“small beings”49 pages
- p. 17 …Others remain nonbelievers or
at least skeptical of the existence of alien beings and elusive vehicles…
- p. 19 …Moreover, operational necessity required that these balloons be launched during daylight
hours. It was therefore not…
- p. 30 …This has since grown from a minimal amount of debris recovered from
a small area to…
- p. 35 …This included, for example, a small
amount of missing "decimal files" from the 509th Bomb Group…
- p. 36 …This was a small section of the July Historical Report for the 509th Bomb Group
and…
- p. 37 …To believe that such operational and high-level security activity could be
conducted solely by relying…
- p. 39 …The foil-rubber material could not
be tom like ordinary aluminum foil can be tom... "
Sally…
- p. 40 …Although there does not appear to be much dispute that
Cavitt was involved in the material…
- p. 43 …Lt Col Cavitt described a small area of debris which appeared, "to
resemble bamboo type square…
- p. 72 …being per:ormed on these bodies.
The bodies were described as the body of a small…
- p. 99 …It should be noted that the period from approximately 1946 to 1950 is the least well…
- p. 105 …Several small projects were completed during ~1e mont.~ includine
signs on all the·office doors, a…
- p. 149 …Streett 1s
office recaumends against it on the ground that that is a
small enterprize down…
- p. 159 …I do not recall the incident being mentioned again as being any big
deal and I…
- p. 201 …We even simulated a small lightning strike over dry snow (just
from the snow blowing over…
- p. 258 …Big plastic
balloon with small auxiliary plastics," etc. "Watson Lab and
gear." "Followed" (inaudible) "receiver until…
- p. 261 …explain bodies or material that can't be
folded) by a sledge hammer.
Q: Let's…
- p. 328 …The witnesses have recalled small pink/purple "flowers" that appeared I to be
some sort of…
- p. 401 …b7 how ra*
the receiver •7 be re110ve~ .t'rows the pre~er. red height withqut…
- p. 443 …geostrophic wind (the latter being
derived under certain simplifying assumptions) and since the
geometry of the…
- p. 458 …Two designs which compro-
mise extreme cost (required for balloons of high internal pressure)
with small…
- p. 479 …This means that several hours might be required to fall through
the lanes of aircraft traffic…
- p. 484 …The change in drag effect may be realized by a decrease of
relative size of the…
- p. 487 (a)
Then:
(9)
or for small temperature differences:
(10) : - _L (.AI.)1-B T
the nega…
- p. 490 …gas of a balloon can be lost by:
leakage through small holes in the fabric or…
- p. 491 …for l:n•y small section of altitude is assumed
to be constant); and re.J…
- p. 506 in the preceding, section on diffusion end leakage the appendix
opening should be small. It can…
- p. 521 …is li~ited as indicated
above, small variations may be detected with the result
that it…
- p. 555 …being exposed about 10 hours
at cold temperature. (:S) During the floating period :many small oscilla…
- p. 565 …The very usef.ul information about be.llast flow was reported clearly, and
the principle of…
- p. 566 …Since the small external appendix with cardboard stiffeners was not
suitable for the large balloon, a…
- p. 580 …Following the initial activation at about 38,500 feet, small oscillations were
introduced into the flight…
- p. 614 …Figure 4 shows this appendix construction on a General M lls balloon which
is being inflated…
- p. 652 …At high altitudes, a difference of 40°C may
be expected in the temperature of the…
- p. 658 …To facilitate handling of the
line segments each length is prepared with a small hook on…
- p. 672 signals may be arranged so as to consume a very
small portion of -transmission time.
D…
- p. 738 …These values may
be compared with a diffusion loss of lift of the order
of magnitude…
- p. 742 …The constancy of level will be better the lower the
diffusion and the lower, therefore, the…
- p. 762 …te
.::mrcht:.se of small item£. A furth..:r rec:uest ~s been subr:rl tte…
- p. 783 …be of such a valve that
with a large r~diosonde frequency variation for a small…
- p. 785 …It is expected that this
equipment will be flown about 8 l-1ay. A description of…
- p. 815 …Before gear could be recovered, most of it had be~~tolen. Stations operating
at north hanger…
- p. 842 …Range started to slowly increase as did elevation with azimuth being
stationary. The echo remained beyond…
- p. 862 …By using this
stressed tape design, much larger loads may be carried than
the thin polyethylene…
- p. 874 …At this point, two small holes about
18" apart have been made, and the rip line…
- p. 881 …If thodolite stadia determinations are being
made, the banner can be used as one of the…
- p. 898 …laid out, A small amount of gas at very low pressure
Should be valved into the…
- p. 910 …The motor gears may be cleaned with
carbon tetrachloride and a small clean brush.
If the…
- p. 918 …Each combination of dots or dashes may be identified
by ear, and with a calibration chart…
USAF in September, 1947, the USAF inherited equipment, personnel, records,
policies, and procedures from the AAF. In this particular case, the Air Force also
inherited the allegation that it had "covered up" the "Roswell Incident" and has
continued to do so for the next 47 years.
Within the Air Force, the Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary
of the Air Force (SAF I AA) is responsible both for information management
procedures (SAF I AAI) and security policy and oversight (SAF I AAZ). Because of
this organization, SAF I AA was the logical entity to assist the GAO in its audit,
and SAF I AAZ was officially named a~ the Central Point of Contact for this
endeavor (Atch 4). Subsequently, the then-Administrative Assistant, Mr. Robert
J. McCormick, issued a tasking memorandum dated March 1, 1994 (Atch 5), to a
number of current Air Staff and Secretariat offices that might possibly have
records related to such an incident if, indeed, something had actually occurred.
This search for records was purposely limited to· Air Force records and systems
since:
(a) The Air Force had no authority to compel other agencies to review their
records;
(b) The Air Force would have no way to monitor the completeness of their
efforts if they did; and
(c) the overall effort was the task and responsibility of the GAO-not the Air
Force.
During the in-briefing process with GAO, it was learned that this audit was,
indeed, generated at the specific request of Congressman Steven Schiff of New
Mexico. Earlier, Congressman Schiff had written to the Department of Defense
Legislative Liaison Office for information on the "Roswell Incident" and had been
advised that it was part of the former UFO "Project Bluebook" that had previ-
ously been turned over to NARA by the Air Force. Congressman Schiff subse-
quently learned from NARA that, although they did, indeed, have the "Bluebook"
materials, the "Roswell Incident" was not part of that report. Congressman Schiff,
apparently perceiving that he had been "stonewalled" by the DoD, then generated
the request for the aforementioned audit.
It is within this context that the following research and assistance efforts were
conducted in support of the GAO. This report is intended to stand as the final
official Air Force response regarding this matter.
THE "ROSWELL INCIDENT"-WHAT WAS ORIGINALLY REPORTED IN 1947
The modem preoccupation with what ultimately came to be called Unidentified
Flying Objects (UFOs) actually began in June, 1947. Although some pro-UFO
researchers argue that sightings of UFOs go back to Biblical times, most research-
ers will not dispute that anything in UFO history can compare with the phenome-
non that began in 1947. What was later characterized as "the UFO Wave of 1947"
began with 16 alleged sightings that occurred between May 17 and July 12, 1947
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