“Project 1947”60+ pages
- p. 3 …The importance of attachment 32, Lieutenant McAndrew's synopsis, derives from his
description of Project MOGUL…
- p. 13 …Photographs, Project MOGUL Balloon Trains
27. Table No.7, Summary of NYU Constant-Level Balloon Flights…
- p. 14 …Crane as Project Officer for MOGUL and TORRID, June 18,
1946
9. Memo, Maj Gen Curtis…
- p. 25 …Records were located and
thoroughly explored concerning a then-Top Secret balloon project, designed to
attempt…
- p. 27 USAF in September, 1947, the USAF inherited equipment, personnel, records,
policies, and procedures from the AAF…
- p. 29 …EVOLUTION OF THE EVENT FROM 1947 TO THE PRESENT
General Ramey's press conference and rancher…
- p. 31 …This included directing searches at current offices where special or
unusual projects might be carried out…
- p. 35 …USAF records showed that between June 24,
1947, and July 28, 1947, there were five crashes…
- p. 41 …Its name was Project MOGUL (Atch 19).
Project MOGUL was a then-sensitive, classified project, whose…
- p. 42 …These interviews confirmed that Project MOGUL was a compartmented,
sensitive effort. The NYU group was responsible…
- p. 43 …It is very
probable that this Top Secret project balloon train (Flight 4), made up of…
- p. 44 …Trakowski provided specific details on Project MOGUL and described
how the security for the program was…
- p. 45 In order to provide a more detailed discussion of the specifics of Project MOGUL
and how…
- p. 48 …Copy of Vandenberg's Appointment Book and Diary, July 7-9, 1947
16. July 9, 1947…
- p. 51 …Schiff
complaiiled then that the Defense Department
had been "unresponsive" to his inquiries about
the 1947…
- p. 73 …of the
physicians who participated in this project. I must respect his
confidentially and anonymity. He…
- p. 74 •Freedom of Information Act Request
February 5, 1993
Paqe 3 of 3
PROJECT SIGMA
The project…
- p. 76 SUMMARY OF HQ NAIC RESEARCH INTO THE ROSWELL INCIDENT,
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING SAUCERS, AND PROJECT BLUE BOOK…
- p. 78 …study
project officer from 1951-1953 and he investigated a series of reports from 1947. He…
- p. 104 …assWted command
of Ro..;\vell .~rmy Air Field on e July 1947. Colo·nel i1. H…
- p. 106 …Headqt~':'.!"ters, this station,
datod 18 July 1947. 1st Lt. Lewis c. Bohanan. former commanding o…
- p. 108 …Officer and AACS, regarding Headquarters
AMC projects.
22 July- 1947 - Dr. E. M. Townsexrl, PBS, Ft…
- p. 183 …There was a project run by New York University, out ofHoDoman at that time. It
was…
- p. 196 …Plans .for rasearoh on Project "t.t>cuJ. 1 " z. c. lS:~.-ll, priority
lA, include…
- p. 201 …On the December 1947 baUoon project reports the
"service flights" probably refer to the then Top…
- p. 205 …GeNII was the Project Engineer for the NYU balloon project during the 1947 time frame. I…
- p. 206 …Dr Crazy and Dr Peoples were the advance people and scientific monitors for our project Dr…
- p. 213 …I have also been contacted by several researchers and writers and discussed project Mogul
and provided…
- p. 217 Transcript from 8 June 94, Interview with
Professor Charles Moore
(A) Professor Charles Moore
Project Engineer…
- p. 218 …Is there any type of
material from that project that you can think of that would…
- p. 226 …so essentially you'd say there were no radar reflectors
in New Mexico until 1947 until…
- p. 246 …We got into an operation at Alamagordo in early June of 1947, in
which we were…
- p. 261 …It
turns out that during this time frame, 1947, 1948, 1949, there
were numerous aircraft accidents…
- p. 275 …I remained project officer of Project MOGUL through our move of the
laboratory from Watson Laboratories…
- p. 281 …At some point in Project MOGUL did you utilize equipment based at Roswell Army Air
Field…
- p. 299 …B-29 crashed on T/0 from Albuquerque in Jan
1947 and a B-29 crashed…
- p. 300 …Archivist (202) 504-5416
"no records of Project Mogul; recommend checking with DOE historian or the…
- p. 309 …However, I was familiar with them
because we used them and their products on various projects…
- p. 318 …1947.4 An examination of unclassified technical and
progress reports prepared by the balloon project revealed…
- p. 320 …in
January 1947, is shown in Attachment 2. Over the course of the project, MOGUL
had…
- p. 321 Air Forces, in conjunction with Project MOGUL. 10 The NYU "balloon group" was
to develop and…
- p. 322 …June 1, 1947.19 Present Olll this
flight was C.B. Moore, NYU Project Engineer, Charles…
- p. 323 …Dr Peoples, Project
Scientist, decided not to bring the radiosonde recorder (an AN IFMQ1 weighing
approximately…
- p. 326 …Over the course of Project MoGUL,
several balloons had landed and been recovered from that area…
- p. 328 …Additionally, in 1949, General Yates received a full briefing bf the
projects, including constant-level balloons…
- p. 329 …Pritchard, a Watson Laboratory Project Officer (not assigned to MOGUL)
stationed at Alamogordo AAF. This article…
- p. 330 …One instance, on April 7, 1947, Crary gave Pritchard
a "progress report for MOGUL project to…
- p. 418 …From September 1946 to Januar,r 1947, Colonel Dut!7 WRI in charge of
apnlled nropagation…
- p. 444 …was decided, during the autumn of 1947 to present the meteorological
diagnoses in a different form…
- p. 708 …20 March 1947
N. Y. Meeting No. 12
PROBLEM:
1. The Secretary of the Subcommittee presented…
- p. 747 …1, 1947 to
Ma7 31, 1947
§tqttoa II
tt.aearch D1'fie ion, ProJect 1fo. 93…
- p. 758 …January 1, 1947
to April 30, 1947
CONSTANT LEVEL BALLOON
Research Division, Project No. 93
Preoared…
- p. 776 …The project ~rsomlel !las been usiiU:; work bencl:.ea occ;.i.9ied
by other projc:cts…
- p. 790 …12. :20 l11arch 1947
PROBLEM:
1. The Secretary of t~e Subcommittee presented a request from…
- p. 819 …June 1, 1947 to
June 31, 19"7
Section II
Research Division, ProJect No. 9S
Prepared…
- p. 975 …Army Air Forces, in 1947, and later Chief of Staff,
United States Air Force, 1961-1965…
- p. 979 …break during
Project MOGUL operations at White
Sands Proving Ground, NM, July
1947.
