“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 16
have ambiguities. You don't know if it went up or down when you
get the next.pressure contact switch. You'll find that sort of
uncertainty in describing the report.
so I'm quite sure that as a result of the failure of the
radar tracking, I went back and started using radiosondes even
though I didn't have the right equipment.
Q: You mentioned a few moments ago the Watson Laboratory
gear, the microphones, and it was also Columbia that was
developing the low frequency microphones. You had all of that
gear on these balloons, is that correct?
A: No, not on all of them. That mention of a sonobuoy
microphone, in the early ••• While the improved low frequency
microphones were being designed and built, we flew on balloons,
believe it or not, sonobouy used to detect submarines. We were
flying sonobuoy microphones on the balloons.
Q: But the material that's been identified as Watson Lab
gear shows up as very generic in all of these reports and things.
That was all part of Mogul also, is that correct?
A: That's correct. I think what happened is because the
watson Laboratory radar wasn't very successful, I think we made a
number of flights like this. I think I sent a sketch like that
to you. We made a number of flights like that which was an
unorthodox use of radar targets, and it's my opinion that the
thing that caused the debris that was picked up was probably from
a cluster of meteorological balloons carrying a cluster of
targets.
When something like the idea of a cluster balloon was not
only to carry the weight, but was also to keep the target in the
air for a long time. If one balloon burst, we still would have
enough buoyancy for awhile to keep the thing airborne. When it
would come to the ground this would drag along the ground and get
shredded, but this would still be carried downwind until another
balloon would burst, whereupon this one would start getting
shredded. So I think the explanation of why things were over
such a large area was, indeed, because it was a cluster, it was
multiple targets and cluster balloons.
Q: Of course the issue of the large area has been
different in different reports. Different people have stated the
200 yards, Cavitt in his description, described it in terms of
his living room which was not that large.
A: Even a single target, if it came down, wouldn't have
filled a single living room, but a multiple target, begins
dragged sideways and then blown transversally by any later winds,
could have filled ~ reasonable area.
Q: And left pieces of debris everywhere. Depending on •..