“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…
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strophic tlaw, members or a graduate class in meteorology at New York
OF"F'1C£ 0~ THE SECRETARY
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON DC 20330-1000
MEMORANDUM FOR DISTRIBUTION
1 March 1994
SUBJECf: GAO Review on Records Management Procedures Dealing with
Weather Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents (GAO
Code 701034)- ACTION MEMORANDUM
References: (a) 23 Feb 94 DoD/IG Memorandum, Subj, same as above
(b) 15 Feb 94 GAO Memorandum of Review Notification
The Department of Defense and other executive branch agencies are undergoing a
review by the GAO concerning whether the US government has "met its responsibility in
the handling, retention, and subsequent disposition of official records concerning the
investigation and reporting of air vehicle and other crash incidents similar to the reported
crash of a weather balloon near Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947". To fulfill the Air
Force portion of this review, addressees, as applicable, are requested to:
(a) identify pertinent directives concerning records retention and disposition;
(b) identify pertinent directives concerning reporting air vehicle crashes,
investigations, and wreckage/debris retention and disposition;
(c) identify~ records (unclassified or classified) related to air vehicle (aircraft,
lighter-than-aircraft, rocket/missile, or other) impacts or crashes in New
Mexico from 20 June to 31 July 1947; identify record groups and/or other
indexes associated with these records for further review; and
(d) provide copies of pertinent directives (including any changes of policies on
retention and disposition) and records (i.e., item c above) to SAF/AAZ, 1720
Air Force Pentagon, Washington DC 20330-1720.
Please provide your responses (interim or final) by 14 Mar 94. Contact Col
Weaver or Lt Col Butler at DSN 223-2013n or commercial (703) 693-2013n if there are
any questions.
2 Attachments:
1. 23 Feb 94 DoD/IG Memo w/encl
2. GAO Issue/Scope/Approach
DISTRIBUTION:
SAF/AAI
SAF/AQL
AF/SE
AF/HO
AF/IN
AF/XOW
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