“debris”60+ pages
- p. 12 …Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July 9, 1947
17. Satement, Lt. Col. Sheridan…
- p. 13 …Photographs, ML-307C/AP Device with Vintage Neoprene Balloons and Debris
32. Synopsis of Balloon Research…
- p. 15 …Balloons
Project MOGUL Balloon Train Components and Debris Recovered
Heights of Familiar Architectural Structures Relative to…
- p. 19 …Additionally, many claims of a flying saucer crash at Roswell rest on the
description of debris…
- p. 25 …Prior to that, the incident was dismissed
because the AAF originally identified the debris recovered as…
- p. 28 …When the debris was gathered up the
tinfoil, paper, tape, and sticks made a bundle about…
- p. 29 …Marcel, claimed that he had recovered
UFO debris near Roswell in 1947. Also in 1978, a…
- p. 30 example, it was originally reported that there was only recovery of debris from
one site. This…
- p. 32 …the exact location(s) of the
purported debris, and the extent of the wreckage. Such discrepancies…
- p. 35 …forth as a possible explanation for the debris
recovered near Roswell. Since much of this testing…
- p. 38 …There were three categories of
debris: a thick, foil like metallic gray substance; a brittle, brownish…
- p. 39 …The debris looked like pieces
of a large balloon which had burst. The pieces were small…
- p. 40 accompanied Major Marcel to the ranch to recover the debris, sometimes along
with his Counter Intelligence…
- p. 43 …Lt Col Cavitt described a small area of debris which appeared, "to
resemble bamboo type square…
- p. 44 …Pflock concluded from his research that the Brazel Ranch debris originally
reported as a "flying disc…
- p. 46 …This organiza-
tion was able to obtain measurements from the "sticks" visible in the debris after…
- p. 48 …Photos of ML-307C/ AP Device, With Vintage Neoprene Balloon and Debris
32. Synopsis of Balloon…
- p. 67 …reporting air vehicle crashes,
investigations, and wreckage/debris retention and disposition;
(c) identify~ records (unclassified or…
- p. 71 …existence of any relevant documents, flying saucer debris, or space aliens on WPAFB.
AF/IN's…
- p. 72 …miles from the rest of the
OFO debris. There has been rumors of post-mortem examinations…
- p. 75 …They discovered a gre:~t deal of lightweight debris which
couldn't be cut. burned, or…
- p. 81 …Normally, the safety investigation is done first, after which the wreckage/debris retention
and disposition becomes…
- p. 85 …reporting air vehicle crashes, investigations, and
wreckage/debris retention and disposition. Additionally, we do not possess…
- p. 151 16
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Photographs of Balloon Debris
July 9, 1947
- p. 159 …When we got to this location we
subsequently located some debris which appeared to me to…
- p. 164 …we heard that someone had found some debris out not too tar &om RosweU and it…
- p. 172 …the
next morning they headed out into a field were Brazel had found the debris." So…
- p. 175 …type
of rocket when you saw the debris in the field?
SC: No. No. I never…
- p. 177 …the senior intelligence officer walked
into the debris field, examined the wreckase. Rickett said it looked…
- p. 182 …through the security phalanx and saw metallic debris scattered in an outer circle
with a diameter…
- p. 187 …It was something that was written or printed on some of the
debris, Do you recall…
- p. 201 …balloons for the detection and
collection of debris from atomic explosion. Although I was involved in…
- p. 202 …There was also debris coUection on sticky paper. Most of the balloon projects
were not concerned…
- p. 206 …others were involved in other activities so debris from rockets, aircraft
dropsondes, etc. may have been…
- p. 213 …someone
had come to him with some debris from Ne~ Mexico and he said, "this SW…
- p. 214 apparatus and materials for the project, so if he said that it was debris from the…
- p. 219 …When this
purplish-pink marking on the debris came up, I immediately
remembered this sort of…
- p. 222 …He indicates in this
newspaper article that he actually found the debris in mid-June,
however…
- p. 232 …And left pieces of debris everywhere. Depending on •..
