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From: KRandle993@aol.com [Kevin Randle]
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 13:26:28 -0400 (EDT)
Fwd Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 19:57:35 -0400
Subject: Re: Mogul Balloons

>Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 03:47:32 -0300
>To: Updates@globalserve.net
>From: Ricardo Varela Correa <ricardo@das.inpe.br>
>Subject: Mogul Balloons


 >I am following the Mogul project hyphotesis for the Roswell crash in this
 >forum, so i would like to add some more information that caN contribute to
 >this discussion. Since I am a balloon specialist, and refering to this
 >hypothesis I would like to add a few things.

 >1 - The payload of the Mogul project would carry special  films to measure
 >possible Soviet nucs detonation. (An energetic particle would leave a trace
 >on it). THe payloads of this project would weight around 300Kg and at that
 >time the US Navy did not use a parachute, and if the balloon burst on the
 >way down, it would make a considerable mess in the ground.

The fact that the Navy might or might not have had something is
irrelevant because the Navy was not involved in Mogul. The payload
of the Mogul flights was 10 or 11 Kg. There is no way for it to carry
something as heavy as 300 Kg.

 [snip]

 >3 - THe balloons could explode(although is a very small possibility, since
 >as it ascend, looses all the gas), as the Mogul project used hidrogen - now
 >NSBF(National Scientific Balloon Facility) uses helium.

Everyone associated with Mogul said they used Helium and not Hydrogen.
Helium does not explode.

 >4 - The balloon film gets brittle when it passes the tropopause and if the
 >place were it lands is windy, it will shatter small pieces of film all
 >around the area.

But it will still be light weight rubberized material which will cut, burn
and bend.

 >5 - The MOgul project carried heavy special emulssion films that were
 >separated by lead sheets. They were heavy - 200 - 500 Kg. If the descent
 >speed is high, it could have made the gouge described by Mr Brazel.(the
 >same idea were used to detect in 24 may 1947, and prove the existence of
 >the meson-pi, in Bolivia)

While this might be true of some flights, the June 4 flight did not.

KRandle