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From: "Matthews" <matthews@zetnet.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 07:12:02 +0100
Fwd Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 20:05:40 -0400
Subject: Project Mogul a diversion?

Dear All,

I'm only marginally interested in Roswell but.....

.....in a conversation with a colleague the other day, a guy who
has done some real research into man-made flying saucers etc., he
told me that during his three year long investigation into these
he filed several FOIA requests related to important aspects of
the Roswell 'incident'.

One of these requests, and I don't understand why this has not
emerged before, indicated that the whole question of Project
Mogul was not actually discussed until June 1947. Under these
circumstances I find it difficult to believe that a Mogul balloon
was responsible for the events that took place some four weeks
later.....

The whole Roswell debate seems to be divided between those who
support the alien crash-retrieval fantasy and some hard-nosed
skeptics who think that UFO sightings are all explainable, or
'debunkable'.

I suggest that it is more likely that a prototype aerial device,
possibly related to recovered German advanced technology, strayed
from its' home within the White Sands Proving Ground and came
down in the manner described by some of the witnesses..... Given
that a great deal of information relating to German scientists
and Operation Paperclip remains buried (some information emerged
in the 1980s) then I think that we have another more sensible
solution here that has been killed off by opposing belief
systems.....

Has anybody ever actually filed FOIA requests on these balloons?

Tim Matthews, Lancashire UFO Society/British UFO Studies Centre.