“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…
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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…
tion in the sunlight, turning from a milky white to a dark brown. He described
finding remains of balloon trains with reflectors and payloads that had landed in
the desert: the ruptured and shredded neoprene would "almost look like dark
gray or black flakes or ashes after exposure to the sun for only a few days. The
plasticizers and antioxidants in the neoprene would emit a peculiar acrid odor
and the balloon material and radar target material would be scattered after
returning to earth depending on the surface winds." Upon review of the local
newspaper photographs from General Ramey's press conference in 1947 and
descriptions in popular books by individuals who supposedly handled the debris
recovered on the ranch, Professor Moore opined that the material was most likely
the shredded remains of a multi-neoprene balloon train with multiple radar
reflectors. The material and a "black box," described by Cavitt, was, in Moore's
scientific opinion, most probably from Flight 4, a "service flight" that included a
cylindrical metal sonobuoy and portions of a weather instrument housed in a box,
which was unlike typical weather radiosondes which were made of cardboard.
Additionally, a copy of a professional journal maintained at the time by A.P.
Crary, provided to the Air Force by his widow, showed that Flight 4 was
launched on June 4, 1947, but was not recovered by the NYU group. It is very
probable that this Top Secret project balloon train (Flight 4), made up of unclassi-
fied components, came to rest some miles northwest of Roswell, NM, became
shredded in the surface winds, and was ultimately found by the rancher, Brazel,
ten days later. This possibility was supported by the observations of Lt Col Cavitt
(Atchs 17-18), the only living eyewitness to the actual debris field and the
material found. Lt Col Cavitt described a small area of debris which appeared, "to
resemble bamboo type square sticks one quarter to one half inch square, that were
very light, as well as some sort of metallic reflecting material that was also very
light .... I remember recognizing this material as being consistent with a weather
balloon."
Concerning the initial announcement, "RAAF Captures Flying Disc," research
failed to locate any documented evidence as to why that statement was made.
However, on July 10, 1947, following the Ramey press conference, the Alamogordo
News published an article with photographs demonstrating multiple balloons and
targets at the same location as the NYU group operated from at Alamogordo
Army Air Field. Professor Moore expressed surprise at seeing this since his was
the only balloon test group in the area. He stated, "It appears that there was some
type of umbrella cover story to protect our work with MOGUL." Although the Air
Force did not find documented evidence that Gen. Ramey was directed to
espouse a weather balloon in his press conference, he may have done so because
he was either aware of Project MOGUL and was trying to deflect interest from it,
or he readily perceived the material to be a weather balloon based on the
identification from his weather officer, Irving Newton. In either case, the materials
recovered by the AAF in July, 1947, were not readily recognizable as anything
special (only the purpose was special), and the recovered debris itself was
unclassified. Additionally, the press dropped its interest in the matter as quickly
as they had jumped on it. Hence, there would be no particular reason to further
document what quickly became a "non-event."
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