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diameter General Mills balloons. We had a very successful set of
balloon launches in Alamagordo in September of 1 47. My only
guess is trying to have a down-wind receiving station.
Q: There are some other names mentioned that I can't
recall.
Q: What about then Colonel Blanchard and General Ramey?
Do you think they may have had any knowledge of what your
ultimate purpose was?
A: I think not. I want to say something about Colonel
J.D. Ryan. He was Chief of Staff of the Air Force later, but
"Dr. Peoples, Murray Hackman, and First Lieutenant Thompson from
Air Material Command, were out at the field to inspect Air
Material command installations and to confer with LTC Briley."
Well, well. Hackman was one of our radiosonde operators.
There's Colonel John D. Ryan right there. That's interesting.
on the morning of this famous press release, July 8th, in
The Roswell Daily Dispatch, there is a statement about a flying
disc being identified, and Colonel J.D. Ryan who is on the staff
of 8th Air Force said that the Air Force was now using radar
targets to measure winds aloft in some stations.
I find that of interest because apparently in reading some
of the various things that happened in General Ramey's office,
apparently someone that afternoon did think this was a radar
target that had been brought in. But the Roswell morning paper
clearly showed that there was a knowledgeable person in Fort
Worth.
Q: Is that in the article, the 8 July article, .that Ryan
made the statement?
A: Yes. Maybe not ~he article yo~'re talking about.
Q: Is this the one that William Haut •.•
A: No, this is that morning, not that afternoon. (Pause
to look for clipping) There's Newt Goldenberg, you mentioned him
earlier in one of our conversations. That's one of our altitude
controls.
Here's the morning paper, "Report flying disc found." Down
here is about Colonel J.D. Ryan, and he mentioned the existence
of radar wind measuring equipment in the Air Force. If you want
a copy of that •••
Q: Then there's, subsequently, no mention of the radar
targeta until General Ramey discusses it on the 9th, talking
about the material being a balloon.