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...furor was short-lived. At 8th Air Force headquarters the same night, Brigadier General Roger Ramey, after consultations with his weather forecaster, Warrant Officer Irving Newton, called in the local press and announced that the debris was the remnants not of a saucer but of a high-altitude weather balloon. The sticks and tinfoil, he explained, were from a reflector used to track the balloon by radar. The next day, under the headline GENERAL RAMEY EMPTIES ROSWELL SAUCER, the Daily Record reported his retraction and explanation. In the same edition, the paper quoted rancher Brazel, overwhelmed by the uproar...
Mogul, Moore explained, involved launching trains of balloons that carried acoustical equipment designed to monitor Soviet nuclear tests. So that the balloons could be tracked by radar, they were equipped with corner reflectors. Records showed that one such balloon train was launched on June 4 and was tracked to within 20 miles of the Foster ranch before it disappeared from the radar scopes in mid-June. Even more telling, Moore reported, the corner reflectors were put together with beams made of balsa wood and coated with "Elmer's-type" glue (to strengthen them). Also, he noted, the New York...
...holes in the testimony of such "witnesses" as Frank Kaufman and Jim Ragsdale. Pflock's conclusion: "It is all but certain that at least the great majority, if not all, of what was found at the debris field on the Foster ranch" was the wreckage of a Project Mogul balloon...
...building recorded a 1984 GMC truck driving by, and since Nichols owned a GMC truck of the same year, the government tried to use the video to corroborate its theory that he picked up McVeigh that night, after he parked his getaway car. But the defense easily popped this balloon, pointing out that dozens of people in the area might own such trucks. The FBI did not find McVeigh's fingerprints on the truck rental agreement, the ignition key or other pieces of evidence (although an expert testified that this was not unusual). This week prosecutors have the delicate task...
...crash that allegedly took place in 1947; the military, so the story goes, recovered some alien remains--and has kept them locked up ever since in a top-secret deep freeze. The Pentagon maintains that what it really recovered was the remains of a sophisticated, secret, surveillance balloon. But who would want to celebrate the 50th anniversary of that? So this summer, from July 1 through July 6, the town will be host to Roswell UFO Encounter '97, a celebration that will include the 1997 UFO Crash & Burn Extravaganza, a contest in which participants must build and "fly" their...