“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…
23-24). These interviews confirmed that Project MOGUL was a compartmented,
sensitive effort. The NYU group was responsible for developing constant level
balloons and telemetering equipment that would remain at specified altitudes
(within the acoustic duct) while a group from Columbia was to develop acoustic
sensors. Doctor Spilhaus, Professor Moore, and certain others of the group were
aware of the actual purpose of the project, but they did not know of the project
nickname at the time. They handled casual inquiries and/ or scientific inqui-
ries/papers in terms of "unclassified meteorological or balloon research." Newly
hired employees were not made aware that there was anything special or
classified about their work; they were told only that their work dealt with
meteorological equipment.
An advance ground team, led by Albert P. Crary, preceded the NYU group to
Alamogordo Army Air Field, New Mexico, setting up ground sensors and
obtaining facilities for the NYU group. Upon their arrival, Professor Moore and
his team experimented with various configurations of neoprene balloons;
development of balloon "trains" (see illustration, Atch 25); automatic ballast
systems; and use of Naval sonobuoys (as the Watson Lab acoustical sensors had
not yet arrived). They also launched what they called "service flights." These
"service flights" were not logged nor fully accounted for in the published
Technical Reports generated as a result of the contract between NYU and Watson
Labs. According to Professor Moore, the "service flights" were composed of
balloons, radar reflectors, and payloads specifically designed to test acoustic
sensors (both early sonobuoys and the later Watson Labs devices). The "payload
equipment" was expendable, and some carried no "Reward" or "Return to ... "
tags because there was to be no association between these flights and the logged
constant altitude flights which were fully acknowledged. The NYU balloon flights
were listed sequentially in their reports (i.e., A, B, or 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 ... ), yet gaps
existed for Flights 2-4 and Flight 9. The interview with Professor Moore indicated
that these gaps were the unlogged "service flights."
Professor Moore, the on-scene Project Engineer, gave detailed information
concerning his team's efforts. He recalled that radar targets were used for tracking
balloons because they did not have all the necessary equipment when they first
arrived in New Mexico. Some of the early developmental radar targets were
manufactured by a toy or novelty company. These targets were made up of
aluminum "foil" or foil-backed paper, balsa wood beams that were coated in an
"Elmer's-type" glue to enhance their durability, acetate and/or cloth reinforcing
tape, single strand and braided nylon twine, brass eyelets and swivels to form a
multi-faced reflector somewhat similar in construction to a box kite (see photo-
graphs, Atch 26). Some of these targets were also assembled with purplish-pink
tape with symbols on it (see drawing by Moore with Atch 21).
According to the log summary (Atch 27) of the NYU group, Flight A through
Flight 7 (November 20, 1946-July 2, 1947) were made with neoprene meteorologi-
cal balloons (as opposed to the later flights made with polyethylene balloons).
Professor Moore stated that the neoprene balloons were susceptible to degrada-
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