In the 1990's, finishing a grad program and beginning work in my professional field, I began studying Roswell (Or the Roswell Incident). I set up a simple webpage to explore questions and research. I contacted numerous researchers, authors, and even hunted down one witness some had a hard time finding and he kindly answered my questions. Questions I had; gaps and contradictions, poor arguments, and evidence that all came from the same source (i.e. the government). I voiced my questions, gripped about the "run around" and connected with some people who appeared "like minded."
It may have been pure coincidence that this website was seriously hacked some months into the study, as was an email I used. I was using the page when it went black and fast scrolling data raced up the page and then pop! It was gone. Lost. Not able to retrieve. You name it that was the message sent to me. Oddly, I could access other pages I had created for other purposes or audiences. I am not claiming this was done on purpose - just throwing it out there. When I questioned the logic and claims of one "out there" group, I was verbally harassed via emails from a Reptilian-aliens-in-the-woodwork (and government) proponent. That is a whole other story! They threatened and insulted. My in box was filled to overflowing with their nonsense. Just let it be said, it was an interesting time.
So, when I began research into the SOONER SAUCERS book (pub.2020) and subsequent work on my own Kansas experiences as well as those of others in that state, revisiting Roswell was not high on the list. It was the landmark, the signpost, the tree in the road; Events had to be measured and compared in Pre-Roswell and Post-Roswell terms. Layers of assumptions generated in the post-Roswell world - and false assumptions - still colored how the topic was viewed later 20th and early 21 centuries.
One of the areas just coming to light in those dates of the personal website adventure was the news that a top-secret experimental project, MOGUL, was behind the Roswell Incident. I recall clearly seeing numerous online articles, postings, and etc. dealing with the history of the tests for the project. These were drawn from the records and diary of Albert Crary. The first two tests were back "east" and then project moved to the southwest, there about two were lost or never released, and the others had data on release and recovery locations. Recently, trying to locate that chart and list online I discovered that the majority of sites all accepted the Air Force report of 1996 where the Roswell "Disc" was alleged to be Flight Test #4. There was often little evidence beyond that Air Force report (again the source of the solution is the source of the problem - a little of the Fox guarding the henhouse contradiction).
Where? That chart or listing with its data, to me, would be a great piece of evidence to undergird the Air Force claim. So, where is it? Instead, the "Wikipedia" article provides evidence only via long quotes from the works of men some might truthfully claim were a bit prejudiced in their views and work regarding Roswell and unidentified flying or aerial objects. That, to me, does not seem true "evidence." So question: where did that informative chart and list of those project test flight go? The way the Internet has developed the primary focus is presumed to be that the Internet user will be pecking keys with credit card at the ready. Assumptions of research and in-depth knowledge gathering are not high on the radar of several Internet gateways.
Buried within the massive (900+ pages) of the government produced Roswell: Fact vs Fiction in the New Mexico Desert was that chart and some of that date. Not easy to find, access, or use. After weeding through pages of leading question interviews with pro-Mogul individuals there were finally some facts. In the early pages and in a summary was the firm statement that Charles Moore had identified Flight # 4 as the Project Mogul flight responsible for the "Roswell Incident. "See page 27 of the Fact vs Fiction work. This is the repeated statement found on so many websites and in articles.
Yet, on page 15 of the interview with Moore has him reading from a written source, "June 4the, "out to Tularosa Range and fired charges between 0-0 and o-6" something. "No balloon flight again on account of clouds. "..."as to that flight made by Mirs and Hackman, earlier, we have no record of it in the NYU summary."
SUMMARY OF FLIGHTS 1-6
Flight no. Date Launch Site Configuration Landing Site
3 5/29/47 Alamogordo, NM Same as flight no. 2* Unknown
4 6/4/47 Alamogordo, NM Same as flight no. 2* Unknown
* Depictions of flight nos. 3 and 4 are not provided in the NYU reports. According to NYU Progress Report
No. 6, Section 11, p. 5, the equipment to be used for the Alamogordo field trip in June was consistent with the depiction of flight no. .2. This information also concurred with Crary's partial description of flight no. 4 in his diary.
So, although we have Charles E. Moore in 1994 stating the Roswell Incident was caused by Flight # 4, we have conflicting data from Albert Crary which Moore himself appears to agree to in the interview! A balloon that did not go aloft - almost all agree now according to the websites and articles - was responsible for the Roswell Incident.
MOGUL information and the Crary Diary at pt05a.pdf (smu.edu) . This section indicates there was no flight for June 4, 1947, proving the text read aloud in the interview with Moore was from Albert Crary's diary.
Roswell Report (AF 1994) at The Roswell Report (defense.gov)
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