“Washington”44 pages
- p. 2 …SSOP, Washington, DC 20402-9328
ISBN 0-16-048023-X
- p. 5 …Jim Bruns acquainted himself with the numerous research facilities available in the
Washington, DC, area, and…
- p. 6 …At the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, DC, it was a
pleasure to collaborate…
- p. 11 …s Report of Air Force Research:
1. Washington Post, "GAO Turns to Alien Turf in Probe…
- p. 21 …OF THE SECF>PARY
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON DC 20330-1000
:MEMORANDUM FOR THE…
- p. 26 …the result of a January 14, 1994, Washington Post
article (Atch 1) which announced Congressman Steven…
- p. 34 …SAF/ AAZD conducted reviews at a number of locations,
including the National Archives in Washington, DC…
- p. 37 …involved Ellington
Field, Texas and the Spokane (Washington) Depot. After much discussion and
information gathering on…
- p. 47 …GAO, or any other inquiries.
Attachments
1. Washington Post Article, "GAO Turns to Alien Turf in…
- p. 51 …Disappeared in 19 47
By William Claiborne
Washington Poat Staff Writer
Where television's "Unsolved Mysteries…
- p. 55 …from our National Security Analysis group in
washington, D.C. If you have any questions concerning…
- p. 63 …SAF/FMPF
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON OC
_A_AF/INR
_A_AF/SPO
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- p. 67 OF"F'1C£ 0~ THE SECRETARY
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON DC 20330-1000
MEMORANDUM…
- p. 68 OFF'ICE OF" TME SECRETA~Y
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON DC 20330-1000
MEMORANDUM…
- p. 72 …552}
Department of the Air Force
HQ OSAF/DADF
Washington, DC 20380
RE: ALIEN BUMANOIDS/OFO…
- p. 75 …of its
license by government officials in Washington, DC, if it
broadcast the story about the…
- p. 81 DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON DC
MEMORANDUM FOR SAF/AAZ…
- p. 85 OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON DC
MEMORANDUM FOR SAF/AA…
- p. 89 …HQ USAF/XOWP
1490 Air Force Pentagon
Washington DC 20330-1490
SUBJECT: GAO Review on Records…
- p. 93 OF"F"ICE OF" THE SECRETARY
SAF/AAIQ
1610 Air Force
Washington, DC
MEMORANDUM FOR
DEPARTMENT…
- p. 101 …and Records Administration (NARA),
either at the Washington National Records Center (WNRq or the Southwest Regional…
- p. 108 …Hartzop, Jr.,
Arrrr:r Air Forces, Washington, D. c., .arrived .for investi-
gation of the B…
- p. 133 HEADQUARTERS, ARMY AIR FORCES
WASHINGTON
SUBJECT: Iuuance o! Ordera
!01 Couaa8.1ng General
.A.1r Materiel…
- p. 159 …24 May 94 Place: ,Washington
:..p.f'/ I Sheridan W.Cavitt, hereby state that Richard L…
- p. 168 …I don't remember anybody from Washington coming there. It's possible that somebody came
over…
- p. 169 …maybe
somewhere to an Air Force Base up here in Washington.
MC: Fort Lewis, I think…
- p. 170 …It's in the Washington DC area. I forget since I was there in the Washington…
- p. 178 …Yeah, but you said you would have known if anybody from Washington had come into your…
- p. 179 normal course of his duty was sent to Washington not 8th Air Force in Fort Worth…
- p. 195 …COITDllal'lding General, Army Air Forces, Washington 25, D.C.
THRU& (AC/A5-4)
1. To…
- p. 241 …Not ever in Washington?
- p. 242 …I visited people in Washington.
Q: Just for the record, ·Major Marcel later worked at
AFOAT…
- p. 300 …Center for Military History, 14th St NW Washington DC
Dr Bennett, Curator
DrDrea
Ms Hannah Zeidlik…
- p. 317 DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON OC 20330-1000
OFFICt: OF THE ~ECRETARY
JUL 2 7…
- p. 709 …of Phase II be presented to the Washington Subcommittee for
clearance with all other Regional Airspace…
- p. 712 …coordination was effected
with the Washington Airspace SUbcommittee tmmediately subsequent to our
Meeting #12. It "WaS…
- p. 723 …on representative preaeurea and temperatures
taken from Washington, Albuquerque, Pittsburgh and Lakehurst soundings.
Individual variations from…
- p. 731 …538, National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics, Washington, D. c. September, 1935.
8. Timoshenko, MacCullough, Elements of…
- p. 791 …of Phase II be presented to the Washington Subcommittee for
clearance with all other Hegional Airspace…
- p. 792 …That the Washington Airspace Subcommittee present the Phase
II operation to other Regional Airspace Subcommittees for…
- p. 807 …Peoples in Washington regarding balloon ascention in June, Made plans
for flight 20 which was made…
- p. 809 …At 0930 went up J.o Math DQ&rtment at NYU - Washington
Square. Met Mr Bennett…
- p. 978 …was transported to Andrews AAF,
MD (near Washington, DC), to be examined by high government officials…
- p. 992 Eiffel Tower
PARIS
1056ft
Washington Monument
WASHINGTON, D.C.
555ft
Statue
of Liberty
NEW YORK HARBOR…
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.