“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…
designs on it."41 Furthermore, the Fort Worth Army Airfield Weather Officer,
Irving Newton, who was called in to identify the wreckage, also remembers the
purple/pink marks. Newton stated that when he was called to General Ramey's
office he remembers meeting Marcel, who attempted to convince him that the
wreckage on the floor of the office was a crashed "flying disc." Newton, having
seen many weather balloons and targets, positively identified the debris as a
weather device.42 In short, descriptions of the wreckage found on the ranch near
Corona and of the wreckage displayed in General Ramey's office are entirely
consistent with each other. ·
THE REAL COVER STORY
On July 10, 1947, a newspaper article appeared in the Alamogordo Daily News
displaying for the press the devices, neoprene balloons, and comer reflectors
which had been misidentified as the "flying disc" two days earlier at Roswell
AAF (Atch 11). The photographs and accompanying article quoted Maj Wilbur
D. Pritchard, a Watson Laboratory Project Officer (not assigned to MOGUL)
stationed at Alamogordo AAF. This article appeared to have been an attempt to
deflect attention from the Top Secret MOGUL project by publicly displaying a
portion of the equipment and offering misleading information. If there was a
"cover story" involved in this incident, it is this article, not the actions or
statements of Ramey.
The article in the Alamogordo Daily News stated that the balloons and radar targets
had been used for the ·la!)t fifteen months for the training of long-range radar
personnel and the gathering of meteorological data. The article lists four offi-
cers-Maj W.D. Pritchard, Lieut S.W. Seigel, Capt L.H. Dyvad, and Maj C.W.
Mangum-as being involved with the balloon project, which was false. Moore
and Trakowski could not recall any of the officers in the photograph, with the
exception of Dyvad, whom Moore identified as a pilot who coordinated radar
activities.43 Additionally, some of the details discussed (balloon sighting in
Colorado, tracking by B-17s, recovery of equipment, launching balloons at 5-6
AM, and balloon altitudes of 30,000-40,000 feet) relate directly to the NYU balloon
project, indicating that the four officers had detailed knowledge of MOGUL.44
Moore's unorthodox technique of employing several balloons and several radar
targets was shown in one of the photographs. Other techniques unique to Moore,
41. Trakowski intvw, Jun 29, 1994.
42. Newton intvw, Jul21, 1994.
43. Moore intvw, Jun 8, 1994.
44. NYU, Technical Report No. 1, Table VII.