America's most famous UFO case is thrust back into the spotlight again by former NASA scientists who say new Pentagon report is 'bogus'

• ex-NASA experts found 'grade school-type math errors' in balloon theory calcs
• Now even Air Force Col. who first proposed balloon theory says it was not '100%' 
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One of America's most famous UFO cases — if not, the most famous — has been thrust back into the spotlight, decades after the Air Force claimed to have solved it.

The Roswell incident of 1947 captured imaginations worldwide when the US Army Air Force issued a press release stating that it had recovered debris from a 'flying disc.'

But less than 24 hours later, military officials reversed course, announcing that the debris had only come from a crashed weather balloon, sparking America's fascination with UFOs and allegations of a government cover-up ever since. 

Last month, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, the Pentagon's departing UFO chief, teased his office's own conclusion: The Air Force's 1994 report was correct. Roswell's 'flying saucer' crash had just been debris from a top secret 'Project Mogul' spy balloon. 

But independent experts, including former NASA scientists, tell DailyMail.com that official documents, created by the very scientists who ran Project Mogul themselves, flatly contradict the government's theory.

Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, the Pentagon's departing UFO chief, previewed his office's upcoming UFO report this January, in a lengthy podcast interview.

His office, he said, plans to recycle a theory from an old Air Force report on the infamous Roswell UFO crash of 1947, claiming that this legendary 'flying disc' was simply a mistaken US spy balloon

But on page 715 of the Air Force's 881-page report on the Roswell crash, a transcribed journal entry by Project Mogul's Field Operations Director, geophysicist Dr. Albert Crary, states that the key scheduled balloon launch never took place - and thus couldn't be confused for a UFO

Running from 1947 until early 1949, Project Mogul was an effort to track from a distance the sound waves generated by Soviet nuclear weapons tests.

But Mogul scientists struggled to develop a system of high-altitude balloons and sensors that could remain level within the right 'sound channel' about 50,000 feet above sea level, fighting often against bad weather and aviation safety issues.

In fact, one longtime NASA aerospace engineer — who conducted atmospheric balloon experiments not unlike Mogul — told DailyMail.com that the critical Mogul balloon launch in question never took place.

The engineer pointed to a June 4th, 1947 journal entry written by Project Mogul's Field Operations Director, Dr. Albert P. Crary, which states: 'No balloon flights again on account of clouds. Flew regular sonobuoy up in cluster of balloons.'

'If he was just flying a rubber balloon cluster with a sonobuoy [a thin, three-foot-long, sonar device], it would go up and come down relatively quickly and never go too far,' this NASA engineer, who wished to remain anonymous, explained to DailyMail.com.

'In my opinion, that's what Crary meant when he wrote 'no balloon flights on account of clouds.'' 

'He meant no balloon flights that would take the train outside of military airspace.'

Dr. Crary's journal, which is corroborated by Mogul's official progress reports, indicate that there was no high-altitude balloon flight that fits both the Air Force investigation's timeline and was also capable of traveling the roughly 87 miles north to the Roswell UFO's crash site.

Dr. David Rudiak, a team member of the University of Texas at Arlington's 'Roswell UFO incident' archival project, told DailyMail.com he agrees.

Two former NASA scientists - including one who conducted atmospheric balloon experiments for the US space agency - have revealed to DailyMail.com how Air Force records contradict the Pentagon's Roswell theory. Above, NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building on Merritt Island, Florida

In the late 1990s, the US Air Force pointed to this aeroshell from a 1967 NASA Voyager-Mars space probe (above) as an explanation for the 1947 Roswell UFO crash, two decades prior

Dr. Rudiak scrutinized the Mogul balloon theory of the Roswell crash in partnership with Roswell skeptic and ex-NASA-Ames researcher Brad Sparks in the early 2000s.

Together they focused on the hypothetical flight path of the cancelled June 4th balloon flight, which had been calculated by the Air Force's star witness from Mogul. 

They uncovered 'numerous, grade-school type math errors' — in one instance '100 feet / 12 minutes = 350 feet-per-minute' — which allowed the alleged Mogul flight to start and stop at just the right altitude to ride the wind toward the Roswell crash site.

Dr. Kirkpatrick's appearance on the podcast, 'In the Room with Peter Bergen,' this January, was part of a media push that has seen the Pentagon UFO chief extend his feud with UFO whistleblower David Grusch into the pages of Scientific American and other media outlets

Nevertheless, in an interview with CNN analyst Peter Bergen this January, Dr. Kirkpatrick announced that his Pentagon UFO office would be doubling-down on the Air Force's official Project Mogul balloon theory.

From July 2022 to the end of last year, Dr. Kirkpatrick served as the Pentagon's first-ever director of its brand new All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), a congressionally mandated new group devoted to investigating military UFO cases.

'Kirkpatrick says his office dug deep into Roswell,' Bergen explained on his podcast.

'Kirkpatrick and his team at AARO concluded that crashed Mogul balloons, recovery operations to retrieve downed Air Force dummies, and glimpses of the aftermath of that real plane crash,' Bergen told listeners, 'likely combined into a single narrative.'

Dr. Kirkpatrick's take is a far cry from the testimony of Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) intelligence veteran Major Jesse Marcel who came forward in the late 1970s to say that the crash debris he witnessed in 1947 was 'not anything of this earth.'

Maj. Marcel, his colleague Master Sergeant Bill Rickett who also inspected the debris field, and scores more who lived near the New Mexico base have told overlapping tales of a crashed craft, recovered 'alien' bodies and intimidation of witnesses.   

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