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A: I think not, because they say, the whole article is
this was a demonstration. I would have thought, since Crary was
a senior person and he and Peoples, Peoples was our contact with
the base. But other than Oyvad, we had no real contact with
anyone I remember. I do remember being very disappointed with
the radar.
Q: If this were a demonstration sometime on the 9th or
lOth of July, prior to this being published, they talk in terms
here of these radar reflectors. These particular radar
reflectors, as having labels on them. The radar reflectors you
were using, did they have any type of labels talking about being
property of u.s. Army, or Watson Laboratories?
A: None that I know of. We were strongly encouraged not
to mix in the Air Force with what we did. Everything we did had
an NYU label. I may be able to dig back in my file somewhere •..
Q: so they may have had an NYU label on it. Even the
service ones.
A: On service, but on radar test flights, there's no way
we would have put a label on.
Q: Those were just shakedown flights. You were just
saying hey, what's going to work best to get the data, so let's
use some of the equipment we have and see what works, so you'd
have someone on the radar and say yeah, this configuration works,
this one doesn't. That's what you were doing. Then later on you
refined your technique •••
A: What we would do is we would put up things and they'd
come back and say it didn't work. So we'd scratch our heads and
do something else. But we were running that end of t~e balloon
end of the operation. Nobody else was flying balloons around us.
There may have been a radiosonde operation out over White Sands,
but there was not one,. as .far as I know, at either-Roswell or
Alamagordo. If there had, I would have used them because we were
using standard AMQ-1 •.•
Q: But you did coordinate with Big Spring, Texas.
A: Did we?
Q: It's in the report, saying you guys, when you came back
to New Jersey, you were sending thank you letters to various
organizations that helped you while you were in the field. Big
Springs, Texas; some other places that you had coordinated with.
A: Thank you .••