abstract:Project Mogul (sometimes referred to as Operation Mogul) was a top secret project by the US Army Air Forces involving microphones flown on high altitude balloons, whose primary purpose was long-distance detection of sound waves generated by Soviet atomic bomb tests. The project was carried out from 1947 until early 1949.
Yetthe bestevidencesuggests that itwas neither a flying saucernor a weather balloon, but insteadahigh-altitude, top-secretmilitaryballoon dubbed Project Mogul.
Chateau Laurier was a pet project of railway mogul Charles Melville Hays who insisted on the finest Italian marble, Indiana limestone and European crystal.
Then we moved into the screening room, where he only reinforced the impression by giving his attractive Soho House audience, sprawled out in typical movie-mogul loungers, a bit of the project's history.