“GAO”35 pages
- p. 3 …Force and to the General Accounting Office (GAO). It was written
as a result of Colonel…
- p. 11 …Washington Post, "GAO Turns to Alien Turf in Probe," January 14, 1994
2. Letter and GAO…
- p. 12 …Jr., AF/SE, for SAF/AAZ, subj: GAO Review
on Records Management Procedures with Weather Balloons…
- p. 17 …In February 1994, the Air Force was informed that the General Accounting Office (GAO),
an investigative…
- p. 21 …in support of a General Accounting Office (GAO) audit that
is seeking to identify information concerning…
- p. 25 …In February, 1994, the General Account-
ing Office (GAO), acting on the request of a New…
- p. 26 …On February 15, 1994, the GAO officially notified Secretary of Defense William
J. Perry that it…
- p. 27 …Because of
this organization, SAF I AA was the logical entity to assist the GAO in…
- p. 31 …To do so would have encroached on GAO's charter in this matter. What Air Force…
- p. 35 …One of the additional areas specifically set forth by GAO in its efforts was to deal…
- p. 41 …target."
Balloon Research
The original tasking from GAO noted that the search for information included
"weather…
- p. 47 …Washington Post Article, "GAO Turns to Alien Turf in New Probe,"
January 14, 1994
2. GAO…
- p. 51 A22 FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1994
GAO Turns to Alien Turf in Probe
Bodies of Space Voyagers…
- p. 55 …DOD Office of the Inspector General
Director for GAO Surveys and Reviews
Dear Mr. Secretary:
In…
- p. 56 ISSUE:
GAO ENTRANCE CONFERENCE FOR
ASSIGNMENT CODE 701034
Has the Government met its responsibility in the…
- p. 59 …SEE DISTRIBUTION
Genoral Ac:c:ounti.nq Offic:a (GAO) Latter Dated
February 9, 1994, •aeccrds…
- p. 60 2
We have scheduled an entrance meetinq with the GAO for·
February 28, 1994, 10:00…
- p. 63 …GAO Review Letter Dated February 15, 1994, wRecords
Management Procedures Dealing With Weather Balloon,
Unknown Aircraft…
- p. 64 …Central Point of Contact., GAO Code 701034
l. CPC Richard L. Weaver Co 1 ,SAF/AAZ…
- p. 67 …GAO Review on Records Management Procedures Dealing with
Weather Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents…
- p. 68 …GAO Review on Records Management Procedures Dealing with
Weather Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents…
- p. 71 …FORCE
MEMORANDUM FOR
FROM: AFiiN
SUBJECT:
References:
GAO Inquiry into Records Management Procedures Dealing with Weather…
- p. 77 …Because the GAO will have searched the records of many federal agencies, HQ NAIC
suggests that…
- p. 81 …GAO Review on Records Management Procedures Dealing with Weather Balloons,
Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents…
- p. 85 …GAO Review on Records Management Procedures Dealing with
Weather Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents…
- p. 89 …GAO Review on Records Management Procedures Dealing with Weather
Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents…
- p. 93 …GAO Review of Records Manaqement Procedures Dealinq with
Weather Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash
Incidents…
- p. 97 …AL 36112-6424
8 Mar 94
SUBJECT: GAO Review on Records Management Procedures Dealing with
Weather…
- p. 98 REPORT
GAO INVESTIGATION OF "THE ROSWELL INCIDENT":
RELEVANT HOLDINGS AT THE AFHRA
8 March 1994
Preface…
- p. 113 …DC 20332-0001
11 May 1994
SUBJECT: GAO Review on Records Management Procedures (Your memo 16…
- p. 181 …Asking the GAO to look at
this. Karl pt}ock...
SC: You know, you can look…
- p. 213 …I was provided a background on the Air Force efforts related to the GAO audit and…
- p. 309 …Secretary of the
Air Force, for the GAO, to leok into facts concerning what has become…
- p. 317 …in support of the General Accounting Office (GAO) audit that
focused on obtaining infonnation relative to…
- p. 594 …Assuming gao-
strophic tlaw, members or a graduate class in meteorology at New York
Flig}lt 102: Released f'rom Red Bank, New Jersey, 1023 EST, December 9, 1948
Not recovered
Flight 102 was the first teat given to a 30-foot, .ool" polyethylene bal-
loon manufactured by General Mills, Inc.J with this balloon a 30-kilogram pay-
load was successfully lifted to 58,000 feet. A combination rate-of-ascent
switch and displacement switch was used to control ballast flow, but no record
of ballast was made since the ballast meter was broken at launching.
Flight data was received by three ground stations, and the signal from the
AM-1 transmitter (with about 10 pounds of batteries) was received for about
400 miles. This was a good test of the distance to which a signal may be
transmitted by the AM-1 (N.Y.U) transmitter under daytime conditions. The
trajectory of this flight is Figure 48.
STEW .. !IT
ffi
M.!=..u
··~··01010,... ... .,
------·-· ····- --- ·• --~ ---1'
• Io!IAJIC:TORY- FLo•wT 10.! 1
RELI..ASED AT RED BANK, N.J.,
DEc:. 9-1~411- 1023ESr
+---~-- ----------- ·-
Figure 48
In the height-time curve (Figure 49) it is interesting to note the descent
Which began shortly before sunset. · There is reason to believe that this
fall was being checked by ballast flow. The normal descent atter a balloon
-58-