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Originally posted by skyeagle409
Originally posted by SuicideVirus
It's interesting that one of the commentators mentioned the Nazi "crystal ball" radar tracking devices, which resemble "foo fighters" in the description. It's too bad most of the available German documentation indicates that they didn't know what the foo fighters were, either. Otherwise, it would be interesting to speculate that along with German rockets, the Army was secretly testing captured or reproduced German foo fighter radar tracking discs/spheres, also.
The Germans had nothing to do with the foo fighters since they thought the foo fighters were ours, and the foo fighters were seen over the Pacific as well.
Originally posted by yeti101
Are you being serious? did the tags say " part of an experiment to listen for russian nukes"
NYU balloon teams job was to try and get balloons to fly at constant altitude. Thats it. Most of balloon trains they launched were considered expendable in fact they flew 110 "research" flights and these were published in unclassified documents at the time.
The "service" flights were the secret ones and not published.
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Majority of the NYU balloons only had meteorological equipment,transmitter for sending the data & radar targets. Purely for balloon flight research.
Originally posted by SuicideVirus
That's what I said. Still, not everybody is privy to what everybody else is doing. If the Germans did happen to develop flying magnetic gizmos -- basically kites of some kind designed to zip into the magnetic field of a plane to help track it -- maybe it was done in a different little secret facility off in some other part of the woods than the rocket stuff. And who said that the Germans didn't know anything about the foo fighters?
I was over at the White Sands website just now. Interesting how very few rocket launches are recorded for June, 1947. Basically just a small WAC Corporal on the 15th. Of course, there's stuff that goes on the books, and there's stuff that doesn't.
Originally posted by SuicideVirus
And who said that the Germans didn't know anything about the foo fighters?
Originally posted by yeti101
The "service" flights were the secret ones and not published.
Originally posted by lost_shaman
Originally posted by SuicideVirus
And who said that the Germans didn't know anything about the foo fighters?
After the War Germans were interogated and Foo Fighters were on the list of things the Allies wanted to know about, that is how we know the Germans were also perplexed by the Foo Fighters.
Originally posted by SuicideVirus
Again, says WHO? Where did that information you're repeating come from? Someone with an agenda, perhaps?
FOO FIGHTERS is the name given to the general body of spherical, circular, disc-like, or wedged shaped "bogies," sometimes seeming to glow, shine, or reflect a high degree of illumination seen mostly by World War II pilots or flight crews.
They usually paralleled or followed aircraft and were seen by aviators on all sides of the action, being reported by American, British, German and Japanese crews. No Foo Fighter was known or reported to have made or attempted any sort of contact, interaction or attack.
They were known, however, for their high rate of speed and agility, being much faster than any known aircraft at the time as well as being extremely manuverable, often exhibiting highly unconventional abilities such as instantaneous acceleration and deacceleration, rapid climbing and descent, and hovering in place.
sped2work.tripod.com...
www.ufocasebook.com...
Even with the destruction of some of the documentation of the event (or non-event) itself, there would be no way to destroy all of the hundreds or thousands of secondary documents generated by such a necessarily major operation. All of the paperwork surrounding the "hole" would suggest what might be in it. It's curious to note how little of the entire base was involved in such a supposedly momentous happening.
And it's not like all of the Roswell paperwork and communications from that time were destroyed. There's still a lot of it around. Unfortunately, what still exists still offers no indication of anything happening other than a minor communications snafu that got out of hand.
Not even important enough for anyone to either get promoted or demoted for.
And after a week or so, the base was back to dull, ordinary business as usual. Again, hardly what you'd expect if something really extraordinary happened.
But this is getting away from the Ramey Memo, which I'm still playing with, and still coming up with not much in the way of useful evidence.
Originally posted by debrisfield
Vandenberg and Ramey would have insisted on it. Heads of some senior officers at Roswell would have rolled. But in reality, there was no investigation, and none of the senior officers careers suffered. Quite the contrary.