- p. 252 …But you're quite right, there's
debris that was reported to us that •••
Q: ••• some…
- p. 257 …in the area who could explain this debris that was brought
in. There were no experts…
- p. 261 …a radar to substitute
for the real debris. I think there's a very high likelihood…
- p. 262 …I asked her did he
ever talk to her about anything regarding this debris that had…
- p. 266 …that's been
substituted for the real debris, and there are also stories where
Marchelle said…
- p. 270 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 54
including that debris, are pictures that he sent to me…
- p. 275 …Someone came from New Mexico with this debris?
A: Yes, I believe that's correct.
Q…
- p. 276 …Why did they bring this debris to Colonel Duffy? Why didn't they bring it to…
- p. 278 …I knew him only by the path of debris he left behind.
I never met him…
- p. 311 31
Photographs
ML-307C/AP Device with Vintage
Neoprene Balloons and Debris
- p. 318 …Meanwhile, Brig Gen Roger
Ramey, Eighth Air Force Commander, ordered that the debris be flown to…
- p. 325 …Descriptions of the debris provided by Brazel, Cavitt, Crary's diary, and the
photos of the…
- p. 326 …It now appears that the debris from
MOGUL flight no. 4 had come ·to earth on…
- p. 327 …Newton positively identified the debris as the remnants of a balloon and RAWIN
target. 37 With…
- p. 328 …Research has revealed that the debris
found on the ranch and displayed in General Ramey's…
- p. 329 …weather balloons and targets, positively identified the debris as a
weather device.42 In short, descriptions…
- p. 331 …4 Photographs of Balloon Debris
JAMES McANDREW, 1st Lt, USAFR
Declassification and Review Officer
SAF/AAZD…
- p. 333 Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Photographs of Balloon Debris
July 9, 1947
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- p. 379 …When the .debris was :gathered of these. . .· .
originally gave tbe'<information of Jesse_. A. Mateel and…
- p. 975 …In fact, General
Ramey displayed the original debris recovered from the ranch, which came
from a…
- p. 978 …They also contend
that the debris recovered by the rancher was transported to Andrews AAF,
MD…
COL TRAKOWSKI - 6/29/94 7
were out of channel, so to speak. It was on such an occasion that Ed Istvan acted to line up contractors
for these targets. He got into a considerable amount of, shall we say, controversy with the Signal Corps
because he was out of line.
Q: Do you recall any of the contractors he may have worked with?
A: No, I don't remember them by name. They were not within my purview at the time. As
I have told others, including Mr. Pflock, we had an outstanding expeditor on our staff, on Colonel Duffy's
staff, by the name of John E. Peterson. Jack Peterson was a major at the time. He was a prewar graduate
of Harvard Business School, and he knew business operations inside and out. Again, he was an extremely
energetic fellow. He was very, very valuable and successful at breaking loose stuck contracts and stuck
production and things that weren't moving as fast as they should. During the war that was very important.
Jack monitored the procurement of these radar targets, and I believe Ed Istvan either worked for
or alongside Jack Peterson, and I remember when they finally ... Now this was all not under my purview,
but I worked in the same building with them, and I knew Jack very well, he was a very good friend and
we talked and joked with each other a lot. I remember so clearly when the contractor for these targets was
selected, and Jack thought it was the biggest joke in the world that they had to go to a toy manufacturer
to make these radar targets. Then it was even a bigger joke when it turned out that because of wartime
scarcities of materials, the tape that they used to assemble these targets, the reflecting material on the balsa
frames, was some kind of a pinkish purple tape with a heart and flower design on it. This was, again, a
big flap.
Q: Did you ever see any of those?
A: Yeah, I saw some of them. Not in connection with my work, but they were around the
office. The prototypes were around the office, and the first production runs were there.
Q: So you would say it's a limited number of a few runs maybe.
A: I have no idea how many hundreds were made, or even thousands. But like everything
else that goes into production, the contractors have a limited production to begin with until they work out
the bugs, and then they go full blower in the high production.
Q: Do you remember a rough span of times when you saw these: when you saw the first one,
and when you saw the last?
A: It was probably 1944 or 1945. It was probably late in 1944 when the first ones were
produced.
Q: Where did you see those? What part of the country?
A: Right there at Signal Corps. We were all working at that time, and John Peterson had his
offices at the Toms River Signal Laboratory, which was actually located on the jurisdictional lines between
Sea Girt and Springlake, New Jersey. It was an old night club that the Signal Corps had rented for the
purposes of doing remote experimentation.