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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.
B-262046 Table 1: Locations Visited and Records Reviewed Locations visited National Archives, Washington, D.C. National Archives II, College Park, Md. National Archives, National Record Center, Suitland, Md. National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo. Department of the Air Force, Washington, D.C. Department of the Army, Washington, D.C. Department of the Navy, Washington, or.- Air Force Safety Agency, Kirtland Air Force Base, N. Mex. Air Force History Support Office, Bolling Air Force Base. Washington, D.C. National Security Agency, Fort Meade, Md. Military History Institute, Army War College, Carlisle, Pa. Army Central Security Facility, r=crt Meade, Md. Central Intelligence Agency, Langley, Va. rederal Bureau of Investigation, Washington. D.C. National Atomic Museum, Kirtland Air Force Sase, N. Mex. Records reviewed Air Force papers on unidentified flying objects Army Counterintelligence Corps historical files, 1947-49 Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 National Security Council meeting minutes, 1947-48 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 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 19~7 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 Current and past records management regulations Report of Air Force Research Regarding the Roswell Incident, July 1994 Current and past records management regulations Air accident reports, July 1947 Air accident reports, July 1947 509th Bomb Group and RAAF monthly histories, Ju:y and August 1947 FOIA records, Citizens Against UFO Secrecy Army Counterintelligence Corps reports, 1947 Army Counterinte!ligence Corps reports, 1947 Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects (Robertson Panel) report FOIA records, Ground Saucer Watch, Inc. FOIA records on unidentified flying objects 509th Bomb Group historical information, 1947 RAAF base newsoacer Atomic Blast. July and August 1947 •Project Sign was the predecessor to ?roject Blue Sook. 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. Page7 GAO/NSIAD-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.