Capt. Albert C. Trakowski who succeeded Colonel Duffy as MOGUL Project Officer, confirmed in a recent interview that the debris mistaken for part of a flying saucer was flown to Wright Field (now Wright-Patterson AFB) OH, not for scientific analysis as alleged by UFO theorists, but for Colonel Duffy’s personal identification. Photo Courtesy of Col. Albert Trakowski.
MOGUL Project Scientist Dr. James Peoples. Peoples’s decision not to bring the radiosonde tracking equipment for the NYU field trip in June 1947 prompted Project Engineer C.B. Moore to attach additional radar targets to the MOGUL balloon trains. The targets, seldom used in the continental United States, were recovered by the rancher and mistaken to be part of a flying saucer.