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Charles B. Moore 1011 Cassity Street, N. W. P. O. Box 1333 Socorro, NM 87801-1333 505 835 0975 October 3, 1994 Henry J. Schuren One Debbie Drive Stanhope, NJ 07874 Dear Mr. Schuren: My response to your request for a printout of all the balloon launches by the Air Force [Army] from the town of Alamogordo during July, 1947 is that I have no records of any such flights. Further, I have no knowledge of any flights ever being launched by the Army Air Force from the town. Enclosed for you, however, is a section of the Summary of Constant-Level Balloon Flights carried out by members of the New York U…

Atmospheric Physics Department Institute of Mining and Technology Socorro, New Mexico 87503 September 25th, 1994 One Debbie Drive Stanhope, New Jersey 07874 Dear Mr. Moore: Would it be at all possible to obtain a print -out of all balloon launches [by the Air Force, Army] from the town of "Alamogordo, New Mexico" for the following time frame: July, 1947 I have been researching this on going incident now for some fourty plusyears, and I have to wonder why the Air Force is resolutely sticking with that balloon explanation! When one considers the caliber of witnesses that were interviewed over th…

Charles B. Moore 1011 Cassity Street, N. W. P. O. Box 1333 Socorro, NM 87801-1333 505 835 0975 October 4, 1994 John E. Peterson 933 Catalpa Road Arcadia, CA 91007 Dear John: It was a great pleasure to talk again with you, both to renew our earlier friendship and because of your role in procuring those unique radar targets. As you can see from my letter to Bob Winchell, I have been searching for you for more than a year. Both James McAndrew and I were delighted when you corroborated my recollections of the marked tape on the early, corner-reflecting radar targets. I relayed your recommendation …

September 29, 1994 A LIST OF SOME OF THE USAAF PERSONNEL ASSOCIATED WITH THE WEATHER EQUIPMENT TECHNICIAN'S SCHOOL AT SEA GIRT INN DURING 1944 AND 1945. Atlas, David Austin, George E. Brooks, Herbert B. Decker, Fred W. Duffy, Marcellus Fletcher, Joseph O. Holland, Joshua Z. Istvan, Edwin J. Kellogg, William K. Kellogg, William W. Moore, Charles B. Rhodes, Walter F. Rudd, Donald H. Peterson, John E. Schneider, Charles S. Spilhaus, Athelstan F. Swingle, Donald M. Tibbets, O. J. Trakowski, Albert C. Wanta, Raymond C. Winchell, Robert W. * Addresses and telephone numbers as listed by Digital Direc…

Charles B. Moore 1011 Cassity Street, N. W. P. O. Box 1333 Socorro, NM 87801-1333 505 835 0975 October 6, 1994 Richard S. Hassard Room 317 3014 East Indian School Road Phoenix, AZ 85016 Dear Dick; It was a pleasure to talk again to you after a lapse of more than forty years. We last communi- cated in August, 1952 when you were leaving NYU and I was at General Mills Aeronautical Re- search Laboratory. I still have your last letter and your resume. Enclosed, as I promised is a video cassette containing programs that have been made concerning the "Roswell Incident" for which we probably bear some…

Charles B. Moore 1011 Cassity Street, N. W. P. O. Box 1333 Socorro, NM 87801-1333 505 835 0975 November 3, 1994 Richard S. Hassard Room 317 3014 East Indian School Road Phoenix, AZ 85016 Dear Dick; Thanks for the loan of your pictures which I have copied and am returning herewith. Although they are not dated, it appears to me that the ones showing the balloon launch were taken at Clin- ton County Air Force Base in July, 1951. The front bumper of the truck carrying the inflation gas is marked "WPAFB" which, of course, suggests "Wright-Patterson AFB. The only NYU flights in Ohio of which I'm awa…

10/31/94 Dear Charlie, Parddéne my dis jointed writing. I suffered 3 small stroke earlies which louses up my signals a bit “I received the tape in good shape and plan to use it as asua 2 day program for our inmates ,if you don't object. We are dying of bordume or just pl abn dying. In cleaning cout the house ,I found more balloon pictures. In response to your requstcfor a -‘tbit of humor has resulted in the attached Episodes ‘*with my apologiues and lack ofaccurace Do you have a covy of the Japanese landing flap? showing the Japs penetrationXXHEMEXKXinto the USA? by balloon. tip AACA SHME. Tha…

NOTEWORTHY BALLON PROJECT OPERATIONS Episode #1 Tired¢rew went to Alma Gordo for a steak dinner. ChBrlie collapsed face down into his steak and french fries. : Episode #2 Balloon sealin tapes failed because of freezing moisture. Balloon landed in small Alma Gordo ranch. The owner was holding out for a reward while the baloon destruction timerorbntinued to trk away on the kitchen table as it armed the magnesyum sack with was highly flammable. Evisode #3 Near Roswell our tracking B17 was used as an emergency measure to buzz an oil rig crew to scare them off from capturing the downed mugger ballo…