Project MOGUL Field…
- p. 982 …the
NYU field trip in June 1947
prompted Project Engineer C.B.
Moore to attach additional…
- p. 983 …Moore, NYU Constant-Level Balloon Project Engineer. Moore pio-
neered the use of polyethylene balloons for…
- p. 984 …Sands Proving Ground, NM, in July 1947, by Project
MOGUL balloon and ground-based sensors. Photo…
Air Forces, in conjunction with Project MOGUL. 10 The NYU "balloon group" was
to develop and fly constant-level balloons while simultaneously developing
telemetering equipment to transmit data obtained in the upper atmosphere. 11
Group members launched, tracked, and recorded data only in regard to constant-
level balloon flight and telemetering of information. They did not have access to
observations and measurements that had military applications. MOGUL, in other
words, was conducted as a compartmented, classified project in which partici-
pants knew only what they needed to know, and no more. Due to the compart-
mentation, balloon flights made by NYU were divided into two categories,
"research" and "service."12 Research flights tested balloon controls and telemeter-
ing systems and were fully reported in the unclassified NYU reports. 13 A total of
110 research flights were flown during the contract. Service flights were flown at
the direction of Watson Laboratory personnel, but the military purpose was Top
Secret. These flights carried classified equipment, which could not be fully
reported in the unclassified NYU documents. Further evidence of the exclusion
of classified information from the reports is the lack of data for balloons flown in
association with the Sandstone nuclear tests held in April and May of 1948.14 In
recent interviews with former NYU personnel, Dr. Athelstan F. Spilhaus, NYU
Director of Research, and Professor Charles B. Moore, NYU Constant-Level
Balloon Project Engineer, stated that they were never informed of the classified
name, MOGUL, nor did they ever have access to the scientific data that was
obtained by the USAAF as a result of their efforts. In response to inquiries,
professional or casual, project personnel simply said that they were engaged in
balloon research. 15
The first balloon launches associated with Project MOGUL were carried out at
several locations on the east coast of the United States.16 However, unfavorable
winds, conflicts with commercial air traffic, and the need to gather data on the V-
2 flights currently being conducted at White Sands Proving Ground, NM, led the
NYU group to conduct further tests from Alamogordo AAFY The NYU group
would make three "field trips" during the summer of 1947 for test and evaluation,
labeling them Alamogordo I, II, and Ill. The majority of the balloon flights over
the next four years originated from Alamogordo AAF.
10. Research Division, College of Engineering, NYU, Technical Report No. 93.03, Constant Level
Balloons, Final Report, Mar 1, 1951 (hereafter NYU, Final Report), p. 3.
11. Research Division, College of Engineering, NYU, Technical Report 93-02, Constant Level
Balloons,
Sect 1, General, Nov 15, 1949, p. 5.
12. NYU, Final Report, p. 13.
13. Research Division, College of Engineering, NYU, Technical Report No. 1, Constant Level
Balloon, Apr 1, 1948, Table VII, "Summary of NYU Constant-Level Balloon Flights" (hereafter
NYU, Technical Report No. 1, Table VII); ibid., Technical Report No. 93.02, Constant Level Balloons,
Sect 3, Summary of Flights.
14. "Sonic Balloon Test Kwajalein."
15. Athelstan F. Spilhaus, C.S. Schneider, C.B. Moore, "Controlled-Altitude Free Balloons,"
Journal of Meteorology, 5 (Aug 1948): 130-137.
16. NYU, Technical Report No. 1, Table VII.
17. Research Division, College of Engineering, NYU, Progress Report No. 6, Constant Level
Balloon, Sect II, June 1947 (hereafter Progress Report No. 6, Sect II), p. 4.