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In July 1995 the U.S. General Accounting Office issued report GAO/NSIAD-95-187 to Representative Steven H. Schiff on its search for government records about the 1947 crash near Roswell, New Mexico. GAO found that some Roswell Army Air Field records, including outgoing messages from 1946 to 1949, had been destroyed with no stated authority. Only two 1947 records turned up: a 509th Bomb Group history and an FBI teletype. Both describe the recovered object as a radar-tracking or weather balloon.

  • p. 2 …a Search for Records Concerning the 1947 Crash Near Roswell, New Mexico GAO/NSIAD-95-187
  • p. 4 …On July 8, 1947, the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) public information office in Roswell, New…
  • p. 5 …In our search for records concerning the Roswell crash, we learned that some government records covering…
  • p. 6 …Search for Records In searching for government records on the Roswell crash, we were particularly interested…
  • p. 7 …searched for other government records on the Roswell crash. In this regard, the Chief Archivist for…
  • p. 8 …Because the FBI message reported that debris from the Roswell crash was being transported to Wright…
  • p. 9 B-262046 happened near Roswell in July 1947 and that all available official materials indicated the…
  • p. 10 …Current and past records management regulations Report of Air Force Research Regarding the Roswell Incident, July…
  • p. 11 …what government records they have on the Roswell crash. We did not independently verify the information…
  • p. 14 …Investigation FOIA Freedom of Information Act RAAF Roswell Army Air Field GAO/NSIAD-95-187 Government…
B-262046
We also queried the National Security Council, the White House Office of
Science and Technology Policy, the Department of Energy, the FBI, DOD,
and the CIA to determine what government records they have on the
Roswell crash. We did not independently verify the information provided
to us in their written responses.
In addition to physically examining government records, we contacted the
following federal activities to determine whether they had any information
about the Roswell crash:
• Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama;
• Air Force Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,
Ohio;
• Army Center for Military History, Washington, D.C.; and
• 509th Bomb Wing, Office of the Historian, Whiteman Air Force Base,
Missouri.
We conducted our review from March 1994 to June 1995 in accordance
with generally accepted government auditing standards.
Unless you publicly announce its contents earlier, we plan no further
distribution of this report until 30 days after its issue date. At that time, we
will make copies available to other interested parties upon request.
If you or your staff have any questions about this report, please call me on
(202) 512-3504. A major contributor to this report is Gary K. Weeter,
Assistant Director.
Sincerely yours,
Richard Davis
Director, National Security
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