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Project MOGUL was first conceived by Dr. Maurice Ewing of Columbia University, NY, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA. Dr. Ewing had conducted considerable research for the Navy during World War II, studying, among other things, the "sound channel" in the ocean.
He proved that explosions could be heard thousands of miles away with underwater microphones placed at a predetermined depth within the sound channel. He theorized that since sound waves generated by explosions could be carried by currents deep within the ocean, they might be similarly transmitted within a sound channel in the upper atmosphere. The military application of this theory was the long-range detection of sound waves generated by Soviet nuclear detonations and the acoustical signatures of ballistic missiles as they traversed the upper atmosphere. He presented his theory to General Carl Spaatz, Chief of Staff of the Army Air Forces, in the fall Of 1945. (6) The project was approved, and research was begun by the scientific research agency of the US Army Air Forces (USAAF), the Air Materiel Command (AMC), early in 1946 The project was assigned to HQ AMC, Engineering Division, Electronics Subdivision, which in turn assigned the project to AMC's Watson Laboratories, Engineering Division, Applied Propagation Subdivision, located in Red Bank, NJ.
6. Rprt, Maurice Ewing for General Carl Spaatz, "Long Range Sound Transmission in the Atmosphere," n.d.
Used to detect "Soviet nuclear detonations and the acoustical signatures of ballistic missiles as they traversed the upper atmosphere"...In 1945?
The first country to use missiles was Germany in 1944 and the absolute best they could achieve was hitting England a couple hundred miles away and accuracy was hit and miss. There were no ballistic missiles or any missiles at this time anywhere near capable of upper atmosphere travel. The other thing that has always bothered me about this explanation is attempting to propose it is true. One would have to believe that our government spent a real fortune on research and development, placed the most TOP SECRET, highest technology(At the time) on this device and then accept the fact that no one, and I mean no one was watching it! They didn't even bother to know it had crashed and didn't send anyone to look for it. Then Brazel stumbles across it and suddenly the military remembers they had a highest top secret, multi-million dollar high tech device they had forgotten about!? Holy cow! I would have respected them more had they stuck to their weather balloon story.
Keith Von Bollinger
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