Also why did Halt write the memorandum? He was ordered to come up with something once it became public - again, a cover story. His chain of command was USAFE not MoD. The US DoD would not have sought documents from MoD to answer a US FoI request unless they wanted to create and perpetuate a cover story. My personal view is that the memo is a diverson. Ditto the tape and probably also the witness statements.
I realise admin has found JB's contribution to be helpful but personally, I don't think JB has added anything of any real value.
puddlepirate wrote:Hi Observer
Forgot to add...if you look at the phot you will see the vehicle is multi-wheeled with big off road tyres. It looks like a 12 wheeler. That arrangement would spread the weight over quite a large surface area. It weighed 80,000lbs so I'd guess each wheel had an approximate load of around two tons. Not sure of the contact area of each tyre but probably something like a couple of square feet. That would give a load of around one ton per square foot. On hard ground, as was the case in December, it probably wouldn't leave many tyre marks. After all a reasonable sized family saloon weighs in at about a ton so each wheel supports around 1/4 of a ton on a contact area about the size of the palm of your hand - about 1/10th of a square foot. Which, if my dodgy maths is correct, is actually a greater load per tyre contact area than that of the launcher.....
Tamper proof, eh? While we're on the subject...
Also I do agree with the UFO cover to hide somthing else that was going on and it might have had somthing to do with Russia.
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