“Fort”41 pages
- p. 12 …1947,
and July 5-9, 1947
16. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July…
- p. 13 …USAFR
Attachments to the McAndrew Synopsis:
1. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July…
- p. 30 …These locations
include Fort Worth, Texas, the home of the Eighth Air Force Headquarters;
possibly Sandia…
- p. 34 …Center, Ft Worth, TX; the INSCOM Archives, Fort Meade, MD;
National Air and Space Museum, Washington…
- p. 38 …in the famous photos (Atch 16) in Fort Worth was that of a
radar target normally…
- p. 39 …were told was a flying saucer to Fort Worth. The people on
board included ... and Maj…
- p. 40 …Newton was a weather officer assigned to Fort Worth, who was on duty when
the Roswell…
- p. 45 …at the Army
Signal Corps Museum at Fort Monmouth and were obtained. A copy is appended…
- p. 46 …the wreckage prior to its getting to Fort Worth. This organization
reported on July 20, 1994…
- p. 51 …After the autopsies, conspiracy theorists said
the bodies were flown to Fort Worth and then
to…
- p. 75 …Some of the debris was flown to Fort Worth,
..as where the Commander of the Eighth…
- p. 101 …Center (WNRq or the Southwest Regional
Depository (Fort Worth, Texas).
Recommendations
Because the records management policy…
- p. 151 16
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Photographs of Balloon Debris
July 9, 1947
- p. 159 …taken to Eighth AU- Force
Headquarters in Fort Worth where it was subsequently identified as a…
- p. 167 …Marcel took it to Fort Worth. Yeah that's the ...
RW: ·Yeah. That doesn't look…
- p. 168 …into Wright-Pat
and Kirtland, or to Fort Worth. Back and forth, loaded up, with very…
- p. 169 …Force Base up here in Washington.
MC: Fort Lewis, I think he ...
SC: Was it Lewis…
- p. 174 …Then it said: "After Marcel had gone to Fort Worth and came back Marcel
challenged the…
- p. 176 …O.K."Marcel would take some ofthe sample to Fort Worth to show Ramey. In the…
- p. 179 normal course of his duty was sent to Washington not 8th Air Force in Fort Worth…
- p. 227 …School in Spring Lake, New Jersey, essentially Fort
Monmouth. When I finished the training course for…
- p. 254 …But the Roswell morning paper
clearly showed that there was a knowledgeable person in Fort
Worth…
- p. 263 …He apparently went down to Fort Bliss, to the
commanding general there -- I guess he was…
- p. 265 …Who did Alamagordo report to? You indicated it was
Fort Bliss?
A: No. There was a…
- p. 266 …Headquarters by a news photographer of the Fort
Worth Star Telegram. It's four pictures that…
- p. 268 …We talked with the Signal Corps up at Fort Monmouth and
that's where we got…
- p. 281 …No, we had our own aircraft based at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
Q: Did you ever…
- p. 309 …I was the only weather forecaster on duty in the Fort Worth base weather
and flight…
- p. 318 …flown to Eighth
Air Force Headquarters at Fort Worth AAF, TX, for his personal inspection. Upon…
- p. 326 …Before the announcement was made, the "disc" was flown to Fort Worth AAF,
at the direction…
- p. 327 …giant thermos jug" was allegedly transported
from Fort Worth AAF to Wright Field. 38 This description…
- p. 329 designs on it."41 Furthermore, the Fort Worth Army Airfield Weather Officer,
Irving Newton, who was…
- p. 333 Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Photographs of Balloon Debris
July 9, 1947
1
- p. 448 …II -18 12/8/49 II II II 50,000 Fort Douglas,Ark.
EN-1 1…
- p. 640 …Similarly, the Fort Worth Sub-Committee established a procedure
for flights made within the Fort V1orth…
- p. 707 …Air Coordinating Committee, Fort Worth Regional
Airspace Subcommittee.
Subject: Obstructions to ·air navigation ••••.•••••••••••••••••••••••••• 43
Memorandum from…
- p. 713 …Secretary a
SUBJECT
AIR COORDINATING COMMITTEE
FORT WORTH REGIONAL AIRSPACE SUBCOMMITTEE
P. O. BOX 1689
FORT…
- p. 715 …Elliott
AIR COORDINATING COMMITTEE
FORT WOR'IH REGIONAL AIRSPACE SUBCOMMITTEE
P. 0. BOX 1689
FORT WORm…
- p. 731 …L. "Constant Elevation Free-balloon Flights from Fort
Omaha," Monthly Weather Review, Vol. 47, PP• 535…
- p. 807 …and landed at Godman Field out- ,,
side Fort Knox, Louisville, Ky. Stayed at Officers Club tonight…
- p. 812 …May 15 Thurs Oakes, Stevens?, Oliva and myself to Fort Dix this am early. Loaded up…
PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 5
A: .•. much of which we can copy and make it easier for
you. These are balloon fragments, things that held balloons [up]
after they'd been exposed to the sun.
Q: Is this the neoprene type or the •••
A: That's the neoprene type. I have the polyethylene
type ...
Q: Is this from the '47 era?
A: That's a balloon probably from the '50s. That's a K-
San balloon. The kind of balloons we used then were the
(inaudible) derricks balloons, and that's the way they look after
they've been out in the sun. That's about three weeks' exposure
to sunlight here in New Mexico.
Q: So the polyethylene really is degraded by sunlight.
A: That's neoprene. All that's neoprene.
Q: This almost looks like ashes of paper.
A: That's right. And there's a big point in some of the
recovery that the material was black •••
Here is the list of the people who,were assigned under
Colonel Duffy in the Air Force liaison office. Istvan's name
you'll find in there. He ended up being in the Titan program
and, I think, retired as a lieutenant colonel maybe back in the
'70s. ·
Schneider was the administrative director of our project.
He and I worked together. He was in Maine, and was not really
technically involved. I have letters from him if you're
interested in seeing them. He says he has no memory of this.
A person who was heavily involved
radar thing was Colonel Joe Fletcher.
asking for his help and he essentially
much.
in developing this whole
I wrote him a letter
says he doesn't remember
Q: He's also been hounded by some of these UFO ...
A: And by Todd and by me.
Q: So it appears as though you, yourself, have done some
extensive research into this particular incident.
A: Until two years ago, I was quite convinced one of our
polyethylene balloons we didn't recover caused it. Then I got
this newspaper, Todd sent me this, and I immediately saw there's
no way that could be a polyethylene balloon.