Case · explicacion_oficial
Project Mogul
Top-secret USAAF program (1947–49) of balloon trains to detect Soviet nuclear tests. Official explanation of the Roswell debris.
What is claimedThe USAF ('Fact vs. Fiction', 1994/95) identifies the debris as NYU Flight #4: foil, balsa and the 'flowered tape' Brazel saw match its radar reflectors.
Skeptical viewProponents object that Flight #4 is not in NYU's formal records (only in Crary's diary, which noted 'no flights on account of clouds'): a very strong inference, not a flight proven on paper.
Sources — here nothing is invented: Wikipedia — Project Mogul · USAF — The Roswell Report (1994) · Printy — astronomyufo