“GAO”35 pages
- p. 3 …Force and to the General Accounting Office (GAO). It was written
as a result of Colonel…
- p. 11 …Washington Post, "GAO Turns to Alien Turf in Probe," January 14, 1994
2. Letter and GAO…
- p. 12 …Jr., AF/SE, for SAF/AAZ, subj: GAO Review
on Records Management Procedures with Weather Balloons…
- p. 17 …In February 1994, the Air Force was informed that the General Accounting Office (GAO),
an investigative…
- p. 21 …in support of a General Accounting Office (GAO) audit that
is seeking to identify information concerning…
- p. 25 …In February, 1994, the General Account-
ing Office (GAO), acting on the request of a New…
- p. 26 …On February 15, 1994, the GAO officially notified Secretary of Defense William
J. Perry that it…
- p. 27 …Because of
this organization, SAF I AA was the logical entity to assist the GAO in…
- p. 31 …To do so would have encroached on GAO's charter in this matter. What Air Force…
- p. 35 …One of the additional areas specifically set forth by GAO in its efforts was to deal…
- p. 41 …target."
Balloon Research
The original tasking from GAO noted that the search for information included
"weather…
- p. 47 …Washington Post Article, "GAO Turns to Alien Turf in New Probe,"
January 14, 1994
2. GAO…
- p. 51 A22 FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1994
GAO Turns to Alien Turf in Probe
Bodies of Space Voyagers…
- p. 55 …DOD Office of the Inspector General
Director for GAO Surveys and Reviews
Dear Mr. Secretary:
In…
- p. 56 ISSUE:
GAO ENTRANCE CONFERENCE FOR
ASSIGNMENT CODE 701034
Has the Government met its responsibility in the…
- p. 59 …SEE DISTRIBUTION
Genoral Ac:c:ounti.nq Offic:a (GAO) Latter Dated
February 9, 1994, •aeccrds…
- p. 60 2
We have scheduled an entrance meetinq with the GAO for·
February 28, 1994, 10:00…
- p. 63 …GAO Review Letter Dated February 15, 1994, wRecords
Management Procedures Dealing With Weather Balloon,
Unknown Aircraft…
- p. 64 …Central Point of Contact., GAO Code 701034
l. CPC Richard L. Weaver Co 1 ,SAF/AAZ…
- p. 67 …GAO Review on Records Management Procedures Dealing with
Weather Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents…
- p. 68 …GAO Review on Records Management Procedures Dealing with
Weather Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents…
- p. 71 …FORCE
MEMORANDUM FOR
FROM: AFiiN
SUBJECT:
References:
GAO Inquiry into Records Management Procedures Dealing with Weather…
- p. 77 …Because the GAO will have searched the records of many federal agencies, HQ NAIC
suggests that…
- p. 81 …GAO Review on Records Management Procedures Dealing with Weather Balloons,
Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents…
- p. 85 …GAO Review on Records Management Procedures Dealing with
Weather Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents…
- p. 89 …GAO Review on Records Management Procedures Dealing with Weather
Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents…
- p. 93 …GAO Review of Records Manaqement Procedures Dealinq with
Weather Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash
Incidents…
- p. 97 …AL 36112-6424
8 Mar 94
SUBJECT: GAO Review on Records Management Procedures Dealing with
Weather…
- p. 98 REPORT
GAO INVESTIGATION OF "THE ROSWELL INCIDENT":
RELEVANT HOLDINGS AT THE AFHRA
8 March 1994
Preface…
- p. 113 …DC 20332-0001
11 May 1994
SUBJECT: GAO Review on Records Management Procedures (Your memo 16…
- p. 181 …Asking the GAO to look at
this. Karl pt}ock...
SC: You know, you can look…
- p. 213 …I was provided a background on the Air Force efforts related to the GAO audit and…
- p. 309 …Secretary of the
Air Force, for the GAO, to leok into facts concerning what has become…
- p. 317 …in support of the General Accounting Office (GAO) audit that
focused on obtaining infonnation relative to…
- p. 594 …Assuming gao-
strophic tlaw, members or a graduate class in meteorology at New York
personnel, transfers, routine administrative actions, etc.). No mention of the Roswell
incident was found in them.
Result of the Search - Card Catalog and IRIS
On 3 March 1994 appropriate rubrics in the Agency's card catalog such as "Roswell,"
"Roswell AAFld," "UFO(s)," "Unidentified Flying Objects," "Weather Balloon(s)," were
examined. No entries were found which identified information remotely related to the
Roswell incident
The Agency's IRIS electronic data base was also queried for potential entries. The
following key words or phases were entered:
ROSWELL
UFO
UFOS
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS
WEATHER BALLOON
WEATHER BALLOONS
The IRIS search produced no documents concerned with a flying disc and/or weather
balloon crash at Roswell AAFld. The IRIS search, however, did reveal a sub-stantial file
in AFHRA microfilm roll 33,764, beginning frame 562, which is concerned with flying
disk reports in the western United States during the summer and fall of 1947. This file
was apparently maintained by the Air Force Missile Development Command. It reveals
contemporary investigative agencies, methods, and personalities both Air Force and
civilian, thus it provides archival clues for further investigation of the Roswell incident
Extracts from microfilm roll 33,764 are attached as Appendix U
Finally, a passage mentioning balloon operations from Holloman AFB during June-July
1947 was located in AFHRA I<280.10-54G, 1947-1958, Contributions of Balloon Operations
to Research and Development at the Air Force Missile Development Center, Holloman Air Force
Base, N. Mex., 1947-1950 (Holloman AFB, NM: AFMDC, n.d.), pp. 1-2 (Appendix Ill).
This passage indicates that a cluster of "rubber-type weather balloons" was launched at
Holloman AFB on 5 June 1947, the equipment from which was recovered. A second
launch of polyethylene balloons was made on 3 July, the equipment for which was not
recovered.
Aircraft or "Vehicle" Crash Reports
The AFHRA does not hold aircraft accident reports. The office of record for such reports
is the Air Force Safety Agency/SERR, Kirtland AFB, NM.