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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. 3 …Prior to that, the incident was dismissed because the AAF originally identified the debris recovered as…
  • p. 6 …When the debris was gathered up the tinfoil, paper, tape, and sticks made a bundle about…
  • p. 7 …Marcel, claimed that he had recovered UFO debris near Roswell in 1947. Also in 1978, a…
  • p. 8 example, it was originally reported that there was o~y recovery of debris from one site…
  • p. 10 …the exact location(s) of the purported debris, and the extent of the wreckage. Such discrepancies…
  • p. 13 …forth as a possible explanation for the debris recovered near Roswell. Since much of this testing…
  • p. 16 …There were three categories of debris: a thick, foil like metallic gray substance; a brittle, brownish…
  • p. 17 …The debris looked like pieces of a large balloon which had burst. The pieces were small…
  • p. 18 …while I was examining the debris, Major Marcel was picking up pieces of the target sticks…
  • p. 21 …Lt Col Cavitt described a small area of debris which appeared, "to resemble bamboo type square…
  • p. 22 …Pflock concluded from his research that the Brazel Ranch debris originally reported as a "flying disc…
  • p. 24 …This organiza- tion was able to obtain measurements from the "sticks" visible in the debris after…
  • p. 26 …Photos of ML-307C/ AP Device, With Vintage Neoprene Balloon and Debris 32. Synopsis of Balloon…
  • p. 29 …Additionally, many claims of a flying saucer crash at Roswell rest on the description of debris…
  • p. 30 …Additionally, many claims of a flying saucer crash at Roswell rest on the description of debris…
  • p. 31 …not compare the descriptions of the suspect debris with that of the components of a Project…
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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