
to develop and…
- p. 322 …June 1, 1947.19 Present Olll this
flight was C.B. Moore, NYU Project Engineer, Charles…
- p. 323 …Dr Peoples, Project
Scientist, decided not to bring the radiosonde recorder (an AN IFMQ1 weighing
approximately…
- p. 326 …Over the course of Project MoGUL,
several balloons had landed and been recovered from that area…
- p. 328 …Additionally, in 1949, General Yates received a full briefing bf the
projects, including constant-level balloons…
- p. 329 …Pritchard, a Watson Laboratory Project Officer (not assigned to MOGUL)
stationed at Alamogordo AAF. This article…
- p. 330 …One instance, on April 7, 1947, Crary gave Pritchard
a "progress report for MOGUL project to…
- p. 418 …From September 1946 to Januar,r 1947, Colonel Dut!7 WRI in charge of
apnlled nropagation…
- p. 444 …was decided, during the autumn of 1947 to present the meteorological
diagnoses in a different form…
- p. 708 …20 March 1947
N. Y. Meeting No. 12
PROBLEM:
1. The Secretary of the Subcommittee presented…
- p. 747 …1, 1947 to
Ma7 31, 1947
§tqttoa II
tt.aearch D1'fie ion, ProJect 1fo. 93…
- p. 758 …January 1, 1947
to April 30, 1947
CONSTANT LEVEL BALLOON
Research Division, Project No. 93
Preoared…
- p. 776 …The project ~rsomlel !las been usiiU:; work bencl:.ea occ;.i.9ied
by other projc:cts…
- p. 790 …12. :20 l11arch 1947
PROBLEM:
1. The Secretary of t~e Subcommittee presented a request from…
- p. 819 …June 1, 1947 to
June 31, 19"7
Section II
Research Division, ProJect No. 9S
Prepared…
- p. 975 …Army Air Forces, in 1947, and later Chief of Staff,
United States Air Force, 1961-1965…
- p. 979 …break during
Project MOGUL operations at White
Sands Proving Ground, NM, July
1947.
Project MOGUL Field…
- p. 982 …the
NYU field trip in June 1947
prompted Project Engineer C.B.
Moore to attach additional…
- p. 983 …Moore, NYU Constant-Level Balloon Project Engineer. Moore pio-
neered the use of polyethylene balloons for…
- p. 984 …Sands Proving Ground, NM, in July 1947, by Project
MOGUL balloon and ground-based sensors. Photo…
ST ATEl\1E'N1 OF WITh'ESS
Date: 3 Jun 94 Place: VA
~I Athelstan F Spilhaus, hereby state that Jeffrey Butler, was identified as a Colone~ USAF and Jim
McAndrew, was identified as a Lieutenant. USAF on this date at my home and do hereby,
voluntarily and of my own free will make the following statement. This is done without having
been subjected to any coercion, unlawful influence or unlawful inducement. ~~
-.A~ ~ I was the Director of the NYU Balloon Project and also involved with many other sensitive
'V~'{' activities. Until these discussions, I had no indication of what the "RosweU incident" was. I was
invoJ:ved in numerous unusual activities such as reconstruction of captured Gcnnan rockets,
development of drone planes and the like-such as long range baUoons. The Army Air Force had
seen what the Japanese had done with long range balloons; although not effective as weapons, they
did initiate the long-range balloon research which led to use of balloons for the detection and
collection of debris from atomic explosion. Although I was involved in sensitive classified
programs, I completed secrecy agreements for various projects, and I understand that this activity
(Mogul, etc. is now declassified) and I did enforce "need to know". In part, I left Nl'U because
the administration wanted to know too much about the various projects I was involved in (the
Bikini test). At one time I was sent by the US government to assist the South Africa meterological
efforts and I worked numerous other special missions. Even though the war was over the Cold
War had just started and certain things were sensitive. I recaD that it was Col Duffy who brought
me from the Reserves to active duty. It was during this period that I did become involved in a
"UFO case". Some bush pilot had found some pock marks in dty snow in Alaska in 1950. So we
flew up and saw peculiar rowtd holes in the snow. We landed and took dog sleds to the site and
found craters with a hole in the center. We cored one out of the snow and found a center of
frozen conical ice. I began to think of something I had seen in the desert where glass had been
formed similarly after a lightening strike (the "furnoroles"). I took one back to the university in dty
ice and wrote a classified report. We even simulated a small lightning strike over dry snow (just
from the snow blowing over the swface) and carne up with conical ice formations. This was the
Stony River Incident and it wasn't a UFO. On the December 1947 baUoon project reports the
"service flights" probably refer to the then Top Security project AFOAT 1 (related to MOGUL)
which was to produce a report to the President when the Russians exploded an atomic device and
were ready to produce a droppable atomic bomb. We coordinated aD the listening posts to
determine what stage the Russians were at. Concerning the Watson Laboratory gear, I don't
remember the specifics of what that gear was. I recommend you check with Charlie Moore for
those details. Many of the projects I just new about in general-these were sensitive times-it was
sometimes better not to know too much-I knew about the collection of debris with special planes
daily from Eilson AFB to the North Pole and back, PTARMIGAN flights, that lasted through the
SO's. Concerning the Japanese baUoons, I don't recaU any specifics. ~or do I recaU whether we
had REWARD tags on aU the baUoons. I went many times to Alamogordo AAF and White
Sands--not necessarily for baUoon flights. I worked on naval activity such as the thermal affects on
SONAR. Concerning actual baUoon construction, Winzen ofSt Paul Minnesota, in association
with General :Mills, did most of the baUoons. General Mills also did some baUoon projects. I) 0 A
Winzen made the first polyethelene (non-stretchable balloons). Flight rr5, I really did not get into I:..V1.)
the details of the individual flights or experiments. The polyethelene material was very durable-it
was designed not to burst--you could push a sharp thing through it but it would be difficult to tear