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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.

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  • p. 1 …in support of a General Accounting Office (GAO) audit that is seeking to identify information concerning…
  • p. 3 …In February, 1994, the General Account- ing Office (GAO), acting on the request of a New…
  • p. 4 …On February 15, 1994, the GAO officially notified Secretary of Defense William J. Perry that it…
  • p. 5 …Because of this organization, SAF I AA was the logical entity to assist the GAO in…
  • p. 9 …To do so would have encroached on GAO's charter in this matter. What Air Force…
  • p. 13 …One of the additional areas specifically set forth by GAO in its efforts was to deal…
  • p. 19 …target." Balloon Research The original tasking from GAO noted that the search for information included "weather…
  • p. 25 …This report was generated as an official response to the GAO, and to document the considerable…
  • p. 27 …In February 1994, the Air Force was informed that the General Accounting Office (GAO), an investigative…
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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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.