“Project Mogul”60+ pages
- p. 3 …The importance of attachment 32, Lieutenant McAndrew's synopsis, derives from his
description of Project MOGUL…
- p. 13 …Photographs, Project MOGUL Balloon Trains
27. Table No.7, Summary of NYU Constant-Level Balloon Flights…
- p. 14 …Crane as Project Officer for MOGUL and TORRID, June 18,
1946
9. Memo, Maj Gen Curtis…
- p. 15 …Army GR-3 Sound Ranging Set, TNT Detonation, and Project MOGUL PT Boat
Project MOGUL Neoprene…
- p. 18 …Project MOGUL resulted from two important post-World War II priorities set by the
Commanding General…
- p. 19 …However, too much activity
was going on for the project to remain completely hidden. A MOGUL…
- p. 25 …balloon project, designed to
attempt to monitor Soviet nuclear tests, known as Project MOGUL. Additionally,
several…
- p. 41 …Its name was Project MOGUL (Atch 19).
Project MOGUL was a then-sensitive, classified project, whose…
- p. 42 …These interviews confirmed that Project MOGUL was a compartmented,
sensitive effort. The NYU group was responsible…
- p. 43 …so because
he was either aware of Project MOGUL and was trying to deflect interest from…
- p. 44 …Trakowski provided specific details on Project MOGUL and described
how the security for the program was…
- p. 45 In order to provide a more detailed discussion of the specifics of Project MOGUL
and how…
- p. 46 …First, the
recovered wreckage was from a Project MOGUL balloon. There were no "alien"
passengers therein…
- p. 48 …Illustration of Project MOGUL "Balloon Trains"
26. Two Photos of Project MOGUL "Balloon Trains"
27. Log…
- p. 183 …It was called Project Mogul.
SC: Never heard of it.
RW: Mogul was designed to run…
- p. 195 …Equipments used in
project "Mogul" are common to other systems or sets that are now class…
- p. 201 …secrecy agreements for various projects, and I understand that this activity
(Mogul, etc. is now declassified…
- p. 205 …I was not
aware that the project had the name MOGUL until1992 when I was contacted…
- p. 206 …The Watson Lab gear was the microphone equipment specifically for MOGUL.
The idea was proposed in…
- p. 213 …I have also been contacted by several researchers and writers and discussed project Mogul
and provided…
- p. 217 …We have gone through many of the various technical
documents related to Project Mogul and some…
- p. 218 …Project Mogul was probably involved in this incident. The
materials that were being used in Mogul…
- p. 220 …it
was offered and was the project officer on Mogul. I have some
paperwork here from…
- p. 226 …proving ground across the Tulerosa Valley; and Project
Mogul.
I joined the NYU group in January…
- p. 237 …So you were the project engineer?
A: I was the project engineer, and Schneider was the…
- p. 241 …I
interpreted that as saying someone was covering up on Mogul.
That was my interpretation when…
- p. 242 …so you went, moving into Mogul, you did go on the June
and July field trips…
- p. 244 …The balloons that you did launch for Project Mogul and
some of the other test balloons…
- p. 246 …Mogul was classified,
and he said it had the same classification as the Manhattan
Project had…
- p. 255 …But the
aircraft operation here was entirely to support Project Mogul.
We didn't consider ourselves…
- p. 273 …The balloon was not a weather balloon, but was then a classified project, Project
MOGUL, which…
- p. 274 …I came into being as
the project officer on Project MOGUL about November of 1946. I…
- p. 275 …I remained project officer of Project MOGUL through our move of the
laboratory from Watson Laboratories…
- p. 278 …But we were
aware of the sensitivity and of the weakness of security in Project MOGUL…
- p. 281 …At some point in Project MOGUL did you utilize equipment based at Roswell Army Air
Field…
- p. 289 26
Photographs
Project MOGUL Balloon Trains
- p. 299 …60's; we have no reference to Project MOGUL"
Ms Betsy xxxxxxxxxx
d) Sperry Hagley Museum…
- p. 300 …Archivist (202) 504-5416
"no records of Project Mogul; recommend checking with DOE historian or the…
- p. 318 …The project's classified code name was MOGUL.
The current investigation discovered that an experimental ba1loon…
- p. 319 PROJECT MOGUL
Project MOGUL was first conceived by Dr. Maurice Ewing of Columbia University,
NY, and…
- p. 320 …Over the course of the project, MOGUL
had three military project officers, or "chiefs": Maj Robert…
- p. 321 Air Forces, in conjunction with Project MOGUL. 10 The NYU "balloon group" was
to develop and…
- p. 322 …advance team made the first launch for Project MOGUL from Alamogordo
(NYU flight no. 3). The…
- p. 323 …Radiosondes, along with aircraft, were to be
the primary method to track the Project MOGUL balloons…
- p. 326 …Over the course of Project MoGUL,
several balloons had landed and been recovered from that area…
- p. 327 …There, it was identified
by Colonel Duffy, under whose purview Project MOGUL operated. Colonel Duffy,
a…
- p. 328 …briefing bf the
projects, including constant-level balloons, that made up Project MOGUL.40 While
crashed…
- p. 329 …Pritchard, a Watson Laboratory Project Officer (not assigned to MOGUL)
stationed at Alamogordo AAF. This article…
- p. 330 …One instance, on April 7, 1947, Crary gave Pritchard
a "progress report for MOGUL project to…
- p. 331 …Project MoGUL Classification Letter
10. Drawing of "Hieroglyphics" by Prof. C.B. Moore
11. Alamogordo Daily…
- p. 411 …Crane as
Project Officer for MOGUL and
TORRID
June 18, 1946
- p. 810 …Gave him memo of progress report
for MOGUL project to date, talked to Lt Dyer of…
- p. 975 …a strong influence on the high-
priority Project MoGUL (see Apps 8 and 9 ). He also…
- p. 979 …Crary (left) and technician
Phil Chantz taking a break during
Project MOGUL operations at White
Sands…
- p. 980 …received and
resulted in the initiation
of Project MOGUL (see
App 6 ). Photo Courtesy of
Woods…
- p. 981 …Marcellus Duffy, a highly capable scientific
research officer, was a MOGUL project officer. Maj. Gen.
Curtis…
- p. 982 MOGUL Project Scientist Dr.
James Peoples. Peoples's deci-
sion not to bring the radiosonde
tracking…
- p. 984 …This modified PT boat that was assigned to Project MOGUL is
shown here off Block Island…
- p. 985 Launch of Project MOGUL neoprene balloons, Alamogordo AAF,
NM, June 1947. While awaiting the experimental polyethylene…
- p. 986 …Moore (right and reaching down) prepares
experimental Project MOGUL microphones for launch (Holloman AFB, Alamogor-
do…
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