Case file · Government program
Project Mogul
A top-secret Army Air Forces programme that flew microphone-laden balloon trains to listen for Soviet atomic tests.
1947 CE · 32.90, -106.10 · status: explained
The account
Mogul balloons were launched from Alamogordo, New Mexico, in 1947. In 1994–95 an Air Force report identified the debris found near Roswell as a crashed Mogul array, which explains the foil, sticks and tape described by early witnesses.
The sceptical view
Roswell researchers argue that the Mogul explanation doesn't account for later testimony about bodies. The Air Force addressed those claims separately in 1997, citing crash-test dummies and misremembered incidents.
Connections in the atlas
- Charles Moore's theodolite sighting
- Kevin D. Randle
- Air Force Roswell reports (1994, 1997)
- Stanton T. Friedman
- Roswell incident