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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 …debris recovered as being that of a weather balloon. Subsequently, various authors wrote a number of…
  • p. 4 …disposing of official government documents dealing with weather balloon, aircraft, and similar crash incidents (Atch 2…
  • p. 6 …by Marcel was determined to be a weather balloon. The wreckage was described as a 11…
  • p. 7 …Brazel said that he had previously found two weather balloons on the ranch, but_that what…
  • p. 13 …weather balloon . . . and other crash incidents." In this area, the search efforts revealed that there are…
  • p. 16 …the object found resem- bles a high altitude weather balloon with a radar reflector.... disc and…
  • p. 17 …They told us the material was a weather balloon, but I'm certain it wasn't…
  • p. 18 …today, that what he found was a weather balloon and has told other private researchers that…
  • p. 19 …Balloon Research The original tasking from GAO noted that the search for information included "weather balloons…
  • p. 21 …I remember recognizing this material as being consistent with a weather balloon." Concerning the initial announcement…
  • p. 22 …knew enough about radar targets, radiosondes, balloon- borne weather devices. He was intimately familiar with all…
  • p. 23 …then it was subsequently removed and the weather balloon wreckage substituted for it, a comparison shows…
  • p. 24 …It appears that the identification of the wreckage as being part of a weather balloon device…
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.