>    Hi.
 >    Of course, we all know the arguments about UFOs and weather
 > balloons, don't we?
 >    Carl Sagan once suggested that if we really want to know
 > whether high-altitude weather balloons can be mistaken for strange
 > flying vehicles (e.g. the alleged Mogul balloon that allegedly
 > caused the alleged Roswell incident), an experiment is in order.
 >    His suggestion: Assemble several hundred high-altitude weather
 > balloons. Fit each with some sort of tracking device, and release
 > them over the U.S. Keep a record of where each balloon goes, wait
 > a few months, and then start studying
 > recent reports of UFO sightings in those areas. By comparing these
 > reports of what you know are weather balloons to other UFO
 > sightings, you can see if any of them might be weather balloons
 > too.
Another view on the MOGUL project and its secrecy... If a technique
for making the best bronze sword in the world is outmoded by the
innovation of stainless steel, why keep the process of making the
bronze sword still a secret? This is what the government has done
with the Mogul balloons. The U-2, SR-71 and all the spy satellites
certainly make the Mogul project so outmoded, secrecy is no longer
required.  ...Yet, for years after the advent of the more modern
spy techniques, the Mogul project is still kept a secret. ...Why?
The government's "black budget" project managers are so paranoid
about their financing maybe being cut, they add fuel to the
conspiracy phenomenon. It's the nature of the beast for the public
to yell "conspiracy," and the government is its own worst enemy.
Regards,
Jack
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