“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…
service. Most, however, related their stories in their older years, well after the fact.
In other cases, the information provided is second or thirdhand, having been
passed through a friend or relative after the principal had died. What is uniquely
lacking in the entire exploration and exploitation of the "Roswell Incident" is
official positive documentary or physical evidence of any kind that supports the
claims of those who allege that something unusual happened. Conversely, there
has never been any previous documentary evidence produced by those who
would debunk the incident to show that something did not happen; although
logic dictates that bureaucracies do not spend time documenting nonevents.
SEARCH STRATEGY AND METHODOLOGY
To insure senior Air Force leadership that there were no hidden or overlooked
files that might relate to the "Roswell Incident," and to provide the GAO with the
best and most complete information available, SAF I AAZ constructed a strategy
based on direct tasking from the Office of the Secretary, to elicit information from
those functional offices and organizations where such information might logically
be contained. This included directing searches at current offices where special or
unusual projects might be carried out, as well as historical organizations, archives,
and records centers over which the Air Force exerted some degree of control.
Researchers did not, however, go to the US Army to review historical records in
areas such as missile launches from White Sands, or to the Department of Energy
to determine if its forerunner, the Atomic Energy Commission, had any records
of nuclear-related incidents that might have occurred at or near Roswell in 1947.
To do so would have encroached on GAO's charter in this matter. What Air Force
researchers did do, however, was to search for records still under Air Force
control pertaining to these subject areas.
In order to determine parameters for the most productive search of records, a
review was first conducted of the major works regarding the "Roswell Incident"
available in the popular literature. These works included: The Roswell Incident
(1980) by William Moore and Charles Berlitz; "Crashed Saucers: Evidence in
Search of Proof" (1985) by Moore; The UFO Crash at Roswell (1991) by Kevin
Randle and Donald Schmitt; The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell (1994), also
by Randle and Schmitt; The Roswell Report: A Historical Perspective (1991), George
M. Eberhart, editor; "The Roswell Events" (1993) compiled by Fred Whiting; Crash
at Corona (1992) by Stanton T. Friedman and Don Berliner; and numerous other
articles written by a combination of the above and other researchers. Collectively,
the above represent the "pro" UFO writers who allege that the government is
engaged in a conspiracy. There are no specific books written entirely on the theme
that nothing happened at Roswell. However, Curtis Peebles in Watch the Skies!
(1994) discussed the development of the UFO story and growth of subsequent
claims as a phenomenon. There has also been serious research as well as a
number of detailed articles written by so-called "debunkers" of Roswell and other
incidents, most notably Philip J. Klass, who writes The Skeptic's UFO Newsletter,
and Robert Todd, a private researcher. The concerns and claims of all the above
authors and others were considered in conducting the USAF records search.
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