“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…
On July 7, as the NYU group members were winding down their worlk and
preparing to return to New York City, a train of events began to unfold at
Roswell AAF, 60 miles away. Roswell AAF was home of the 509th Bomb Group
of the Strategic Air Command's Eighth Air Force, the only unit in the :world
capable of delivering nuclear weapons. It now appears that the debris from
MOGUL flight no. 4 had come ·to earth on the plains east of the Sacramento
Mountains, about 70 miles from the launch point at Alamogordo AAF (Atch 7).
The fact it descended there was not unusual. Over the course of Project MoGUL,
several balloons had landed and been recovered from that area. In fact, in August
1947, the NYU group had to receive special permission from the Civil Aero~autics
Administration to continue to launch balloons from Alamogordo AAF, since
"balloons have been descending outside of the area [White Sands PJtoving
Ground] in the vicinity of Roswell, New Mexico."36 According to the sole :living
participant in the recovery, Sheridan Cavitt, he, Major Marcel, and MSgt William
Rickett gathered some of the material, which appeared to resemble "bamboo type
square sticks, one quarter to one half inch square," that was "very light"-reflect-
ing material-and a "black box, like a weather instrument." Cavitt believEjd this
material to be consistent with what he knew to be a weather balloon. This debris,
would soon become, for a short time, the focus of national and even worl~wide
attention when it was thought to be a "flying disc."
On July 8, the same day that the NYU/Watson Laboratory group dewarted
Alamogordo, the Public Information Office of Roswell AAF announced the
recovery of a "flying disc" and that it would be flown to Fort Worth AAF for
further examination, How could experienced military personnel have confl!l,sed a
weather balloon for a "flying disc"? The answer was this was not an ordinary
"weather balloon." Typical weather balloons employed a single, 350:-gram
neoprene balloon and a radiosonde for measuring temperature, atmospheric
pressure, and humidity, housed in a cardboard box. If it was to be tracked by
radar for wind-speed measurement, a single corner reflector was added (Atch 8).
The balloon that was found on the Foster Ranch consisted of as many as 2f3 350-
gram balloons spaced at 20 foot intervals, several radar targets (3 to 5), plastic
ballast tubes, parchment parachutes, a black "cutoff" box containing portions of
a weather instrument, and a sonabuoy (Atch 3). After striking the groun~, the
radar reflectors, constructed of very light materials for minimum weight, would
tear and break apart, spreading out over a large area when pulled across the
ground by balloons that still possessed some buoyancy. It should also be
understood that the term "flying disc" was not at this time synonymous with
"space ship," It denoted a disc-shaped flying object of unknown (or suswected
Soviet) origin.
Before the announcement was made, the "disc" was flown to Fort Worth AAF,
at the direction of Brig Gen Roger Ramey, Commander, Eighth Air Force. General
Ramey personally inspected the "disc," became skeptical, and summoned the base
36. NYU, Technical Report No. 1, Table VII, p. 43.