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This is a 28 July 1995 report from the US General Accounting Office to Representative Steven H. Schiff about government records on the July 1947 crash near Roswell, New Mexico. It is filed with a Clinton Library NSC routing record. GAO found only two 1947 records: a 509th Bomb Group and RAAF history and an FBI teletype. Both describe the object as a radar-tracking or weather balloon. The report also notes that some RAAF administrative records and outgoing messages were destroyed without any stated authority.
Appendix I Combined ltistory for July 1947 'ft:o ot.;.r threo brlerl.nr;........ t.'lo" .. ,.lIbh .......0 "lye.. to tho .11' aDei a .1mu.14ted lrio!1Dg to a lar,~ r;roup 0 rAil' SCOU.tl ..err.....nt! "", a.ll ot the trao!,s in ::.. w lI.."ioc \;hi=!> .... t;hoa on l~ Jul; 1947. S.~eral small projoctu wer. oompleted duria, tho mon~ Inclu~ine 11r;n.e on all tit. ofrtoe doorll, a '0,,1111111& dirootor," and. a world o1tuatl.on map whioh ia maintained on a da7·to·~by basil. ~e Hi.torical Section ot S-2 hall b...n I ...ioualy handioapped by th .. 1'lo.h .... r"porte.! to be in pos.easion ot the li09th Bolllb Group. !he object turlled o ..t to be a rada.r traoking balloon. '!he Ibaln project oC the month _. "'aking all arrallGOIIIonto tor a a"coe•• tul .lir fOroo Day. ~t. Colollel olivoI' Larargt, All' aeserve Corp•• at Santa Pe, lIIa.de arranr;amenta for Coload Blanohard to vhit tlte Oo"ornor ot lie.. lIed co and a,k him to dto are Air !broe 0111 in lift )!oxico 011 D3taICTBD lit Page 13 GAO/NSlAD-9G·187 Government Records
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 26 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.