“Nevers”49 pages
- p. 17 …of alien beings and elusive vehicles which never quite
seem to manifest themselves. Regardless of one…
- p. 31 …Conversely, there
has never been any previous documentary evidence produced by those who
would debunk the…
- p. 32 …This had never been
officially done before, although most of the persons contacted reported that they…
- p. 40 …Lt Col Cavitt also
stated that he had never taken any oath or signed any agreement…
- p. 77 …Because this conclusion is based on
the absence of documentation, the issue can never be definitively…
- p. 99 …H written, there is
good evidence through accessioning and microfilming records that the Agency never
received…
- p. 101 …histories and
supporting documents, and it has never routinely received the kind of records which
might…
- p. 159 …I have never been sworn to any form of secrecy by anyone concerning this matter and…
- p. 165 …It never crossed my mind that it could be anything but a radio sonde.
RW: How…
- p. 168 …as far as I knew, I never heard anyone say, "Don't talk about this
and…
- p. 169 …I never met LaPaz personally, but I knew what he was.
RW: Did Rickett go with…
- p. 170 …I forget since I was there in the Washington
area for awhile but I never did…
- p. 172 …To the best of my recollection, I never met the rancher, Brazel.
RW: O.K., because…
- p. 173 …rve never seen a Geiger counter myseU: but I didn't know if you knew what…
- p. 174 …ordered Marcel to accompany the rancher back
to Corona, •· You said you never saw... and then…
- p. 175 …I never had any idea that it was anything with the V-2. They told us…
- p. 177 …You and I never saw this. You don't see
any military people or military vehicles…
- p. 178 …said in a facetious way: "Lets make out like it never existed, because we're wasting…
- p. 179 …to him the crash and recovery had never happened.
There was no investigation on the Foster…
- p. 182 …No, I never saw this.
SC: I don't know what that is from.
RW: "But…
- p. 183 …So, some of there
records were TS and still are.) That is because they have never…
- p. 185 …Cav never
told me anything. He said nl never tell you anything then you won't…
- p. 189 …I am quite sure that we never gave it a thought until that book.
- p. 190 …Now, we have never found the ftight records to
substantiate that, so I don't know…
- p. 202 …related
to this inquicy and I have never been threatened by US Government persons concerning not…
- p. 207 …related to this inquiry
and I have never been threatened by US Government persons concerning refraining…
- p. 213 …We never considered a ..planneq cover story; we were concerned with security.
I was the project…
- p. 214 …I never obsCJVed any of the balloon "trains" but I
did see some of the early…
- p. 225 …and subsequent models were
brand new, had never flown anything like that in this area.
A…
- p. 228 …I'd never heard the
name Mogul -- the classification was that high. I knew what we…
- p. 240 …I just wanted to see
if there had been anything stated to you never to discuss…
- p. 242 …but I never knew Marcel.
in my mind, and there are
Yeah, I knew that guy…
- p. 243 …I've never seen a Japanese balloon that I know
of, I've never seen the…
- p. 246 …No, I've never seen this.
Trakowski argued that even the name Mogul was classified,
and…
- p. 249 …Out PM with
several NYU men by weapons carrier, but we never located it.
Rocket postponed…
- p. 264 …As far as I know we just
never interfaced with the military.
Q: Where were you…
- p. 266 …We never saw
anybody in security. There was certainly nobody keeping us
secure. If anything, we…
- p. 273 …who was writing a story,
and I never quite could determine whether he was on the…
- p. 274 …I have never seen such a document nor have I ever heard of
any effort to…
- p. 277 …radar
reflectors for tracking purposes-but it never comes out talking about MOGUL and the instrumentation…
- p. 278 …I never met Richard Robert Crane. I knew him only by the path of debris he…
- p. 282 …They never said it, but I know they did because they left me free to
do…
- p. 318 …Before now, however, a larger portion of the story was never
told. Recent research indicates that…
- p. 320 …and Project MOGUL as first conceived was never put into operational 1use.
However, MOGUL did serve…
- p. 321 …Moore, NYU Constant-Level
Balloon Project Engineer, stated that they were never informed of the classified…
- p. 567 …and this flight 11as never recovered. Pre-
sumably the marked easterly flow then observed above 60…
- p. 591 …ficienoy since on-ot.f' operation was never per-
mitted.
The temperature data of' these flights…
- p. 740 …The theodolite lost the balloon in clouds earlier and
the airplane observer never succeeded in seeing…
- p. 815 …Out pm with several NYU by weapon carrier but we never located it. Rocket
postponed until…
136 J 0 C lC'\ :\ L 0 F :\1 E T E 0 R 0 L 0 G Y VoLUME 5
temperature-compensate the diaphragm, the other to
insulate and shield the valve from radiation.
Using the ceiling-control system, flights of less than
24 hours not passing through sunset, may be held at
ceiling by use of a nonextensible balloon and a simple
fixed rate of leak to over-compensate diiTusion losses.
The constancy of level will be better the lower the
diffusion and the lower, therefore, the rate of rise of
the ceiling. The automatic control is needed for flights
lasting through a period in which day changes to night.
8. Preliminary trajectory analysis of two constant-
level balloon flights, 7 July 19477
The most striking feature of the constant-level bal-
loon flight (Flight 11, fig. 9) originating at Alamogordo
Army _-\ir Base at 05hQ8m MST 8 on 7 July 1947 is the
disagreement between the actual trajectory and the
trajectory that might have been estimated from routine
upper-wind reports. In this connection the observations
from the \Veather Bureau stations at El Paso, RosweH,
and .-\lbuquerque have been examined, since the path
of the balloon was contained within the triangle formed
7 The authors are indebted to Prof. G. Emmons for contributing
the major part of this section.
8 .Mountain Standard Time-105th meridian civil time. All
further time references will be tacitly MST.
I
N Trajectory
Scale 0
by these stations. Over El Paso, the wind direction
at 16,000 ft (the approximate average altitude of the
balloon during the greater part of the flight) was
approximately SW at 03h, ESE at 09\ and ESE at
15h. Over Roswell, the apparent average wind direction
at 16,000 ft was S during this period. Over Albuquerque,
which was considerably farther from the path of the
balloon than the other two stations, the wind direction
at 16,000 ft was variable between WSW and SSE during
the interval from OJh to 15h. In contrast with these
observations is the fact that the constant-level balloon
floated in an essentially steady \VSW current between
06h and 09h.
In fig. 8 the wind observations at 16,000 ft have been
plotted for El Paso, Roswell, and Albuquerque for 03h,
09h, and 15h. The wind directions at 14,000 ft, 16,000
ft, and 18,000 ft (only the intermediate level is shown
in the figure) are all contained in the 150-degree sector
between directions 90° and 240°; yet the mean motion
of the balloon (approximately 265°) between 05h48m
and 13hll m falls entirely outside this sector.
An indication that this local WSW current was of
small depth is given by a special upper-wind observa-
tion made at White Sands at about 13h. The observa-
tion in question recorded a wind direction of 250° at
16,000 ft, which is in excellent agreement with the first
D
Ros-11
. IRoswell
AAF
FIG. 9. Height-distance curve and planned trajectory of balloon Flight 11. Released at Alamogordo, New Mexico,
7 July 1947, at 0508 MST. (Numerals on curves indicate minutes after release.)