The people who launched the Project Mogul balloons had many fascinating, high-quality UFO sightings of their own, including, ironically, Charles Moore, who is trying so hard to debunk Roswell in the present-day. But Moore wasn't alone. E.g., a document of an August 1947 sighting is enclosed, where the Mogul person described seeing a high-speed object while watching a balloon/radar target launch through binoculars. He said he had other "unexplainable" sightings as well while optically tracking their balloons. Also mentioned is a Mogul radar case of hovering objects at an altitude of 200 miles! Many other sightings by balloon personnel are detailed.
In 1997, former Project Mogul engineer Charles Moore claimed that winds for Mogul Flight #4 would have been "exactly" right and that he had "calculated" the trajectory of Flight #4, taking it "exactly" to the Foster Ranch crash site. Sounds impressive, until you find out what he really did to get his lost Mogul balloon up to the ranch, including hoaxing his own model by secretly changing numbers and calculating improperly. Any use of correct math and reasonable assumptions (instead of Moore's extreme ones) has the balloons missing the ranch by a very wide margin. Moore's trajectory is actually highly improbable. Includes a lengthy discussion and many graphs, tables, and illustrations. An alternate theory of the ultimate fate of Flight #4 is presented and how it might tie in to the Roswell case, but not in the way one might think. Flight #4 probably came down well northeast of the Foster Ranch and north of Roswell, and may have been used by the military to coach rancher Mack Brazel in what to say during a press conference they soon marched him to in Roswell.
Explains the basics of Moore's hoax in a mostly nonmathematical question and answer format. I originally wrote this for UFO Updates in Jan. 2004.
In their March/April 2003 issue, the debunking magazine Skeptical Inquirer printed an inept and highly dishonest defense of Moore's Mogul trajectory hoax, amounting to little more than propaganda. Unable to refute any of my math arguments, they simply ignored them, calling them "quibbles" and "shrill accusations," and then personally attacked me as "incompetent." Some "science" magazine. Click on link to see my rebuttal article sent to the editor plus my own editorial comments on how the Skeptical Inquirer published the article in flagrant violation of their own stated editorial policy. The editor, a close acquaintance of the author, never responded to my submitted article and obviously has no intention of ever publishing it. This is another violation of standard policy of real science journals that publish rebuttals by those whose work has been criticized.
A primer on how the Mogul-style radar targets were put together. This will eventually be part of a larger section on an analysis of the Fort Worth photos, and how they actually show the remains of a singular radar target and weather balloon, not a multi-balloon, multi-target Mogul. The broken up radar target in the photos is what Gen. Ramey tried to sell as a "flying disk", as did the military in a followup debunking campaign. Debunkers to this very day are still trying to claim that a radar target was somehow confused by Roswell personnel as a "flying disk." But Gen. Ramey wasn't confused at all in his teletype message, referring to the crash object as a "DISC", while the story they would put out for the public would be of "WEATHER BALLOONS" and radar targets. Furthermore Ramey's telegram said they were shipping something "IN THE 'DISC'". As you shall see from this primer, the radar targets were sheets of foil/paper (same stuff used to wrap candy bars and chewing gum) stretched over a balsa wood kite frame and had no "insides" with anything to ship.
Under construction. Gen. Ramey's "hexagon" description proves cover-up
