Editing Project Mogul (section)

==Roswell incident==
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{{see also|Skyhook balloon#Skyhook as UFO}}
[[File:Roswell Reports, Volume 1.ogv|thumb|thumbtime=181|start=137|end=228|The ''Roswell Report'' compiled by the United States Air Force attributed the 1947 Roswell debris to a Project Mogul balloon.]]

In 1947, a Project Mogul balloon ''NYU Flight 4'', launched June 4,{{R|"Frazier"}} crashed in the desert near [[Roswell, New Mexico]]. The subsequent military cover-up of the true nature of the balloon and burgeoning conspiracy theories from UFO enthusiasts led to a celebrated "UFO" incident.<ref name=olmsted184>{{cite book|author=Kathryn S. Olmsted|title=Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u7Sd5vyOOtEC&pg=PA184|date=11 March 2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-975395-6|pages=184}} Olmsted writes "When one of these balloons smashed into the sands of the New Mexico ranch, the military decided to hide the project's real purpose." The Official Air Force report (Weaver &amp; McAndrew 1995) had concluded (p. 9) "[...] the material recovered near Roswell was consistent with a balloon device and most likely from one of the MOGUL balloons that had not been previously recovered."</ref>

Unlike a weather balloon, the Project Mogul paraphernalia were massive and contained unusual types of materials, according to research conducted by ''[[The New York Times]]'': "...squadrons of big balloons ... It was like having an elephant in your backyard and hoping that no one would notice it. ... To the untrained eye, the reflectors looked extremely odd, a geometrical hash of lightweight sticks and sharp angles made of metal foil. .. photographs of it, taken in 1947 and published in newspapers, show bits and pieces of what are obviously collapsed balloons and radar reflectors."<ref>{{cite news |last=Broad |first=William J. |date=September 18, 1994 |title=Wreckage in the Desert Was Odd but Not Alien |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/18/us/wreckage-in-the-desert-was-odd-but-not-alien.html?pagewanted=all   |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|location=New York |access-date=February 6, 2017}}</ref>