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PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
you've talked with also. Colonel Weaver talked with Sheridan
Cavitt two weeks ago. So a lot of the statements that have been
attributed to Sheridan Cavitt, he says they're taken out of
context. He refutes a lot of the information that appears in
these various books.
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What I'd like to do, even though this is out of a popular
UFO type of magazine, is there are some statements attributed to
individuals concerning the material that was found, supposedly by
Mac Brazel, somewhere northwest of Roswell, New Mexico. They
talk in terms of materials that look like metallic foil, and
specifically that "could not be bent or broken."
As we've gone through the various research, what we believe
to be Project Mogul was probably involved in this incident. The
materials that were being used in Mogul included, of course, not
only the polyethylene balloons, but included the neoprene
balloons at some point, the various types of radar reflectors,
the instrumentation that was being used. Is there any type of
material from that project that you can think of that would be
pliable, would be bendable, but could not be torn? Could any of
the polyethylene or the foil-like radar reflectors, could that be
the case?
A: Let me get a picture for you. This is a radar
reflector manufactured in 1953. It's the ML-307C.
Q: Which is a little different from the B model that was
used in 1947?
A: Where this looks like a pine stick, the material on the
ones we had, this was all balsa and somewhat smaller in diameter,
but the configuration, with one exception ..• This configuration
of corners, these corners were the same thing. Here'$ a picture
of this sort of target being used in 1948, and you can see we are
launching multiple targets beneath this balloon.
Q: Is this the same type of target as this, or is this the
B model?
A: This is the B model we flew in 1947 and 1948. Those
are pictures of the B model. If you look, faintly along here you
can see a sort of a discoloration, and that's where my memory of
the reinforcing tape was that they talked about. The B models,
as I remember, did not have these three vanes up here. You don't
see particularly any suggestion in other photographs I have, I
don't remember these which would make the thing rotate in flight.
But this, in the B models was more like an aluminum foil
with a heavy laminated paper. So the material they talk about, I
think, was derived from some version of this.
Q: They talk in terms of the material, being able to
crumple it and releasing it, and it would unfold by itself and