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NYU Balloon Project

1946-09-30what this date marks is not recorded

New York University's Research Division (College of Engineering) held the Air Materiel Command contract to develop the constant-level balloons; its group - engineer Charles B. Moore under research director Athelstan Spilhaus - built and launched the balloon trains Project Mogul flew. NOT related to author William L. Moore.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 3 September 2026 by reading this entity's record. The deciding phrase is this entity's own: "the constant-level". An editorial classification of which thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to.

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    Report of Air Force Research Regarding the "Roswell Incident"
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    NYU balloon group built and launched the constant-level balloon trains Mogul flew (AMC contract W28-099-ac-241)
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    These "service flights" were not logged nor fully accounted for in the published Technical Reports generated as a result of the contract between NYU and Watson Labs. ... Upon their arrival, Professor Moore and his team experimented with various configurations of neoprene balloons; development of balloon "trains" ...
    Report of Air Force Research Regarding the "Roswell Incident", 1994
    printed p. 26  ·  read off the page footer
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    Caveat THE CONTRACT NUMBER IS NOT IN THIS DOCUMENT. It records that a contract existed between NYU and Watson Labs and nothing more. W28-099-ac-241 came from elsewhere and is left in the relation unsourced rather than silently dropped - it is a claim this document does not cover.
  • ← Charles B. Moore
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    NYU Constant-Level Balloon Project engineer
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    the NYU constant altitude balloon Director of Research, Dr. Athelstan F. Spilhaus; the Project Engineer, Professor Charles B. Moore
    Report of Air Force Research Regarding the "Roswell Incident", 1994
    printed p. 25  ·  read off the page footer
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  • ← Athelstan Spilhaus
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    NYU Director of Research over the balloon project
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    the NYU constant altitude balloon Director of Research, Dr. Athelstan F. Spilhaus
    Report of Air Force Research Regarding the "Roswell Incident", 1994
    printed p. 25  ·  read off the page footer
    rendered and read by eye — the grade this project quotes from