Documents / FOIA release

rosswe1

Office of the Secretary of Defense · 31 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

Open the PDF at page 31 Original source ↗

“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 21
  • 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…
who are said to have known all about MOGUL, apparently djd not compare the
descriptions of the suspect debris with that of the components of a Project MOGUL
balloon train. MOGUL reports and documents that contain descriptions, illustrations, and
photographs have been publicly available for at least twenty years. Had the researchers
completed even a cursory comparison, they ~ould have found that the materials were
suspiciously similar; detailed examination would have shown them to be one and the
- same. In the final analysis, it appears these individuals have pursued the convenient red
herring provided by Roswell Army Airfield, while the real explanation lay just over the
Sacramento Mountains at the MOGUL launch site in Alamogordo.
This report· explains the events that transpired in and near Roswell, New Mexico, in the
summer of 1947. It is based on written documentation and first-hand accounts of
participants, all of which are provided here in their entirety. While these answers are not
as titillating as tales of unearthly craft and creatures, it is a fascinating story nonetheless.
JAMES McANDREW, 1ST LT, USAFR
Declassification and Review Officer
SAFIAAZD
4

Cases discussed

About this file

FOIA release, from the osd collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 31 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.