“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
A: A guy named Sam Kay formed a company and it was called
Kaysam. In fact I have, and you're welcome to them •••
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A: Kaysam balloons because of the way they were made, and
this jell that had to be inflated had this ring, cardboard ring
put in them. That's the neck of a Kaysam balloon, and here are
more modern Kaysam balloons, the sort that are still being flown.
Q: These are just used for ~he typical meteorological type
balloons.
A: carry radio (inaudible), that's correct.
Dewey & Olney have gone out of the business and Kaysam
bought them out. Here's a Kaysam .balloon that is made by a dip
mold. This is somewhat indicative, I think, of the way one of
those balloons of the type we're using. As you can see on
exposure just to ordinary light, they discolor. But these are
balloons that were made probably in the '70s. As they change
with plasticizer and anti-oxidants for ozone, they certainly
change in appearance. The balloons we •••
I have pictures here, pictures in the hangar. There, as you
can see, these are the ivory colored balloons of the sort we were
flying. This is the balloon you just found the eyelets on in the
hangar. These are pictures from the 1947 era where we're getting
ready to fly the 15 foot H.A. Smith balloon.
Q: The reinforcing tape on these balloons, these
polyethylene balloons, we were told is a type of acetate. It had
none of this symbology, is that correct?
A: None at all.
Q: So the symbology on the tape was only related to the
radar reflectors.
A: That's correct. Here is a later model polyethylene
balloon, and it's a little thinner than the ones we were flying,
but there's a polyethylene balloon.
Q: It looks like polyethylene sheeting that I would use to
cover up •••
Q: I've also heard the early balloons described as carrot
bag quality. Material they would use in a carrot bag. Dry
cleaner bags.
Q: Dry cleaner bags. We think of them as being very
fragile, but materials from this time frame have been described
as durable -- something you couldn't tear with your hands.