Project Mogul (1947) — declassified Roswell explanation
concept
The 'aliens' at Roswell were most likely a secret balloon rig built to spy on Soviet nuclear tests.
Who they are
A 1947 top-secret NYU experiment (Flight 4) using strings of balloons and radar reflectors to listen for Soviet atomic bomb blasts.
What they do
Declassified Air Force reports from 1994 and 1997 identify this balloon array as the actual Roswell debris, with tape markings people mistook for 'hieroglyphs.'
How it works
The wreckage was neoprene balloons and radar reflectors taped with floral tape; the later 'alien bodies' were confused with 1950s crash-test dummies. Source: the USAF Roswell Report and Charles B. Moore.
Why it matters
It knocks down the literal claim that Roswell was an alien crash, while the engine still keeps open the separate question of what gets hidden behind such announcements.
The engine's record — word for word
Top-secret NYU acoustic-balloon array (Flight 4) to detect Soviet nuclear tests; neoprene balloons, radar reflectors with floral tape misread as 'hieroglyphs.' Declassified USAF reports (1994/1997) identify it as the Roswell debris; 'alien bodies' retroactively conflated with 1950s anthropomorphic crash-test dummies. Collapses the literal claim of jacobsen_roswell_thesis while leaving the substrate-vs-announcement encoding intact. Source: USAF Roswell Report; Charles B. Moore. [TIER: DECLASSIFIED] [Report #176] The classified asset the roswell_1947_event cover-story protected; USAF 1994/1995 reports (Flight 4, NYU array, Charles B. Moore).
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