“Corps”45 pages
- p. 40 …debris, sometimes along
with his Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) subordinate, Lewis Rickett, who, like
Marcel, is…
- p. 45 …assembly) were located at the Army
Signal Corps Museum at Fort Monmouth and were obtained. A…
- p. 75 …and a Counter Intelligence Corps Officer, Sheridan Cavitt,
went to the ranch to inspect the material…
- p. 105 …Colonel Oliver LaFarge, Air Reserve Corps,
at Santa Fe, made atrangernents for Colonel Blanchard to visit…
- p. 159 …or unlawful inducement. ~
~I was a Counterintelligence Corps (CIC) Special Agent for the US Army AU…
- p. 163 …the Army Air Corps... right.
RW: When did you get transferred to Roswell, Sir?
SC: I…
- p. 166 …activity
like that, I was Counter Intelligence Corps, this didn't have anything to do with…
- p. 168 …There was nobody else out there from CIC or
Counter Intelligence Corps that you knew of…
- p. 169 …did, in the Air Force; the Air Corps. I think they wanted to ... they were having…
- p. 170 …six) "was an agent in the counterintelligence corps. He accompanied another
intelligence officer on the initial…
- p. 172 …Not
that you personally did, but the Army Air Corps in general: "The trip to the…
- p. 213 …Previously, I was
appointed as the laboratory chief in the Signal Corps as an Air Force…
- p. 214 …Some of the contractors lined up were not quite in concert with typical Signal
Corps practices…
- p. 217 …One of the individuals,
Sheridan Cavitt, who at that time was a Counter-Intelligence
Corps officer…
- p. 224 …Colonel Duffy was assigned to
extract meteorological.equipment out of the Signal_Corps in 1943.
There…
- p. 225 …Colonel Duffy talked to the field
artillery that was procuring through the Signal Corps, gun-laying…
- p. 236 …During WWII, the
·signal Corps had laid on them the requirement to develop a
constant level…
- p. 246 …V-2s and
other rockets the Ordnance Corps people were flying over at White
Sands. So…
- p. 264 …I knew the Signal Corps designation, the SCR-584s and
270-s, etc., but this was…
- p. 268 …We talked with the Signal Corps up at Fort Monmouth and
that's where we got…
- p. 274 …I was an Air Force officer
assigned to the Signal Corps as part of Colonel Duffy…
- p. 277 …Signal Corps and Army Air Force?
A: All the officers that I had on my staff…
- p. 278 …It was the Signal Corps' responsibility to procure those targets;
it was not the responsibility of…
- p. 279 …He got into a considerable amount of, shall we say, controversy with the Signal Corps
because…
- p. 299 …a) US Army Signal Corps Museum, Ft Gordon GA
Mr Ted Wise, Director, DSN 780-2818…
- p. 318 …Maj J~sse
Marcel, and two Counterintelligence Corps Agents, Capt Sheridan Cavitt and
MSgt Lewis Rickett…
- p. 320 …Liaison Officer to the US
Army Signal Corps, with primary duties for securing meteorological equipment
from…
- p. 517 …A modified radiosonde-type aneroid pressure capsule (Signal
Corps ML 310-/) has been the basic sensing…
- p. 519 Corps ML-310/ radiosonde aneroid unit, a metal helix on a
rotating cylinder of insulating material…
- p. 731 …Army Air Corps Stratosphere Flight
of 1934 in the Balloon 'Explorer'", Contributed Tec~ical Papers of…
- p. 761 …4· Richard Hassard, a forEr Signal Corps Officer was hired
because ot his general knowledge of…
- p. 763 …Griffith
11/7/II:> Visking Corp.
Chicago, Ill.
Mr. Cahn
12/4/11:> Visking Corp.
Chicago…
- p. 764 12/16/46 Celanese Celluloid Corp.
180 }ladison J, venue
New York, ~i. i..
12/17…
- p. 765 …Smith
1/3/47 Visking Corp.
Chicago, Ill.
Att: J. L. Lane
1/8/47 Watson…
- p. 766 …1/21/47 Shellmar·Projects Corp.
Mt. Vernon, Ohio
1/21/47 Milprint Inc.
Milwaukee, Wise…
- p. 767 …toPermission withheld.
place subcontract with
Unexcelled Chern. Corp.
for the fabrication of
be.lloons.
