“Worthing”38 pages
- p. 12 …Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July 9, 1947
17. Satement, Lt. Col. Sheridan…
- p. 13 …Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July 9, 1947
2. Organizational Chart, Watson Laboratories…
- p. 28 …of the Eighth Air Force at Forth Worth, Texas, stated that upon
examination the debris recovered…
- p. 30 …These locations
include Fort Worth, Texas, the home of the Eighth Air Force Headquarters;
possibly Sandia…
- p. 34 …Laboratory, Washington, DC;
Federal Records Center, Ft Worth, TX; the INSCOM Archives, Fort Meade, MD;
National…
- p. 38 …the famous photos (Atch 16) in Fort Worth was that of a
radar target normally suspended…
- p. 39 …told was a flying saucer to Fort Worth. The people on
board included ... and Maj Jesse…
- p. 40 …Newton was a weather officer assigned to Fort Worth, who was on duty when
the Roswell…
- p. 45 …taken at the time by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, that depicted
Ramey and Marcel with…
- p. 46 …wreckage prior to its getting to Fort Worth. This organization
reported on July 20, 1994, that…
- p. 48 …July 9, 1947 Photos of Balloon Wreckage, Ft Worth Star Telegram
17. Signed Sworn Statement of…
- p. 51 …After the autopsies, conspiracy theorists said
the bodies were flown to Fort Worth and then
to…
- p. 75 …of the debris was flown to Fort Worth,
..as where the Commander of the Eighth Air…
- p. 101 …WNRq or the Southwest Regional
Depository (Fort Worth, Texas).
Recommendations
Because the records management policy of…
- p. 108 …Ramey arrived .from Ft Worth on
an official visit.
16 July 1947 - Lt Colonel J. P…
- p. 151 16
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Photographs of Balloon Debris
July 9, 1947
- p. 159 …to Eighth AU- Force
Headquarters in Fort Worth where it was subsequently identified as a weather…
- p. 167 …Marcel took it to Fort Worth. Yeah that's the ...
RW: ·Yeah. That doesn't look…
- p. 168 …Wright-Pat
and Kirtland, or to Fort Worth. Back and forth, loaded up, with very tight…
- 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. 254 …But the Roswell morning paper
clearly showed that there was a knowledgeable person in Fort
Worth…
- p. 266 …by a news photographer of the Fort
Worth Star Telegram. It's four pictures that show…
- p. 309 …I was the only weather forecaster on duty in the Fort Worth base weather
and flight…
- p. 318 …to Eighth
Air Force Headquarters at Fort Worth AAF, TX, for his personal inspection. Upon
viewing…
- p. 326 …Before the announcement was made, the "disc" was flown to Fort Worth AAF,
at the direction…
- p. 327 …thermos jug" was allegedly transported
from Fort Worth AAF to Wright Field. 38 This description is…
- 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. 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 …Ft. Worth Regional Airspace Subcommittee
Lt. Col. Hall F. Smith, War Dept. Member, Ft. Worth
Regional…
- p. 716 …y
/•/ Jtul H. Boatman
PAUL H • BOA 1MAN
Secretary, Ft. Worth Regional Airspace
SubcCIIDII.ittee
(46)
- p. 749 …ron Worth Su~ittee night or Balloou
oa .l1Jo Space froa Al&IIIO&OrdO •
CiYS.l…
- p. 812 …Arrived in
Fort Worth about 9 EDST. Off again to Big Springs, Texas, where forced to…
- p. 990 …the Foster ranch and shown at Forth Worth Army Airfield with Maj. Jesse Marcel. Crashed
saucer…
PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
side. I thought the B Model was a 1947 vintage and assumed,
wrongly so, that the C Model would have come later.
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A: This, then, is really ••• So they didn't change the
numbers. It does show the little swivel there, in '44. Well, as
always, my memory can be improved.
Tibbetts, the radar lieutenant working for Fletcher, said
that when they got these in '44 there was a lot of trouble with
breakage in the air and they had to go back for reinforcement.
Q: That's where maybe the tape came in?
A: He said that's where the tape came in. Because it
certainly doesn't show this. There's just no question in my
memory, bad as it may be, that there was a tape there. That
impelled me to drag out Herbert Crow•s letter. While I'm finding
that, here is a communication between Todd and a Warrant Officer
Newton, who identified things in General Ramey's office.
(Pause}
Q: It says a material like mylar. Do you have any
knowledge of when that term came into use? mylar is a
polyethylene, it's a metalized polyethylene.
A: It's not really a polyethylene, it's a polyturpoline ...
Q: I'm not a chemist.
A: It's really quite a different thing. We certainly got
involved with mylar balloons in General Mills around 1950 or
1951.
Q: Nothing that early, though.
A: I think not. It was really quite a new plastic. This
is mylar. As you can see from the appearance, it's really quite
different than polyethylene. It's non-extensible, where this
really stretches. This scatters light and this doesn't. We have
flown mylar balloons and mylar balloons vacuum coated with
aluminum, but I think we didn't fly any in this era. It would be
my guess that someone is sort of confusing this with later
things. There were a lot of mylar balloons carried on rockets,
and it was called Jim's sphere. Someone named Jim came up with
the idea of increasing the turbulence around a following sphere
by putting a little protuberance, little combs out on it. That
was Jim's sphere. A lot of them were flown to measure winds in
the low ionosphere, flown on rockets, from White Sands. They
could well have fallen, but to my memory, it would have been
anachronistic, out of times.
Here's a letter to me from Herbert Crow who was one of my
technicians in the 1948 operation. These pictures you saw,