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In July 1995 the U.S. General Accounting Office issued report GAO/NSIAD-95-187 to Representative Steven H. Schiff on its search for government records about the 1947 crash near Roswell, New Mexico. GAO found that some Roswell Army Air Field records, including outgoing messages from 1946 to 1949, had been destroyed with no stated authority. Only two 1947 records turned up: a 509th Bomb Group history and an FBI teletype. Both describe the recovered object as a radar-tracking or weather balloon.
B-262046 Table 1: Locations Visited and Records Reviewed Locations visited Records reviewed National Archives, Washington, D.C. Air Force papers on unidentified flying objects Army Counterintelligence Corps historical files, 1947-49 National Archives II, College Park, Md. Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 National Security Council meeting minutes, 1947-48 National Archives, National Record Center, Suitland, Md. Army Inspector General reports, 1947-58 Army staff intelligence correspondence, 1947-56 Headquarters Army Air Force message traffic, 1947-54 Army Air Force and Air Materiel Command (Wright Field) research and development files, 1947-50 National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo. Morning reports for RAAF units, July 1947 Eighth Air Force messages, 1947-50 Eighth Air Force correspondence, 1947-51 Eighth Air Force weekly activity summaries, July 1947 Service records of key personnel assigned to RAAF, 1947 Project Signa investigative reports, 1948 Army Adjutant General correspondence, 1947-49 Missile test firing reports at White Sands, N. Mex., 1947-54 Department of the Air Force, Washington, D.C. Current and past records management regulations Report of Air Force Research Regarding the Roswell Incident, July 1994 Department of the Army, Washington, D.C. Current and past records management regulations Department of the Navy, Washington, D.C. Air accident reports, July 1947 Air Force Safety Agency, Kirtland Air Force Base, N. Mex. Air accident reports, July 1947 Air Force History Support Office, Bolling Air Force Base, Washington, D.C. 509th Bomb Group and RAAF monthly histories, July and August 1947 National Security Agency, Fort Meade, Md. FOIA records, Citizens Against UFO Secrecy Military History Institute, Army War College, Carlisle, Pa. Army Counterintelligence Corps reports, 1947 Army Central Security Facility, Fort Meade, Md. Army Counterintelligence Corps reports, 1947 Central Intelligence Agency, Langley, Va. Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects (Robertson Panel) report FOIA records, Ground Saucer Watch, Inc. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D.C. FOIA records on unidentified flying objects National Atomic Museum, Kirtland Air Force Base, N. Mex. 509th Bomb Group historical information, 1947 RAAF base newspaper Atomic Blast, July and August 1947 aProject Sign was the predecessor to Project Blue Book. Our search of government records was complicated by the fact that some records we wanted to review were missing and there was not always an explanation. Further, the records management regulations for the retention and disposition of records were unclear or changing during the period we reviewed. GAO/NSIAD-95-187 Government RecordsPage 7
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