Summary and Conclusions
The Historical Research Agency is primarily a repository for unit histories and supporting documents, and it has never routinely received the kind of records which might provide details of the Roswell incident. If such records survive today, they will undoubtedly be held by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), either at the Washington National Records Center (WNRC) or the Southwest Regional Depository (Fort Worth, Texas).
Recommendations
Because the records management policy of the federal government requires that obsolete office files be retired to the NARA, the WNRC and the NARA Southwest Regional Depository might be searched for files related to the Roswell incident.
AFHRA microfilm roll 33,764 indicates that the Fourth Air Force and its A-2 intelligence section apparently carried out investigations of flying disks in the western US in 1947. Research in the NARA, therefore, might reasonably include a search for surviving HQ Fourth AF and Fourth AF A-2 Section files in the NARA.
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James H. Kitchens, III
JAMES H. KITCHENS, III, PhD
Archivist
Inquiries Branch
Richard S. Rauschkolb
RICHARD S. RAUSCHKOLB
Colonel, USAF
Commander
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Appendix
1. 509 BG History, Jun/Jul 47
2. Extract from "Flying Disks 1947" w/o
3. *Ballon Operations at AFMDC, 1947-1950*, pp 1-2 w/o