“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…
ALAMOGORDO II Gune 27, 1947-July 8, 1947)
On the morning of June 28, 1947, personnel from NYU and Watson Laboratories
arrived at Alamogordo AAF to resume balloon flights. Present during this field
trip were Dr. Peoples, A.P. Crary, Captain Trakowski, C.B. Moore, and Charles
Schneider. The objective during this trip was to experiment with the newly
developed polyethylene balloons which replaced the neoprene meteorological
balloons used on the previous field trip. Also tested was an improved aluminum
ballast reservoir that had been developed to replace the plastic tubes used during
the June field trip. 32 Another improvement that resulted from the experiences in
June was the presence of a radiosonde receiver/recorder for improved balloon
tracking and plotting. This eliminated the need for radar "comer reflectors" on
the balloon train since radar was not to be used as a primary method of tracking
the flights. This is confirmed by Technical Report No. 1, Table VII, "Radiosonde
Reception%," which indicates the use of the radiosonde recorder on all flights
except for no. 7. Flight no. 7 was not recorded by radiosonde because the
equipment was not operable.33 Also Figures 36, 39, 42, and 44 in Technical Report
No. 1, corresponding to the July flights, do not depict comer reflectors. All·
numbered flights (except for no. 9) flown during the July field trip were summa-
rized in NYU Technical Report No 1, Table VII. Flight no. 9 appeared to have
been launched on July 3.34 On July 8, their work completed, 23 members of the
combined NYU and Watson Laboratory group boarded a C-54 aircraft at 1030 AM
and returned to the east coast.35
Based on the above, it appeared likely that the debris found by the rancher and
was subsequently identified as a "flying disc" by personnel from Roswell AAF
was, with a great degree of certainty, MOGUL flight no. 4, launched on June 4,
1947. This conclusion was based on the following:
1. Descriptions of the debris provided by Brazel, Cavitt, Crary's diary, and the
photos of the material displayed in General Ramey's office. These materials were
consistent with the components of a MOGUL service flight, with neoprene
balloons, parchment parachutes, plastic ballast tubes, comer reflectors, a sona-
buoy, and a black electronics box that housed the pressure cutoff switch (Atch 3).
2. According to Brazel's July 8 statement, the debris was recovered on June 14,
obviously eliminating any balloons launched in July.
3. Only two flights launched in June were unaccounted for, i.e., flight nos. 3 and
4. Flight no. 3, most likely would not have had the "unorthodox" configuration
of comer reflectors devised by Moore, who did not arrive until June 1, three days
after flight no. 3 was launched.
32. NYU, Progress Report No. 7, Sect II, p. 5.
33. Crary personal journal, p. 15.
34. Ibid.
35. Ibid., p. 16.