“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
26. Photographs, Project MOGUL Balloon Trains
27. Table No.7, Summary of NYU Constant-Level Balloon Flights, November 20,
1946-July 5, 1947
28. Museums Contacted
29. Blueprint, Comer Reflector, ML-307C/AP Assembly
30. Statement, Irving Newton, July 21,1994
31. Photographs, ML-307C/AP Device with Vintage Neoprene Balloons and Debris
32. Synopsis of Balloon Research Findings, with Memorandum
for SAF/AAZ, Att: Colonel Richard~. Weaver, by
James McAndrew, 1st Lt, USAFR
Attachments to the McAndrew Synopsis:
1. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, [July 9, 1947]
2. Organizational Chart, Watson Laboratories, January 20, 1947
3. Drawing, NYU Cluster Flight No. 2
4. Illustrations, AN/CRT-1 Sonabuoy
5. Blueprint, Comer Reflector, ML-307C/AP Assembly
6. Table No. 7, Summary of NYU Constant-Level Balloon Flights, November
20, 1946-September 9, 1947
7. Map of New Mexico
8. Illustration, Weather Balloon and Comer Reflector
9. Letter, Brig GenE. O'Donnell to Commanding General AAF, July 8, 1946
10. Hieroglyphic Drawing, Charles B. Moore, August 28, 1992
11. Alamogordo News, "Fantasy of 'Flying Disc' Is Exlained Here: News Men
Watch Army Radar Crew Launch 'Disc'," July 10, 1947
Appendices to the McAndrew Synopsis:
1. Roswell Daily Record, July 9, 1947
2. Interview, Col Richard L. Weaver with Lt Col Sheridan D. Cavitt, USAF
(Ret), [May 24, 1994]
3. Statement, Irving Newton, July 21, 1994
4. Letter, Lt Col Edward A. Doty to Mr David Bushnell, March 3, 1959
5. Letter, Brig GenE. O'Donnell to Commanding General AAF, July 8, 1946
6. Report, Maurice Ewing for General Carl Spaatz, "Long Range Sound
Transmission in the Atmosphere," n.d. ·
7. Report, HQ Fitzwilliam Fwd, "Sonic Balloon Test Kwajalein," May 17,
1948
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