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Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay (left) and Brig. Gen. Roger M. Ramey are shown here while serving in Kharagpur, India, during World War II. U.S. Air Force Photo.
General Curtis E. LeMay was Deputy Chief of Air Staff for Research and Development, U.S. Army Air Forces, in 1947, and later Chief of Staff, United States Air Force, 1961–1965. As Deputy Chief of Air Staff for Research and Development, LeMay had a strong influence on the high-priority Project MOGUL (see Apps 8 and 9). He also maintained close associations throughout his career with former subordinates from World War II bombing campaigns, including Brig. Gen. Roger M. Ramey and Col. William H. Blanchard.
Brig. Gen. Roger M. Ramey was the Commanding General, Eighth Air Force, in 1947. He is alleged to have participated in the cover-up of the recovery of an extraterrestrial vehicle by substituting debris from an ordinary weather balloon for that of an alien spacecraft. In fact, General Ramey displayed the original debris recovered from the ranch, which came from a MOGUL balloon train. Ramey withheld only the components that would have compromised the highly sensitive project (see Atch 16).