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The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert

USAF / The Black Vault · 1995 · 882 pages · text by OCR

The Roswell Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert was published by Headquarters United States Air Force in 1995. The Black Vault distributes this copy. It reproduces the report by Col. Richard L. Weaver and the synopsis by 1st Lt. James McAndrew, both written after a General Accounting Office inquiry requested by Representative Steven Schiff. The Air Force search found no evidence of an extraterrestrial craft or crew. It concluded that the Roswell debris most likely came from NYU Flight No. 4, a Project MOGUL balloon train.

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10 March 1994

SAF/AAIQ 1610 Air Force Pentagon Washington, DC 20330-1610

MEMORANDUM FOR SAF/AAI

SAF/AAZ

IN TURN

SUBJECT: GAO Review of Records Management Procedures Dealing with Weather Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents (GAO Code 701034) - INFORMATION MEMORANDUM

Reference your memorandum, 1 March 1994, request items:

(a) Identify pertinent directives concerning records retention and disposition.

The Air Force current regulation is AFR 4-20, Volume 2, Disposition of Air Force Records, Records Disposition Schedule, dated 1 May 1992.

Earlier schedules were:

AFR 12-50 volume II, Disposition of Air Force Records, Records Disposition Standards, 30 October 1987; 31 January 1986; 14 May 1984.

AFM 12-50 Volume II, Disposition of Air Force Documentation; 1 October 1969.

AFM 181-5, Records Management, Evaluation and Disposition of Records, 1 December 1966; 1 July 1963; and 10 November 1958.

AFM 181-5, Records Management, Disposition of Records, 1 July 1956; and 1 August 1954.

AFM 181-5, Administration of Records, 1950.

(b) Identify pertinent directives concerning reporting Air vehicle crashes, investigations, and wreckage/debris retention and disposition.

AFR 110-14, Investigations of Aircraft, Missile, and Nuclear and Space Accidents (AF/JACC).

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