Request th…
- p. 768 …J •
3/7/47 Plax Corp.
Hartford, Conn.
Mr. R. E• .Ames
Same recuest as letter…
- p. 769 3/19/47 Unexcelled Chem. Corp.
New Brunswick, N.J.
Att: 2~r. Tegen
3/';:1…
- p. 781 …Plastics & Packaging No
1-f.J.lwa.ukee 1, Wisconsin
Celanese Plastics Corp. Plastics & Packaging No…
- p. 783 …As the motor switched modulator ~us already i~ experimental
state of manufacture for the Signal Corps…
- p. 810 …date, talked to Lt Dyer of Signal Corps regarding for tomorrow
firing. Chantz and Bill went…
- p. 811 …Delayed trip to Silver City to talk over Signal Corps
Communication with Peoples, Ball this PM…
- p. 812 …Left Alamogordo about 9 am, Chantz, Porter and myself, 2 Signal Corps
men along. Stopped at…
- p. 908 …As presently designed, the modulator contains a
standard Signal Corps ML-310E radiosonde aneroid
unit, a…
- p. 981 …Army Signal Corps, Saipan, in
1944. Photo Courtesy of Mrs. Emily Duffy.
Dr. Athelstan F. Spilhaus…
THE ROSWELL INCIDENT
On July 7, 1947, W.W. (Mac) Brazel, a rancher from approximately 75 miles
northwest of Roswell, NM, contacted the local sheriff and reported that sme
metallic debris had come to rest on the ranch on which he worked near the town
of Corona, NM. This was during the "UFO Wave of 1947," and he told the sh¢riff
that he thought this debris may be part of a "flying disc."1 The sheriff conta<;ted
Roswell (Army Air Field) AAF, which in tum sent intelligence officer, Maj J~sse
Marcel, and two Counterintelligence Corps Agents, Capt Sheridan Cavitt and
MSgt Lewis Rickett, to evaluate the debris. The officers collected a portion of the
material and brought it back to Roswell AAF on the evening of July 7. 2 The
following day, the Public Information Office released a statement saying that the
Army Air Forces had recovered a flying disc. This press release was provided to
local newspapers who sent it out to wire services. Meanwhile, Brig Gen Roger
Ramey, Eighth Air Force Commander, ordered that the debris be flown to Eighth
Air Force Headquarters at Fort Worth AAF, TX, for his personal inspection. Upon
viewing the debris, he and his staff recognized parts which looked similar to a
weather balloon. He then summoned the base weather officer, who identified 1
the
debris as the remnants of a weather balloon and its attached metallic radar target.3
General Ramey then invited the local press to view and take photographs oft the
materials and he declared the episode to be a misunderstanding (Atch 1).
The above summarizes the previously reported information of what happened on
July 7 and 8, 1947. Before now, however, a larger portion of the story was never
told. Recent research indicates that the debris recovered from the ranch on ]uly
7, 1947, was a weather balloon-but it was not being used strictly for wea~er
purposes; its real purpose was to carry classified payloads for a Top Secret US
Army Air Forces project. The project's classified code name was MOGUL.
The current investigation discovered that an experimental ba1loon project was
being conducted at nearby Alamogordo Army Airfield (now Holloman AFB, NM)
during the summer of 1947.4 An examination of unclassified technical and
progress reports prepared by the balloon project revealed that a highly classified
program, Project MOGUL was the ultimate reason for the balloon experiments.
Project MOGUL was classified Top Secret and carried a priority level of 1A.5 It is
Project MOGUL that provides the ultimate explanation for the "Roswell Incident."
1. Roswell Daily Record, Jul 9, 1947, p. 1.
2. Intvw, Col Richard L. Weaver with Lt Col Sheridan Cavitt, USAF (Ret}, May 24, 1994.
3. Intvw, Lt Col Joseph V. Rogan with Irving Newton, Jul21, 1994.
4. Ltr, Lt Col Edward A. Doty to Mr David Bushnell, Mar 3, 1959.
5. Ltr, Brig Gen E. O'Donnell, Deputy Chief, Engineering Division, HQ AMC, to Commanding
General, USAAF, subj: Change in Classification of MOGUL, Item 188-5, Jul 8, 1946.