“US Air Force”60+ pages
- p. 5 …Jacob Neufeld shared with us their wide knowledge of Air Force history. Also,
Robert "Gus" Bell…
- p. 6 …very useful experiences and insights.
We are most grateful to the members of Air Force Publishing…
- p. 9 …The Report of the Air Force Research Regarding
the "Roswell Incident" by Col. Richard L. Weaver…
- p. 18 …balloons still widely used today. Col. Marcellus Duffy, a respected Air Force
pilot and scientific administrator…
- p. 19 …Air Force officers received the
intimate details that linked together these unrelated research projects. The use…
- p. 26 …that in July of 1947, the US Army Air Forces
(USAAF) recovered a flying saucer and…
- p. 28 …General Roger Ramey,
Commander of the Eighth Air Force at Forth Worth, Texas, stated that upon…
- p. 30 …These locations
include Fort Worth, Texas, the home of the Eighth Air Force Headquarters;
possibly Sandia…
- p. 31 …Air Force exerted some degree of control.
Researchers did not, however, go to the US Army…
- p. 32 …of the
Air Force or the Senior Security Official of the Air Force that would officially…
- p. 35 …US Army, the subject has
also been very well documented over the years within Air Force…
- p. 36 …There were no ancillary records in Air Force files to
indicate the potential existence of such…
- p. 44 …She provided the
Air Force researchers with this material. It is discussed in more detail within…
- p. 46 …wooden materials used in the radar
target previously described.
CONCLUSION
The Air Force research did not…
- p. 67 OF"F'1C£ 0~ THE SECRETARY
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON DC 20330-1000
MEMORANDUM…
- p. 73 …Serious UFO researchers believe that the Air Force now wishes
the American public, to know the…
- p. 76 …An electronic search of the Air Force Historical Research Agency archives, again,
several million pages of…
- p. 81 …AFR 127-4, Investigating and Reporting US Air Force Mishaps (attached), provides
guidance for Air Force…
- p. 94 AFP 127-1 Volume 1, US Air Force Guide to Mishap Investiqation
(AFSA/SEP)
AFP 127…
- p. 101 …microfilm roll33,764 indicates that the Fourth Air Force and its A-2 intelligence
section apparently…
- p. 114 …These
records contain documents on investigative
policy and Air Force Office of Special
Investigation reports of…
- p. 147 …iz he can use as comin~
!rom him - not an Air Force or General Varxienberg
statement…
- p. 163 …Weaver and I am talking to Lt Col Sheridan Cavitt, US Air Force, Retired. Also present…
- p. 168 …something like, "I took it to 8th Air Force Headquarters, General Ramey was excited; they were…
- p. 169 …He use to be a mechanic at
one time, Rick did, in the Air Force; the…
- p. 184 …The Air Force having the .. .I
mean we were close knit and it seemed that there…
- p. 186 …Has anybody in the US Government, the Air Force, or anyone connected with the
Government, ever…
- p. 189 …commander of the Eight Air Force, but
be and Blanchard use to have some... (unintelligible). Oh…
- p. 195 …COITDllal'lding General, Army Air Forces, Washington 25, D.C.
THRU& (AC/A5-4)
1. To…
- p. 201 …The Army Air Force had
seen what the Japanese had done with long range balloons; although…
- p. 202 …mathematically-therefore using it was natural. Ramey's press
conference-the Air Force position makes sense…
- p. 213 …I was provided a background on the Air Force efforts related to the GAO audit and…
- p. 221 …were assigned under
Colonel Duffy in the Air Force liaison office. Istvan's name
you'll…
- p. 224 …There was a great argume·n.t that went on between the Army Air
Force and…
- p. 227 …The
pressure from the Air Force was enormous. There was a similar
problem, of course, in…
- p. 229 …cord we used was
not strong enough at all to hold the forces that came, so…
- p. 235 …That caused the Army Air Force to
begin this research.
- p. 236 …These are subsequent documents of people in the Air
Force considering the desirability of it.
After…
- p. 244 …By and large, people thought we were flying balloons
for the Air Force.
Q: As far…
- p. 246 …reports from the
people at later Holloman Air Force Base, Mogul appears in things
that are…
- p. 254 …staff
of 8th Air Force said that the Air Force was now using radar
targets to…
- p. 255 …General Ramey, Commander, 8th Air Forces, cleared up the mystery.
