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• Holloman AFB Place · 5 stories

  An air base in New Mexico, and a launch point for things that later filled the sky.

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• The Roswell Report: Case Closed Report
  Internet Archive· 232 pages· 2 pages mention it
  • p. 170 …I also worked on the Moby Dick Project that collected meteorological data and the classified Gopher (119L) reconnaissance project. I…
  • p. 224 . Summary Report Project Moby Dick: Covered Wagon Balloon Launcher Development and Test Results, HDT-21, 1952. AD 001124 . Techniques Developed…
• The Roswell Report: Case Closed Report
  Internet Archive· 232 pages· 2 pages mention it
  • p. 170 …I also worked on the Moby Dick Project that collected meteorological data and the classified Gopher (119L) reconnaissance project. I…
  • p. 224 . Summary Report Project Moby Dick: Covered Wagon Balloon Launcher Development and Test Results, HDT-21, 1952. AD 001124 . Techniques Developed…
• The Roswell Report: Case Closed Report
  US Air Force· 1997· 234 pages· 1 page mentions it
  • p. 224 --. Summary Report Project MoBY DicK: Covered Wagon Balloon Launcher Development and Test Results, HDT-21, 1952. --. Techniques Developed for Heavy…
• 65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 SUB A Official release
  Federal Bureau of Investigation· 124 pages· 1 page mentions it
  • p. 42 …was actually a Moby Dick drift- Balloons have also carried Since the big helium-filled ing along at about 90…
• The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (Nicap) FOIA release
  Central Intelligence Agency· 2001-03-12· 186 pages· 1 page mentions it
  • p. 100 …Huge "Moby Dick" plastic balloons (named after Melville's legendary whale) used for high altitude research are pyramidal in form…