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This July 1994 Department of the Air Force package, from SAF/AAZ to the Secretary of the Air Force, covers a report written to support a General Accounting Office audit requested by Congressman Steven Schiff. The Air Force searched its offices, archives and records centers and interviewed witnesses, including Sheridan Cavitt. It found no evidence of an extraterrestrial event, alien bodies or a cover-up. It concludes that the debris recovered near Roswell in 1947 most likely came from a Project MOGUL balloon.
“The Times”22 pages
- p. 1 …Nevertheless, the attached report is a good faith effort and the first time
any agency of…
- p. 3 …until the 1978-1980 time frame. Prior to that, the incident was dismissed
because the AAF…
- p. 5 …times, most research-
ers will not dispute that anything in UFO history can compare with the…
- p. 6 …the "Roswell Incident" was not considered one of these
1947 events until the 1978-1980 time…
- p. 7 …weather balloons on the ranch, but_that what he found this time did
not in any…
- p. 8 …the persons interviewed were, in fact, stationed at, or lived
near Roswell during the time in…
- p. 9 …Collectively,
the above represent the "pro" UFO writers who allege that the government is
engaged in…
- p. 12 …at Roswell Army Air Field during the period of time in
question. It is anticipated that…
- p. 13 …Since much of this testing done at nearby White Sands
was secret at the time, it…
- p. 14 …the 509th
Bomb Group was the only military unit in the world at the time that…
- p. 15 …If such a system had been in effect at the time, it would
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- p. 16 …Marcel, MD (son of the late Major Jesse Marcel; .11 years old at the time
of…
- p. 17 …Brazel; 14 years old at the time of the
incident). Affidavit dated September 22, 1993. " ... The…
- p. 18 …He thought at the time, and continued to do so today, that what he found was…
- p. 20 …of the project, but they did not know of the project
nickname at the time. They…
- p. 21 …Additionally, a copy of a professional journal maintained at the time by A.P.
Crary, provided…
- p. 23 …first generation) prints of the
photographs taken at the time by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram…
- p. 24 …Although that project was Top Secret at the time, there was
also no specific indication found…
- p. 25 …good faith but in the
"fog of time," misinterpreted past events. The review of Air Force…
- p. 27 …the Roswell Incident,
this event has become the most celebrated UFO encounter of all time and…
- p. 29 …such
amusing events as the one reported by the New York Times in which a secret…
- p. 30 …such
amusing events as the one reported by the New York Times in which a secret…
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON OC 20330-1000
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF TilE AIR FORCE
FROM: SAF/AAZ
1720 Air Force Pentagon
Washington, DC 20330-1720
SUBJECT: Report of Air Force Research Regarding the "Roswell Incident"
JUL 2 7 19~·M
Attached is a report prepared in support of a General Accounting Office (GAO) audit that
is seeking to identify information concerning the "Roswell Incident." The report documents the
considerable effort expended by numerous Air Force offices and personnel in this matter.
The Air Force efforts did not identify any indication that the "Roswell Incident" was any
type of extraterrestrial event or that the Air Force has engaged in a 47 year conspiracy or "cover-
up" of information relating to it. Therefore, it is assumed that pro-UFO groups will strongly
object to the attached report and denounce it as either shortsighted or a continuation of the
"cover-up" conspiracy. Nevertheless, the attached report is a good faith effort and the first time
any agency of the government has positively responded officially to the ever-escalating claims
surrounding the Roswell matter.
Attachment:
Report of Research Regarding
the "Roswell Incident", 27 Jul 94
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