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- From: mcgrew@dropout.rutgers.edu (Charles Mcgrew)
- Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
- Subject: Re: Roswell Testimony
- Message-ID: <Jan.25.23.59.57.1993.6393@dropout.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 04:59:58 GMT
- References: <C14yvp.E0A@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1993Jan20.100852.10600@ntb.ch>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- milsom@ntb.ch (Paul Milsom) writes:
- [generally accurate description of radar-targeting device]
-
- ... the Rawin target device (the one that the Roswell whateveritwas
- is claimed to be) is towed by neoprene rubber balloon(s), under which
- the targeting device is attached by string. (Yes, string.) At the
- edges of the board frames for each reflector was stapled a slip of
- typed paper reading "Property of Air Materiel Command Watson
- Laboratories, Army Air Field (and then local launch addres)."
-
- The argument against anything "strange" seems to be that
- 1) The development of radar itself was a secret undertaking.
-
- ... certainly not. It took a little digging, but I found a reference
- to radar (calling it "radiolocation of aircraft", which is what radar is;
- the passage also includes describing its use in vectoring interceptors
- to attacking air units) in "The Makers of Modern Strategy", by Edward
- Mead Earle -- in 1943 (Princeton University Press, pg. 494.) ... 4
- years before Roswell. (Radar, of course, predates WWII, but I wanted
- to be sure there was an unclassified reference to it before 1947.)
-
- 2) The shape of the reflector (and being able to use something
- like this at all in a test) was secret.
-
- ... since the reflector is a series of triangles, so as to be the
- best reflector from any angle, I can't imagine it would be secret.
- (And, see below about the Ohio incident.)
-
- 3) The special metal alloy used was secret. It was very thin,
- very light, and very strong. It was, of course, extremely
- important that samples of the metal didn't get into enemy
- hands. (Don't ask me what it was!)
-
- ... according to "Roswell, A Historical Perspective", the reflector
- was made of aluminum foil. (That would work, of course, suitably
- thin, its plenty light.)
-
- The problem with all this is that on July 1, 1947 (several days
- before the Roswell brouhaha), Mr. Sherman Campbell of Circleville,
- Ohio, had found (according to the Circleville Herald) a balloon "about
- 50 inches high, 48 inches wide, and weighed about 2 pounds. Silver
- foil was stretched over a wooden frame... was a star-shaped object ...
- had 6 points." Sound familiar? The wreckage, rather than being
- swooped off by the USAAF to, well, anywhere, was allowed to sit in the
- offices of the Circleville Herald for several days, and then returned
- to the Campbell family as a souvenir.
-
- So why all the brouhaha in New Mexico?
-
- Charles
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