A tactical HUD showing a balloon train, acoustic wave frequencies, and balsa wood debris scans.
THINK ABOUTIT SUMMARY:
Project Mogul: The Official Roswell Cover Story
Project/Group Name: Project Mogul
Mission: To detect low-frequency sound waves in the upper atmosphere generated by Soviet atomic bomb tests using long-range, high-altitude balloons equipped with acoustic sensors.
Date Started: 1947. Ended: 1949.
Who or Whom Started It: Dr. James Peoples (NYU) and the U.S. Army Air Forces.
Part of what Government Agency: U.S. Army Air Forces (Watson Laboratories).
Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico; Alamogordo, New Mexico; Clinton County Air Force Base, Ohio.
Special Features/Characteristics:
- Acoustic Constant: Utilized the “SOFAR” channel in the atmosphere to transmit sound over thousands of miles.
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Balloon Trains: Massive arrays of neoprene and polyethylene balloons, sometimes stretching over 600 feet in length.
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Materials: Radar targets made of foil, parchment, and balsa wood—some featuring floral-patterned tape (later cited to explain “alien hieroglyphs”).
Summary/Description: Project Mogul was a classified project during the early Cold War designed to monitor Soviet nuclear activity. In 1994, the U.S. Air Force officially identified the Roswell crash of July 1947 as a “Mogul balloon train” (specifically Flight 4). While this provided a technical explanation for the unusual debris found on the Foster ranch, skeptics point out that Project Mogul’s own internal records only document a crash in Scandinavia, not the New Mexico desert.
Related to: The Roswell Incident, Project Skyhook, and Project Blue Book.
Source: The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert (USAF, 1994); Dr. Maurice Ewing’s research papers.
Other Details: The 1994 report claimed the “alien bodies” reported by witnesses were actually anthropomorphic crash-test dummies, though those tests did not begin until several years after 1947, leading to further accusations of a “cover-up within a cover-up.”
“The official records of the Mogul project, however, only mention a balloon crashing in… Scandinavia.”
