Documents / Report
This July 1994 report from the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force (SAF/AAZ) was prepared in response to a General Accounting Office audit that Congressman Steven Schiff requested about the 1947 Roswell Incident. The report describes Air Force searches of records and interviews with people involved, including Sheridan Cavitt. It found no records of a cover-up, alien bodies or extraterrestrial materials. It concludes that the debris found near Roswell most likely came from a Project Mogul balloon that was never recovered.
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SAF/AA, {Atch 5) and was addressed to those current Air
staff elements that would be the likely repository for
any records, particularly if there was anything of an
extraordinary nature involved. This meant that the
search was not limited to unclassified materials, but
also would include records of the highest classification
and compartrnentation.
The specific Air Staff /Secretariat offices queried
included the following:
{a) SAF/AAI, Directorate of Information Management
(b) SAF/AQL, Directorate of Electronics and Special
Programs
(c) AF/SE, Air Force Safety
{d) AF/HO, Air Force Historian
{e) AF/IN, Air Force Intelligence {including Air Force
Intelligence Agency--AFIA, and the National Air
Intelligence Center, NAIC)
{f) AF/XOW, Directorate of Weather
{g) {added later) The Air Force Office of Special
Investigations {AFOSI)
In addition to the above Air Staff and Secretariat
offices, SAF/AAZ also reviewed appropriate classified
records for any tie-in to this matter. With regards to
highly classified records, it should be noted that any
programs that employ enhanced security measures or
controls are known as a Special Access Proqrams (SAPs) .
The authority for such programs comes from Executive
Order 12356 and flows from the Department of Defense to
the Services via DoD Directive 5205.7. These programs
are implemented in the Air Force by Policy Directive
16-7, and Air Force Instruction 16-701. These directives
contain detailed requirements for controlling and
reporting, in a very strict manner, all SAPS. This
includes a report from the Secretary of the Air Force to
the Secretary of Defense (and ultimately to Congress) on
all SAPs submitted for approval, and a certification
that there are no "SAP-like" programs being operated.
These reporting requirements are stipulated in public
law.
It followed then, that if the Air Force had recovered
some type of extraterrestrial spacecraft and/or bodies
and was exploiting this for scientific and technology
purposes, then such a proqram would be operated as a
SAP. SAF/AAZ, the Central Office for all Air Force SAPs,
has knowledge of, and security oversight over, all SAPs.
SAF/AAZ categorically stated that no such Special Access
Program{s) exists that pertain to extraterrestrial
spacecraft/aliens.
Likewise, the Secretary of the Air Force and the Chief
of Staff, who head the Special Program oversight
Committee which oversees all sensitive programs in the
Air Force, had no knowledge of the existence of any such
program involving, or relating to the events at Roswell
or the alleged technology that supposedly resulted
therefrom. Besides the obvious irregularity and Report, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 22 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.