Project Mogul

Name: UFO Transparency
Creator: UFO Transparency
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Top-secret 1947 U.S. high-altitude balloon program designed to detect Soviet atomic tests, the official explanation for the Roswell debris. Primary Project Mogul documents and the Air Force review that named it as the Roswell source.

Files

Findings

1994-2024

Years

Primary documents · 5

PDFRoswell Report: Fact vs Fiction, 1994U.S. Air Force Headquarters (Office of Air Force History)
PDFRoswell Report: Case Closed, 1997U.S. Air Force Headquarters
PDFAARO Historical Record Report, Volume I, 2024DoD / All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)
PDFAARO HRR Vol I, Wikimedia MirrorDoD / All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)
PDFAARO HRR Vol I, Pentagon Canonical PDFDoD / All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)

Findings · 5

1990sThe 1994 Air Force position document on Roswell: it was Project Mogul, the classified Soviet-nuclear-test detection balloon array.
1990sThe Air Force attributed Roswell's 'alien bodies' to anthropomorphic test dummies, events that post-dated 1947 by years.
2020sAARO's mandated 1945–2023 historical review: no verifiable evidence of any extraterrestrial recovery program, and the famous 1961 SNIE document is a fabrication.
2020sSame AARO Historical Record Vol I, mirrored at media.defense.gov, the canonical DOPSR-cleared release.
2020sAARO Historical Record Vol I, same conclusion as the v2 mirror, with ~30 interviews behind it: no extraterrestrial recovery program found, persistent claims traced to circular reporting since at least 2009.