Unidentified flying objects -- Sightings and encounters -- New Mexico -- Roswell
[88] Flight Summary, DISCOVERER Balloon Flights, March 31, 1960-April
22, 1960, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell, AFB, AL, Reel#
31811, frame 569.
[89] ibid.
[90] ibid.
[91] Kevin C. Ruffner, ed., _Corona: America’s First Satellite Program_
(Washington, D.C.: Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central
Intelligence Agency, 1995), 21–22.
[92] ibid.
[93] ibid.
[94] Martin Marietta Corporation, “Viking '75, Balloon Launched
Decelerator Test Program Post Flight Report, BLDT Vehicle AV-3,” TR
3720293, 1972, IV-I and Edward J. Kirschner, _Aerospace Balloons; From
Montgolfiere to Space_ (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: Aero Publishers, 1985),
64–66.
[95] Martin Marietta Corporation, “Viking '75, Balloon Launched
Decelerator Test Program Post Flight Report, BLDT Vehicle AV-3,” TR
3720293, 1972, IV-I.
[96] Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, _The Truth About the UFO
Crash at Roswell_ (New York: Avon Books, 1994), photograph section.
[97] Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, “Report on Research,
for the Period July 1965-June 1967”, AFCRL TR-68-0039, November 1967,
150–151.
[98] Gildenberg.
[99] Database of high altitude balloon operations on file at SAF/AAZD
compiled from the following sources: Research Division, College of
Engineering, New York University, _Technical Report No. 93.02, Constant
Level Balloons_, Section 3, _Summary of Flights_, July 15, 1949;
“Flight Summary Non-Extensible Balloon Operations 6580th Test Squadron
(Special), June 1950 to October 1954,” National Archives and Records
Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.,
Accession No. 342-62A-181, box 14/18; Flight Records of Bernard D.
Gildenberg, Meteorologist, Holloman AFB Balloon Branch, October 12,
1956-March 14, 1961; “Summary of Balloon Flights Launched from Holloman
AFB, N.M., 1962 thru 1987”, Space and Missile Command, Test and
Evaluation Unit (SMC/TE, OL-AC) files, Holloman AFB, N.M. Additional
flight data on file (microfilm), U.S. Air Force Phillips Laboratory,
Geophysics Directorate, Hanscom AFB, Mass.
[100] Bernard D. Gildenberg, _Meteorological Aspects of Constant-Level
Balloon Operations in the Southwestern United States_, AFCRL-66-706
(L.G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, MA: Air Force Cambridge Research
Laboratories, October 1966), and Bernard D. Gildenberg, _General
Philosophy and Techniques of Balloon Control_, in Lewis A. Grass, ed.,
_Proceedings, Sixth AFCRL Scientific Balloon Symposium_, AFCRL-70-0543,
(L.G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Mass.: Air Force Cambridge Research
Laboratories, October 1970).
[101] Blankenship.
[102] ibid.
[103] ibid.
[104] ibid.
[105] ibid.
[106] Joseph Longshore, Balloon Branch Supervisor, telephone interview
with Capt. James McAndrew, August 16, 1995.
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