“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…
Not surprisingly, the research team found the usual number of problems in many
of the records centers (particularly St. Louis) with misfiling, lost or misplaced
documents, mismarking of documents, or the breaking up of record groups over
the years and refiling in different systems. This included, for example, a small
amount of missing "decimal files" from the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell that
covered the years 1945-1949, that were marked on the index as "destroyed." The
researchers noted that there was no pattern to any anomalies found and that most
discrepancies were minor and consistent with what they had found in the past on
similar projects.
WHAT THE ROSWELL INCIDENT WAS NOT
Before discussing specific positive results that these efforts revealed, it is first
appropriate to discuss those things, as indicated by information available to the
Air Force, that the "Roswell Incident" was not:
An Airplane Crash
Of all the things that are documented and tracked within the Air Force, among
the most detailed and scrupulous are airplane crashes. In fact, records of air
crashes go back to the first years of military flight. Safety records and reports are
available for all crashes that involved serious damage, injury, death, or a
combination of these factors. These records also include incidents involving
experimental or classified aircraft. USAF records showed that between June 24,
1947, and July 28, 1947, there were five crashes in New Mexico alone, involving
A-26C, P-51N, C-82A, P-80A, and PQ-14B aircraft; however, none of these
occurred on the date(s) in question nor in the area(s) in question.
One of the additional areas specifically set forth by GAO in its efforts was to deal
with how the Air Force (and others) specifically documented" ... weather balloon
... and other crash incidents." In this area, the search efforts revealed that there
are no air safety records pertaining to weather balloon crashes (all weather
balloons "crash" sooner or later); however, there are provisions for generating
reports of "crashes" as ground safety incidents in the unlikely chance that a
balloon injures someone or causes damage. Such records are only maintained for
five years.
A Missile Crash
A crashed or errant missile, usually described as a captured German V-2 or one
of its variants, is sometimes set forth as a possible explanation for the debris
recovered near Roswell. Since much of this testing done at nearby White Sands
was secret at the time, it would be logical to assume that the government would
handle any missile mishap under tight security, particularly if the mishap
occurred on private land. From the records reviewed by the Air Force, however,
there was nothing located to suggest that this was the case. Although the bulk of
remaining testing records are under the control of the US Army, the subject has
also been very well documented over the years within Air Force records. There
would be no reason to keep such information classified today. The USAF found
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