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This is a July 28, 1995 report from the General Accounting Office to Representative Steven H. Schiff on its search for government records about the July 1947 crash near Roswell, New Mexico. The GAO found only two records from 1947: a July 1947 history of the 509th Bomb Group and Roswell Army Air Field, and a July 8 FBI teletype. Both describe the object as a radar-tracking or weather balloon. The report also says some Roswell Army Air Field administrative records and outgoing messages were destroyed without any recorded authority.
Appendix VI Comments From the Federal Bureau of ~ Investigation 11r. Richard Davis Director Attn: Gary JC. Weeter National security .&nal)'llb General Ac:counti119 Office Wa.biJMJton, D. c. o.ar Kr. Davia: ........ D.c.Wli April 24, 1915 Thi• i• in reapome to a latter dated April 7, 1995, from Horman ;s. Rabkin, Director, Adainiatration of Ju•tice Iuu.. , General Ac:countinq Office, to Jobn J:. COllingwood, · Inspector in Cbu'V•, Of:fic:• of Public and C0ft9ruaional Affairs, FBI, regardinq vovarmaent record• c:onc8Z1lillCJ tba crash of an airborne object near Roavell, Rav JlaXJ.c:o, in July 19'7 (Coda 701034). A search of l'BI indic:e• for infor9ation relatinq to th• crash of an airborne object near RollVell, Nev Mexico, in 1947, daterained that all FBI data concernillCJ the incident ha• been proc:asaed under th• proviaiona of th• J'reedcm of Information Act (FOIA) and is available for review in our FOIA Jteadin9 :aooa. A c:opy of the doc:uaent forwarded to .. by Gary Weeter is ..anv the cloc:mlenta in tba RaadinCJ aooa. If your ataff wish•• to review the ..terial, plea•• call Kargaret Trablay, a --.Hr of ay ata:ff, at l•a•t 48 hours in advance of th• desired appointaent. Sh• can be reached on 324-!5292. Page 18 sincerely yours, ~¢~q svanson D. Carter Supervisory Special Agent Office of Public and congressional Affair• GAOINSIAD-95·187 Government Records
Report, from the nsa collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 21 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.