A: In these pictures here, don…
- p. 260 …We were strongly encouraged not
to mix in the Air Force with what we did. Everything…
- p. 265 …Alamagordo people or anyone else around 8th
Air Force.
A: There were some fancy orders that…
- p. 266 …These are the pictures taken in General Ramey's office,
8th Air Force Headquarters by a…
- p. 273 …The Air Force position on that is that it was
a misidentified balloon. The balloon was…
- p. 274 …using devices that I had developed in the Signal Corps. I was an Air Force officer…
- p. 277 …Signal Corps and Army Air Force?
A: All the officers that I had on my staff…
- p. 278 …potential problem that might
warrant scrutiny by Air Force intelligence or security people?
A: We were…
- p. 280 …Did you have any interaction with the people at Eighth Air Force such as General Ramey…
- p. 282 …Baltimore, I spent four years at the Air Force Research and Development Command Office in Brussels…
- p. 309 …the behest of the Secretary of the
Air Force, for the GAO, to leok into facts…
- p. 317 DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON OC 20330-1000
OFFICt: OF THE ~ECRETARY
JUL 2 7…
- p. 318 …classified payloads for a Top Secret US
Army Air Forces project. The project's classified code…
- p. 319 …research agency of the US Army Air Forces (USAAF), the Air
Materiel Command (AMC), early in…
- p. 320 …USAAF, as the Army Air Forces Liaison Officer to the US
Army Signal Corps, with primary…
- p. 327 …Andrews AAF was headquarters
of the Army Air Forces Weather Service. It is also interesting to…
- p. 425 …completed to the sponsoring
agency for use of Air Force scientific personnel.
On 27 February 1948…
- p. 426 …systems
was to be submitted to the Air Force. Modification #9 revised
the delivery address for…
- p. 434 …It was also employed to give tpformation on Neutron intensities
1h another Air Force project(5…
INTRODUCTION
Air Force involvement in the alleged UFO-related incident popularly known as
the "Roswell Incident" began as the result of a January 14, 1994, Washington Post
article (Atch 1) which announced Congressman Steven Schiff's intent to initiate
a GAO effort to resolve this controversial matter. Having previously been
involved in numerous Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Congressional
requests on "unusual aircraft," to include Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), The
Director, Security and Special Program Oversight, Office of the Secretary of the
Air Force (SAF I AAZ), believed the Air Force would become involved in any
GAO effort involving this subject.
Thus, in late January, 1994, SAF I AAZ directed its research/ declassification team,
SAF I AAZD, to attempt to locate any official records relative to this matter. These
initial research efforts focused on records at the Air Force Historical Research
Agency (AFHRA), Maxwell Air Force Base (AFB), AL, the Air Force Safety
Agency (AFSA) at Kirtland AFB, NM, and the National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA).
On February 15, 1994, the GAO officially notified Secretary of Defense William
J. Perry that it was initiating an audit of the Department of Defense (DoD)
policies and procedures for acquiring, classifying, retaining, and disposing of
official government documents dealing with weather balloon, aircraft, and similar
crash incidents (Atch 2). This notification was subsequently passed to the
Department of Defense Inspector General who in tum officially notified the
Secretaries of the Services and other affected parties of the audit in a February 23,
1994, memo (Atch 3). This memorandum indicated that the IIGAO is anxious to
respond to Representative Schiff's request and to dispel any concerns that the
DoD is being unresponsive." These were the first official US Government
documents that indicated that the purpose of the GAO was to review "crash
incidents involving weather balloons and unknown aircraft, such as UFOs and
foreign aircraft, and (2) the facts involving the reported crash of an UFO in 1949
[sic, 1947] at Roswell, New Mexico ... [and an] alleged DoD cover-up."
An entrance meeting of potentially concerned parties was held in the offices of
the DoD Inspector General on February 28, 1994. During this meeting it was
learned that, while the audit officially would be reviewing the records of a
number of DoD (and possibly other Executive Branch entities), the bulk of the
effort would be focused on Air Force records and systems. The audit was
officially given the GAO code 701034 and entitled "Records Management
Procedures Dealing With Weather Balloon, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash
Incidents." Although this official title appeared rather broad, there was no
misunderstanding that the real purpose was to attempt to locate records and/or
information on the "Roswell Incident." This incident, explained later in more
detail, generally dealt with the claim that in July of 1947, the US Army Air Forces
(USAAF) recovered a flying saucer and I or its alien occupants which supposedly
crashed near Roswell, New Mexico. When the USAAF ultimately became the
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