Editing 1947 flying disc craze (section)

===Project Mogul and Skyhook===
{{see also|Project Mogul#Roswell incident}}
Skyhook balloons may have been the origin of some UFO observations.

[[File:The Roswell Report - front.jpg|right|thumb|150 px|In 1995, the US Government released a report concluding that the Roswell Incident stemmed from a Project MOGUL balloon.]]
In the 1990s, the US [[Government Accountability Office|General Accounting Office]] launched an inquiry and directed the Office of the [[United States Secretary of the Air Force]] to conduct an internal investigation about the 1947 UFO wave. The result was summarized in two reports. The first, released in 1994, concluded that the material recovered in 1947 was likely debris from [[Project Mogul]], a military surveillance program employing [[high-altitude balloon]]s (and classified portion of an unclassified [[New York University]] project by atmospheric researchers<ref name="Qr1ce">{{cite journal |last1=Frazier |first1=Kendrick |author-link1=Kendrick Frazier |title=The Roswell Incident at 70: Facts, Not Myths |journal=[[Skeptical Inquirer]] |date=2017 |volume=41 |issue=6 |pages=12–15 |url=https://www.csicop.org/si/show/the_roswell_incident_at_70_facts_not_myths |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720182643/https://www.csicop.org/si/show/the_roswell_incident_at_70_facts_not_myths |url-status=dead |archive-date=2018-07-20 |access-date=20 July 2018 |ref=none}}</ref>).

By the 1990s, a scholarly consensus emerged concluding that the military decided to conceal the true purpose of the crashed device—[[nuclear test]] monitoring—and instead inform the public that the crash was of a [[weather balloon]].<ref name="olmsted184">{{Harvnb|Olmsted|2009|page=184}}: Olmsted writes "When one of these balloons smashed into the sands of the New Mexico ranch, the military decided to hide the project's real purpose." The official Air Force report (Weaver & McAndrew 1995) had concluded (p. 9) "...the material recovered near Roswell was consistent with a balloon device and most likely from one of the MOGUL balloons that had not been previously recovered."</ref> The balloon had been launched from [[Alamogordo Army Air Field]] a month earlier. It carried a radar reflector and classified [[Project Mogul]] sensors for experimental monitoring of [[Soviet]] nuclear testing.<ref name="lVzhM">{{Harvnb|Frazier|2017}}.</ref>
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===Newspaper reports===
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===Photographs===
* July 4 - [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23246299/harrisburg-telegraph/ Frank Ryman photograph]
* July 8 - [https://saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articleimages/carrolltimesheraldalbertweaver7-9-47.jpg Albert Weaver photograph]<ref>https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16245710/the-journal-times/ {{Bare URL inline|date=July 2022}}</ref>
* July 9 - [[Rhodes UFO photographs]]

===Recovered objects===
* July 7 - [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23512763/standard-speaker/ Grafton, Wisconsin hoax], identified as a circular sawblade
* July 8
** [[Roswell incident|Roswell debris]], identified as balloon debris
** Victoria, BC<ref>https://www.newspapers.com/image/506005135 {{Bare URL inline|date=July 2022}}</ref>
** Oelwein, Iowa<ref name="auto104"/>
** [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18312007/austin-american-statesman/ Austin, Texas]<ref name="auto77">{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/359898241/|title=8 Jul 1947,1 - Austin American-Statesman at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
** [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18838873/the-times/ Shreveport, Louisiana hoax]<ref name="auto107">{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/210767436/|title=8 Jul 1947, Page 1 - The Times at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
* July 10
** North Hollywood disc, identified as intentional hoax<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/265266336/|title=10 Jul 1947, 3 - The Press Democrat at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
** [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18311899/detroit-free-press/ Detroit disc]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/97795926/|title=10 Jul 1947, Page 7 - Detroit Free Press at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
** Bakersfield
** Lima, Ohio, identified as balloon debris
* July 11 - [[Twin Falls saucer hoax|Twin Falls hoax]], identified as prank
* July 12 - [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18841058/the-gazette-and-daily/ York, Pennsylvania hoax]<ref>https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18841058/the-gazette-and-daily {{Bare URL inline|date=July 2022}}</ref>, identified as metal disc with radio equipment painted with "oriental" characters
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