By Brad Sparks, 26 April 2001
(UFO UpDates, Toronto,
Canada)
Source: NICAP.org
Quote from the mailing list post:
“Subject: Re: Ft. Monmouth
Revisited
I am puzzled that you (Manuel Borraz) recognize the
fact right here at the outset that there were _TWO_ balloons not one, launched
together at the same time from the same location (which you fail to mention),
but there was only _ONE_ UFO, yet you never mention the two Balloons again? In a few places you mention ‘balloons’ plural
vaguely but in several Places you misleadingly talk about ‘the balloon’ and ‘a
balloon.’ Is there any reason why you never mention two balloons again? I am impelled to point this out each time below
because this omission is fatal to your analysis.
How did you know there were two balloons
launched? Why didn’t you mention that
they were not just vaguely ‘launched in the area’ as if_ unrelated to each
other and in different locations, but launched at the exact same time at the
exact same location? Both balloons were
tracked by radar together until they exploded at 104,000 feet some 79
minutes later, at an average ascent rate of about 1,300 ft/min, which will be
very important for the analysis below.
Here are some strong arguments against the weather
balloon theory in the material at the NICAP website which you do not mention
had been made by the T-33 pilot Lt Wilbert S. Rogers literally on Day One of
the public reporting back in 1951. Fifty years later we should recognize that
this faulty theory has been challenged right from the outset by the key
witnesses.
‘This couldn’t have been a balloon,’ Rogers said, ‘because it was descending and
no balloon goes that fast.’
“Said Rogers:
“ ‘This couldn’t have been a balloon. It was describing
a descending arc as we got within 8,000 feet of it. And it was going at twice our
maximum speed. No balloon flies that fast. Why, we couldn’t have caught it in a
World’s record F-86 Saber jet.’ ”
(INS, Sept 12, 1951: http://www.nicap.org/fmS10p3.htm
)”
This UFO incident occurred over Sandy Hook, New Jersey,
on 10 September 1951.
http://www.nicap.org/reports/monmouthsparks2.htm
Aerial view of Sandy Hook, New Jersey (wikimedia.org)
(wikimedia.org photo)
(lib.utexas.edu image)
