Project Mogul is NOT the Cause of the Roswell Incident

After reading Pro's R2, and reviewing the source material he provided, I still maintain the Con position stating PM is probably responsible for the Roswell incident. I extrapolated these contentions from the material Pro provided. This summary is for my use; Pro is under no obligation to accept them. I fit all points, which I will address, into these points. I came up with two: 1.PM was a known project whose purpose was top secret but its balloons were not; therefore, the military response to the Roswell crash is inconsistent with the reported breech, recovery, and cover up that ensued following the July 1947 incident. 2.The items recovered at the crash site are not consistent with the products PM was designing; therefore, the debris could not have been a PM balloon. Rebutting Pro's Position. 1."The only thing secret about Project Mogul was the purpose (described by Con). The balloon itself was of little importance." Pro supports this point by referencing material from a pro-UFO source. The source claims that weather balloons were abundant in this area; ranchers were aware of them and considered the balloons to be unimportant. The source further states that ranchers would not have descended on the area just to see another weather balloon. I agree. The crash we are referencing was not a weather balloon and it was different from the other balloons that fell in abundance. Was it a mogul balloon? This source claims mogul balloons had reward notices for return and the wreckage found had no such notices. Pro continues by providing a newspaper picture of balloons in Princeton, NJ and a source indicating balloon launches were reported regularly. I agree the crash does not appear to be debris from balloons in Princeton, NJ, weather balloons, or many of the balloons produced from the NY "balloon group". As explained in my previous source, the crash was not the product of any of these items. All those references were unnecessary as the item found was not your ordinary weather balloon, and we should not be surprised that people did not know what produced the debris. The balloon in question is described by Muller, "The balloon that was found on the Foster Ranch consisted of as many as 23 350-gram balloons spaced at 20 foot intervals, several radar targets (3 to 5), plastic ballast tubes, parchment parachutes, a black "cutoff" box containing portions of a weather instrument, and a sonabuoy (Atch 3). After striking the ground, the radar reflectors, constructed of very light materials for minimum weight, would tear and break apart, spreading out over a large area when pulled across the ground by balloons that still possessed some buoyancy." Typical weather balloons consist of 1 350-gram balloon, a radiosonde housed in a cardboard box, and sometimes, a single corner reflector. (Pro showed you pictures of them) so yes, I see why uniformed civilians and military personnel would consider this debris field more than a run of the mill weather balloon. The fact launches were preceded by notices, public or to Airman, does little to support this was not a mogul balloon, as PM had no obligation to tell what type of balloon they were launching, and as clearly indicated by the debris and the nature of this particular balloon, it was not a typical PM balloon, but was a PM balloon, nonetheless. The next area, prior to dealing with the actual crash materials, is the military response. Most of the items in the crash were unclassified, I agree. However, the combination of the weather balloon materials with the AN/CRT-1 was the big issue. As Mueller stated, "Although the Sonabuoy was not itself classified, its association with a balloon would have exposed a specific military purpose, an obvious violation of project classification guidelines." Disseminating all the parts and declaring them mundane does not account for the breech which occurs when all the materials are found together. In addition, the crash occurred near Roswell AAF, which had the only unit, worldwide, capable of delivering nuclear weapons. Reports of a "flying disc" were synonymous with a craft of unknown (possibly soviet) origin, not a space ship (Mueller). When such a report circulated, a heavy military response ensued to identify the object. I see nothing out of the ordinary here. My opponent did not source the military attempts to silence people, and some are over the top. He can present the most reliable in the next round should he choose to do so. 2.Next, my opponent cites Robert Galganski to show the crash could not have been caused by the above mentioned PM project. I read Galganski's materials and find he is basing much of his analysis on the accuracy of conflicting eye witness testimony. Dr. Galganski is an engineer and a UFO buff. His work has been questioned considerably and his analysis, provided by my opponent's source, is not indicative of professional work. http://www.csicop.org... . Galganski assumes too much in his work, making his analysis unreliable. I welcome voters to consider the veracity of this source and consider that most of his work in this area has been refuted. Due to Dr. Galganski's use of unreliable accounts to substantiate a questionable conclusion, I do not consider his materials of much value. Despite the materials presented by Pro, PM is the best explanation for the Roswell incident.