“Moore”60+ pages
- p. 6 …Special thanks go to Athelstan and Kathy Spilhaus, Charles
and Wilma Moore, Col. Albert and Jean…
- p. 12 …June 3, 1994
21. Statement, Charles B. Moore, June 8, 1994, and Hieroglyphic and Balloon
Train…
- p. 13 …8, 1946
10. Hieroglyphic Drawing, Charles B. Moore, August 28, 1992
11. Alamogordo News, "Fantasy of…
- p. 14 …F. Spilhaus, C.S. Schneider, C.B. Moore, "Controlled-Altitude
Free Balloons," Journal of Meteorology, Vol…
- p. 15 …Trakowski and Dr. James Peoples
Charles B. Moore
U.S. Army GR-3 Sound Ranging Set…
- p. 18 …contributions to Antarctic research; and Charles B. Moore, Project
Engineer at NYU and an atmospheric physicist…
- p. 29 …crashed UFO. Similarly, two authors, William L.
Moore and Charles Berlitz, also engaged in research which…
- p. 31 …The Roswell Incident
(1980) by William Moore and Charles Berlitz; "Crashed Saucers: Evidence in
Search of…
- p. 41 …Additionally, transcripts of the interview with Moore and Trakowski are also
included (equipment malfunctioned during the…
- p. 42 …The interview with Professor Moore indicated
that these gaps were the unlogged "service flights."
Professor Moore…
- p. 43 …The material and a "black box," described by Cavitt, was, in Moore's
scientific opinion, most…
- p. 44 …device. These
persons included Professor Charles B. Moore, Robert Todd, and coincidentally,
Karl Pflock, a researcher…
- p. 45 …An actual
device was also obtained for study with the assistance of Professor Moore. (The
example…
- p. 48 …Signed Sworn Statement of Moore, June 8, 1994
22. Signed Sworn Statement of Trakowski, June 29…
- p. 171 …Berlitz and Moore?
MC: Now, you see, he was here at the house. I've heard…
- p. 185 …Was it with Berlitz and Moore?
SC: Our son sent this book to us.
RW: This…
- p. 201 …I recommend you check with Charlie Moore for
those details. Many of the projects I just…
- p. 203 21
Statement, with Hieroglyphic and
Balloon Train Drawings
Charles B. Moore
June 8, 1994
- p. 205 …NM
C/3!_4
I, Charles B Moore, hereby state that Jeffrey Buder, was identified as…
- p. 206 …it was in about 1980 that William Moore contacted me and asked questions about
balloons making…
- p. 208 …saw one of these targets more than
20 years ago . )
c.a. Moore
August 28, 1992
- p. 213 …Charlie Moore was primarily responsible for
development of the constant level balloons for lifting the instrument…
- p. 215 …Col Jeffrey Butler and 1st Lt James
McAndrew with Professor Charles
B. Moore
June 8, 1994
- p. 217 Transcript from 8 June 94, Interview with
Professor Charles Moore
(A) Professor Charles Moore
Project Engineer…
- p. 218 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
you've talked with also. Colonel Weaver talked with Sheridan
Cavitt…
- p. 219 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
not leave any creases. This material looks like it would almost…
- p. 220 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
Q: we have tried to reach Colonel Trakowski, and he has…
- p. 221 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 5
A: .•. much of which we can copy and make it…
- p. 222 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 6
Q: w.w. Brazel mentions eyelets which appear in the…
- p. 223 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
A: A guy named Sam Kay formed a company and it…
- p. 224 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
A: That's about two mil polyethylene here.
Q: Obviously, you…
- p. 225 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
At the same time, then Captain Fletcher was assigned •••
Duffy had…
- p. 226 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
strings from these four corners. Obviously, trying to take
something that…
- p. 227 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 11
balloons out of a Goodyear film called pliofilm. It was…
- p. 228 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 12
this manual in '44. I was commissioned in September of…
- p. 229 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 13
A: No, we didn't.
Q: Not a letter or…
- p. 230 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
Q: The early nylon line, would it have degraded, such as…
- p. 231 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 15
June 4th, "Out to Tulerosa Range and fired charges between…
- p. 232 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 16
have ambiguities. You don't know if it went up…
- p. 233 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 17
A: What the wind did.
