“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…
B. Altitude Control Equipment
Flights of 20-foot General Mills balloons, using no con-
trol equipment, have been sent to altitudes of about
50,000 feet. After reaching maximum altitude, the balloons
all exhibit a tendency to float then descend at an in-
creasing rate for periods of from 2 to 6 hours. In stable
layers of air such as the stratosphere the descent of a
ball.o:on is retarded by the helium, on compression, getting
warmer than the surrounding air. This results in much longer
duration flights requiting no external control though,
strictly speaking, the altitude is not constant. This
concept is in good general agreement with the observed
data; balloons have remained in a semi-floating state
much longer ~p to 30 hours) when in the stratospheric
inversion than when in less stable lower atmospheric
layers.
When it is desired to maintain a balloon at constant
level for a guaranteed period of time in excess of two
hours, a ballast system of altitude control should be
added to the flight gear. The level et which the bal-
loon is to float must be the maximum altitude to which
it can carry the payload. To compensate for loss in buoy-
ancy occasioned by loss of lifting gas through diffusion
and leakage, a continual lightening of the load is re-
quired. To effectthis in a simple fashion, liquid ballast
is permittted to flow through an orifice at a predeter.nined
rate which exceeds the expected loss of lift. (See Section
IV, D) The reservoir and ballast assembly which has
been developed for this use is shown in Figure 6. A de-
tail sketch of the orifice in its mounting is shown as
Figure 7, and F'igure 8 shows a suitable filter which
must be used to protect the orifice from clogging. The
liquid ballast must (1) not freeze, but flow well at
cold temperature (-80°C); (2) not absorb water, which
would freeze; and (3) be relatively inexpensive. A re-
commended liquid is Aeromobil Compass Fluid, made by
Socony-Vacuum Co. (Air Force Spec. AN-c-116).
There are three possible objections to the use of this
simple control system. First, a continued lessening of
the total weight on the balloon--with no change in volume--
must result in a constantly rising ceiling. For a 20-
foot balloon et 45,000 feet, this change is approximately
1000 feet with each kilogram of ballast dropped ( see Sec-
tion IV, E). Second, only a prefixed ballast flow is
permitted, and excessive loss of lift, as might come when
the gas is colled at sunset (when the balloon loses superheat:',
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