ROSWELL: PLAYING FAST AND LOOSE WITH FACTS - STILL

 I was researching and ran across the History Channel page on Roswell and found in bold red print this nugget:

"Did you know? The Project Mogul team invented a number of high-tech materials for its balloons and other equipment, including ultra-lightweight and ultra-strong metals, fiber-optic cables and fireproof fabrics. This is part of the reason why some people who saw the debris thought it came from outer space: It didn’t look or behave like anything they’d ever seen. Many of these materials are still in use today." Source: Roswell - New Mexico, Alien & UFOs - HISTORY

I found this fascinating because if you explore the original reports, the Air Force interviews for their first exposé on Roswell the principal players admit there was nothing out of the ordinary with anything used in those early Mogul flights. Charles Moore states they did not even change from the common neoprene balloon to the plasticized version until after the end of June 1947! Since most sites float the Flight #4 as the Roswell debris, the debris would have been parts of a neoprene balloon. Those flights used primarily linen strings and cords as well. The fireproofing, according to Moore, was applying a layer of Elmer's glue-like substance to various parts.

Read all about Mogul here pt05a.pdf (smu.edu)

Charles E Moore shown here with reflector from a weather balloon such those used in Mogul

"Based on the above, it appeared likely that the debris found by the rancher and was subsequently identified as a ”flying disc” by personnel from Roswell AAF was, with a great degree of certainty, MOGUL flight no. 4, launched on June 4, 1947. " ---Roswell: Fact vs Fiction

"June 4 Wed. Out to Tularosa Range and fired charges between 00 and 06 this am. No balloon flights again on account of clouds. Flew regular SO"O buoy up in cluster of balloons and had good luck on receiver on ground but poor on plane. Out tith Thompson pm. Shot charges from 1800 to 2400.

 June 5 Thurs. Up at 4 to shoot 2 charges for balloon flight. Whole assembly of constantaltitude balloons set up at 0500. Fired charges at 0537 and 0552, the" ~00" buzzed by plane 1947 11 to return. Receiver at plane did not work at all. Ground receiver worked for a short time but did not receive explosions. B-17 and most of personnel out to Roswell - recovered equipment some 25 mi east of Roswell. [my emphasis] Out at 10 this morning, sot TKI and went out to range. " ---NYU/Mogul Balloon, Crary Diary, 1947 

So, from these sources it is shown that flight #4 lifted June 4 (according to the Air Force report and Moore's comments), but is listed as having an unknown landing site in one source and in Crary's diary it is clearly stated no lifts were made due to cloud coverage.

One thing the work of Project Blue Book discovered was that most people - read leaders, administrators, government officials, reporters - and so they read the summary, they consume the pre-digested information and accept as fact all the summary presents under a guise of logical, objective, rational, and unbiased information. 

When the Condon Committee prepared their reports in the late 1960's, head of the project Condon was already preparing his summary based on the biases he held or had been told to hold. Much of his summary was in opposition to the conclusions of his committee members. Most people read just the summary and accepted those conclusions as facts. Just the way the reports in the Blue Book Project had often made conclusions that witnesses statements contradicted, the Condon report and so many others, saw this flaw in human beings and utilized it to push forward an agenda.