The description that Brazel gives…
- p. 234 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 18
executive officer of a flight detachment at Newark Airport. I…
- p. 235 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
Q: He was unsuccessful?
A: He was unsuccessful.
Q: What method…
- p. 236 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
Q: How did you come in possession of it?
A: Todd…
- p. 237 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 21
It's of interest, in the Holloman report there's…
- p. 238 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 22
A: No. we were the balloonists. This was all ground…
- p. 239 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 23
Here's a nice paper that came through courtesy of…
- p. 240 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
Q: No.
A: He worked for a Tracer lab and is…
- p. 241 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
A: There's a gray area here. I was certainly aware…
- p. 242 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
A: Oh, yeah. I visited people in Washington.
Q: Just for…
- p. 243 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
Q: But you had them available for study, but you didn…
- p. 244 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 28
Q: so is that pretty much maybe a condition of…
- p. 245 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
Q: The service flights were which ones?
A: The ones carrying…
- p. 246 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
"Excluded are those two tests' special gear in launches which
were…
- p. 247 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 31
Q: so you made your plan in New York to…
- p. 248 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/~/94 32
from north hangar and from Cloudcroft for awhile. Nothing from
Roswell…
- p. 249 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
A: By a pressure switch.
Q: were those tracked? Was there…
- p. 250 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 34
miles. Then he had Don Edmondson went to Silver City…
- p. 251 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 35
A: Brush recorders. (Strip charge) recorders feeding out
at high…
- p. 252 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
Brazel gives the impression that it is the smoky rubber of…
- p. 253 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
A: As I say, I find it hard to think that…
figures on the sticks, lavender or pink in color, appeared to be weather faded
markings, with no rhyme or reason [sic]. He did not convince me that these were
alien writings." Newton concluded his statement by relating that" ... During the
ensuing years I have been interviewed by many authors, I have been quoted and
misquoted. The facts remain as indicated above. I was not influenced during the
original interview, nor today, to provide anything but what I know to be true,
that is, the material I saw in General Ramey's office was the remains of a balloon
and a RAWIN target."
Balloon Research
The original tasking from GAO noted that the search for information included
"weather balloons." Comments about balloons and safety reports have already
been made; however the SAF I AAZ research efforts also focused on reviewing
historical records involving balloons, since, among other reasons, that was what
was officially claimed by the AAF to have been found and recovered in 1947.
As early as February 28, 1994, the AAZD research team found references to
balloon tests taking place at Alamogordo Army Air Field (now Holloman AFB)
and White Sands during June and July 1947, testing "constant level balloons" and
a New York University (NYU)/Watson Labs effort that used" ... meteorological
devices . . . suspected for detecting shock waves generated by Soviet nuclear
explosions"-a possible indication of a cover story associated with the NYU
balloon project. Subsequently, a 1946 HQ AMC memorandum surfaced, describ-
ing the constant altitude balloon project and specified that the scientific data be
classified Top Secret Priority 1A. Its name was Project MOGUL (Atch 19).
Project MOGUL was a then-sensitive, classified project, whose purpose was to
determine the state of Soviet nuclear weapons research. This was the early Cold
War period and there was serious concern within the US government about the
Soviets' developing a weaponized atomic device. Because the Soviet Union's
borders were closed, the US Government sought to develop a long range nuclear
explosion detection capability. Long range, balloon-borne, low frequency acoustic
detection was posed to General Spaatz in 1945 by Dr. Maurice Ewing of Columbia
University as a potential solution (atmospheric ducting of low frequency pressure
waves had been studied as early as 1900).
As part of the research into this matter, AAZD personnel located and obtained
the original study papers and reports of the New York University project. Their
efforts also revealed that some of the individuals involved in Project MOGUL were
still living. These persons included the NYU constant altitude balloon Director of
Research, Dr. Athelstan F. Spilhaus; the Project Engineer, Professor Charles B.
Moore; and the military Project Officer, Colonel Albert C. Trakowski.
All of these persons were subsequently interviewed and signed sworn statements
about their activities. A copy of theses statements are appended at Atchs 20-22.
Additionally, transcripts of the interview with Moore and Trakowski are also
included (equipment malfunctioned during the interview of Spilhaus) (Atchs
25