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From: Donald  Ledger <dledger@ns.sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 15:31:58 +0100
Fwd Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 08:08:04 -0400
Subject: Re: P-1947: US Spy Balloons Launched From UK In 50s


>Date:  Wed, 19 Aug 1998 02:43:13 +1000
>From: John Stepkowski <legion@MIRA.NET>
>Subject: "U.S. Spy Balloons Launched From U.K. - 1950s"
>To: PROJECT-1947@LISTSERV.AOL.COM

>Source: The Daily Telegraph (UK) (8-10-98)

>'US Spying Balloons Were Based In Britain - Public Records'
>by Ben Fenton

>Years before the first satellites were launched, the United
>States Air Force used Britain as a base for vast camera-carrying
>balloons designed to spy on Russia, top secret files recently
>released at the Public Record Office reveal.

>The Americans planned to release 3,500 balloons between 1955 and
>1956 which would float at heights of up to 60,000 ft. above the
>Soviet Union with sophisticated cameras suspended in a 'gondola'
>below them.

>They had to release the balloons from bases in Europe and then
>pick them up when they had floated all the way to the Pacific,
>either plucking them from the air with specially adapted planes
>or sweeping them up from the sea.

<snip>

Hello John,

A very interesting posting. No doubt many UFO reports in the UK
and western Europe could be attributed to these launchings.
Other than the testing of these baloons in North America it's
doubtful that many such UFO reports would have been generated in
Canada and the United States. Unless of course the Soviet Union
was doing the same thing and were more successful at it:-) To my
knowledge we never caught them at it.

Don