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- p. 2 …SSOP, Washington, DC 20402-9328
ISBN 0-16-048023-X
- p. 5 …Jim Bruns acquainted himself with the numerous research facilities available in the
Washington, DC, area, and…
- p. 6 …At the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, DC, it was a
pleasure to collaborate…
- p. 11 …s Report of Air Force Research:
1. Washington Post, "GAO Turns to Alien Turf in Probe…
- p. 21 …OF THE SECF>PARY
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON DC 20330-1000
:MEMORANDUM FOR THE…
- p. 26 …the result of a January 14, 1994, Washington Post
article (Atch 1) which announced Congressman Steven…
- p. 34 …SAF/ AAZD conducted reviews at a number of locations,
including the National Archives in Washington, DC…
- p. 37 …involved Ellington
Field, Texas and the Spokane (Washington) Depot. After much discussion and
information gathering on…
- p. 47 …GAO, or any other inquiries.
Attachments
1. Washington Post Article, "GAO Turns to Alien Turf in…
- p. 51 …Disappeared in 19 47
By William Claiborne
Washington Poat Staff Writer
Where television's "Unsolved Mysteries…
- p. 55 …from our National Security Analysis group in
washington, D.C. If you have any questions concerning…
- p. 63 …SAF/FMPF
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON OC
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- p. 67 OF"F'1C£ 0~ THE SECRETARY
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON DC 20330-1000
MEMORANDUM…
- p. 68 OFF'ICE OF" TME SECRETA~Y
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON DC 20330-1000
MEMORANDUM…
- p. 72 …552}
Department of the Air Force
HQ OSAF/DADF
Washington, DC 20380
RE: ALIEN BUMANOIDS/OFO…
- p. 75 …of its
license by government officials in Washington, DC, if it
broadcast the story about the…
- p. 81 DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON DC
MEMORANDUM FOR SAF/AAZ…
- p. 85 OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON DC
MEMORANDUM FOR SAF/AA…
- p. 89 …HQ USAF/XOWP
1490 Air Force Pentagon
Washington DC 20330-1490
SUBJECT: GAO Review on Records…
- p. 93 OF"F"ICE OF" THE SECRETARY
SAF/AAIQ
1610 Air Force
Washington, DC
MEMORANDUM FOR
DEPARTMENT…
- p. 101 …and Records Administration (NARA),
either at the Washington National Records Center (WNRq or the Southwest Regional…
- p. 108 …Hartzop, Jr.,
Arrrr:r Air Forces, Washington, D. c., .arrived .for investi-
gation of the B…
- p. 133 HEADQUARTERS, ARMY AIR FORCES
WASHINGTON
SUBJECT: Iuuance o! Ordera
!01 Couaa8.1ng General
.A.1r Materiel…
- p. 159 …24 May 94 Place: ,Washington
:..p.f'/ I Sheridan W.Cavitt, hereby state that Richard L…
- p. 168 …I don't remember anybody from Washington coming there. It's possible that somebody came
over…
- p. 169 …maybe
somewhere to an Air Force Base up here in Washington.
MC: Fort Lewis, I think…
- p. 170 …It's in the Washington DC area. I forget since I was there in the Washington…
- p. 178 …Yeah, but you said you would have known if anybody from Washington had come into your…
- p. 179 normal course of his duty was sent to Washington not 8th Air Force in Fort Worth…
- p. 195 …COITDllal'lding General, Army Air Forces, Washington 25, D.C.
THRU& (AC/A5-4)
1. To…
- p. 241 …Not ever in Washington?
- p. 242 …I visited people in Washington.
Q: Just for the record, ·Major Marcel later worked at
AFOAT…
- p. 300 …Center for Military History, 14th St NW Washington DC
Dr Bennett, Curator
DrDrea
Ms Hannah Zeidlik…
- p. 317 DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON OC 20330-1000
OFFICt: OF THE ~ECRETARY
JUL 2 7…
- p. 709 …of Phase II be presented to the Washington Subcommittee for
clearance with all other Regional Airspace…
- p. 712 …coordination was effected
with the Washington Airspace SUbcommittee tmmediately subsequent to our
Meeting #12. It "WaS…
- p. 723 …on representative preaeurea and temperatures
taken from Washington, Albuquerque, Pittsburgh and Lakehurst soundings.
Individual variations from…
- p. 731 …538, National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics, Washington, D. c. September, 1935.
8. Timoshenko, MacCullough, Elements of…
- p. 791 …of Phase II be presented to the Washington Subcommittee for
clearance with all other Hegional Airspace…
- p. 792 …That the Washington Airspace Subcommittee present the Phase
II operation to other Regional Airspace Subcommittees for…
- p. 807 …Peoples in Washington regarding balloon ascention in June, Made plans
for flight 20 which was made…
- p. 809 …At 0930 went up J.o Math DQ&rtment at NYU - Washington
Square. Met Mr Bennett…
- p. 978 …was transported to Andrews AAF,
MD (near Washington, DC), to be examined by high government officials…
- p. 992 Eiffel Tower
PARIS
1056ft
Washington Monument
WASHINGTON, D.C.
555ft
Statue
of Liberty
NEW YORK HARBOR…
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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