roswell

PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/~/94 32
from north hangar and from Cloudcroft for awhile. Nothing from
Roswell.
"On Thursday morning, July Jrd, a cluster of GM plastic
balloons sent up for v-2 recording, but V-2 not fired. No shots
fired. Balloons up for some time."
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too?
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I •m going
What is a shot?
Explosive on the ground.
You were doing explosives on the ground in New Mexico
crary.
so Crary would give you the signal, he'd say at 0400
to launch a balloon, and at 0500 I'm going to •••
A: No, he wouldn't launch a balloon. I'd launch a
balloon. What Peoples would do is say I want a flight up
tomorrow morning. So the NYU group would get ready to make a
flight, and then Crary would go out with his crew and fire
explosives up and down the Tulerosa Basin while our balloons were
in the air.
Q: so you had multiple explosions on the ground, the V-
2 •••
A: And explosions on the East Coast.
Q: On the East Coast, caribbean, and you had those timed
so you knew when those were going to take place and you were
simply waiting for •••
A: They had them timed and we balloon types just fit into
the schedule. But th~~~ster, the timin~, bringin~.all this
together, we knew nothing about. We were just scheduled to fly
balloons.
Q:
winds. But you did want to launch early morning for the light
A: We did want to launch early in the morning for light
wind. We had freedom to tell them what we could do and what we
couldn't do. We actually on this, in addition to everything
else, we actually flew blocks of TNT on free balloons and fired
them while we had other balloons in the air.
Q: Did those have radar targets on them also?
A: Probably.
Q: Were those detonated by •••