BradSparks: 

But that's the whole point Jan -- the "Skyhook-like" sightings 4 HOURS

after Mantell crashed and 2 HOURS AFTER SUNSET at high altitude, made by

numerous competent Clinton County AFB tower personnel (and others elsewhere including

at the Mantell crash site) with binoculars who MADE DRAWINGS.  How do you

explain this????  Ice-cream cone shaped intense red light, just like red sunset

light.  Gotta be a Skyhook balloon right???  How can it be otherwise???  How

can you have such a "coincidence" otherwise???

But no such purported "Skyhook" sightings could have been made at 7 PM

Central time (and for 35 freakin minutes!!!) when sunset at the highest possible

altitude for a Skyhook was at just before 5 PM Central time. 

(Maximum altitude 100,000 feet to catch the last of the sun's rays even

though astronomer Seyfert said the balloon had been at only 25,000 feet.  As seen

from Clinton County AFB Tower till 7:00 PM CST, sunset for a 100,000 ft balloon

to the SW would have been at about 4:50 PM CST on Jan 7, 1948.)

This is a classic case of proving too much.  You can't cavalierly disregard

such Skyhook-like sightings because the "coincidence" is too great yet it's a

fatal poison pill because it's an absolute physical impossibility for the

Skyhook's 100-foot ice-cream cone-shaped gas envelope to have been lit up at 7 PM,

2 hours after sunset for the balloon.  The balloon explanation is fraught with

contradictions and sheer physics nonsense. 

I would challenge Skyhookers the same way Bruce Maccabee challenged the

Pelicanist debunkers of the Arnold case:  DRAW A MAP!!  Prove the alleged Skyhook

balloon's movements were consistent with the winds aloft at the right locations

and times by plotting the data on a MAP (and getting the winds aloft data). 

Remember, the CAUS article based on Moore's confabulations claimed there was

already SOME of this plotted for the purported Camp Ripley Skyhook, just not

for the entire path out purportedly over the Atlantic, so WHERE THE HELL IS the

tracking that supposedly DOES exist????

Conventional explanations must obey the laws of physics!

By the way in my haste to get my posting out last night I didn't have time to

look up the MOGUL flight date when the 650-footer passed within clear sight

of the Roswell base (my thanks to Dave Rudiak for alerting me).  I was going to

look up the flight date and suspected I had it wrong but was getting too

tired at too late at night (4 AM when I posted it).  It was on JUNE 5, not July 5,

1947, so it was a MONTH before the Roswell incident which strengthens my

point that the Roswell 509th certainly knew about MOGUL balloons long before the

UFO incident, contrary to Moore's facile lies and blatant falsification of maps

to try to prevent the connecting of the dots on this MOGUL balloon sighting

that surely must have occurred