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Project Genetrix coverage starts at 12:17 including a snafu that resulted in three of the balloon payloads landing in Soviet territory:
[video=youtube;DUGa1m6rz0o]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUGa1m6rz0o[/video]
Project Genetrix:
https://stratocat.com.ar/stratopedia/28.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Genetrix
Interesting info from the wikipedia article: "In 1955 a number of AN/DMQ-1 gondolas were launched from Lowry Air Force Base in Colorado as a test of the system. One was recovered years later (1962) in New Brunswick (Canada)."
That led me to these:
Mystery solved: 'Thing in the woods' revealed as CIA spy camera, 55 years later
25 Jul 2017
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/thing-in-the-woods-cia-spy-camera-1.4221705
The mystery that has plagued a New Brunswick family for more than five decades has been solved, with a satisfying Cold War espionage-flavoured denouement.
Declassified documents from the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency in the United States reveal the origins of the white 181-kilogram box found hanging from a rotting parachute in a tree near Moncton in 1962.
It turns out it was a high-altitude balloon-mounted spy camera developed in part by the CIA to secretly photograph Soviet Russia.
David McPherson Sr. poses with 'thing in the woods' equipment he discovered in the forest in 1962 moments before the Canadian military whisked it away. Fifty-five years later, it has been determined to have been an American spy camera developed in part by the CIA.
[video=youtube;oyivFAv_nwo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyivFAv_nwo[/video]
My previous post on the use of Project Genetrix film in the Soviet Luna probes:
Soviet space first made possible by captured US tech
https://www.rocketryforum.com/showt...space-first-made-possible-by-captured-US-tech
[video=youtube;DUGa1m6rz0o]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUGa1m6rz0o[/video]
Project Genetrix:
https://stratocat.com.ar/stratopedia/28.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Genetrix
Interesting info from the wikipedia article: "In 1955 a number of AN/DMQ-1 gondolas were launched from Lowry Air Force Base in Colorado as a test of the system. One was recovered years later (1962) in New Brunswick (Canada)."
That led me to these:
Mystery solved: 'Thing in the woods' revealed as CIA spy camera, 55 years later
25 Jul 2017
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/thing-in-the-woods-cia-spy-camera-1.4221705
The mystery that has plagued a New Brunswick family for more than five decades has been solved, with a satisfying Cold War espionage-flavoured denouement.
Declassified documents from the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency in the United States reveal the origins of the white 181-kilogram box found hanging from a rotting parachute in a tree near Moncton in 1962.
It turns out it was a high-altitude balloon-mounted spy camera developed in part by the CIA to secretly photograph Soviet Russia.
David McPherson Sr. poses with 'thing in the woods' equipment he discovered in the forest in 1962 moments before the Canadian military whisked it away. Fifty-five years later, it has been determined to have been an American spy camera developed in part by the CIA.
[video=youtube;oyivFAv_nwo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyivFAv_nwo[/video]
My previous post on the use of Project Genetrix film in the Soviet Luna probes:
Soviet space first made possible by captured US tech
https://www.rocketryforum.com/showt...space-first-made-possible-by-captured-US-tech
