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DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE 
WASHINGTON OC 20330-1000 
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF TilE AIR FORCE 
FROM: 
SAF/AAZ 
1720 Air Force Pentagon 
Washington, DC 20330-1720 
SUBJECT: Report of Air Force Research Regarding the "Roswell Incident" 
JUL 2 7 19~·M 
Attached is a report prepared in support of a General Accounting Office (GAO) audit that 
is seeking to identify information concerning the "Roswell Incident." The report documents the 
considerable effort expended by numerous Air Force offices and personnel in this matter. 
The Air Force efforts did not identify any indication that the "Ro…

REPORT OF AIR FORCE RESEARCH REGARDING THE "ROSWELL INCIDENT" | JULY 1994

REPORT OF AIR FORCE RESEARCH REGARDING 
THE 
11ROSWELL INCIDENT" 
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 
The "Roswell Incident" refers to an event that supposedly happened in July, 1947, 
wherein the Army Air Forces (AAF) allegedly recovered remains of a crashed 
"flying disc" near Roswell, New Mexico. In February, 1994, the General Account-
ing Office (GAO), acting on the request of a New Mexico Congressman, initiated 
an audit to attempt to locate records of such an incident and to determine if 
records regarding it were properly handled. Although the GAO effort was to look 
at a number of government agencies, …

INTRODUCTION 
Air Force involvement in the alleged UFO-related incident popularly known as 
the "Roswell Incident" began as the result of a January 14;-1994, Washington Post 
article (Atch 1) which announced Congressman Steven Schiff's intent to initiate 
a GAO effort to resolve this controversial matter. Having previously been 
involved in numerous Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Congressional 
requests on "unusual aircraft," to include Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), The 
Director, Security and Special Program Oversight, Office of the Secretary of the 
Air Force (SAF I AAZ), believ…

USAF in September, 1947, the USAF inh~ted equipment, personnel, records, 
policies, and procedures from the AAF. In this particular case, the Air Force also 
inherited the allegation that it had "covered up" the "Roswell Incident" and has 
continued to do so fo! the next 47 years. 
Within the Air Force, the Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary 
of the Air Force (SAF I AA) is responsible both for information management 
procedures (SAF I AAI) and security policy and oversight (SAF I AAZ). Because of 
this organization, SAF I AA was the logical entity to assist the GAO in its …

(although some researchers claim there were as many as·soo sightings during that 
period). Interestingly, the "Roswell Incident" was not considered one of these 
1947 events until the 1978-1980 time frame. There is no dispute, however, that 
something happened near Roswell in July, 1947, since it was reported in a number 
of contemporary newspaper articles] the most famous of which were the July 8 
and July 9 editions of the Roswell Daily Record. The July 8 edition reported "RAAF 
Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch In Roswell Region," while the next day's 
edition reported, "Ramey Empties Roswell…

some tape with flowers printed upon it had been used in the 
construction. No string or wire were to be found but there were 
some eyelets in the paper to indicate that some sort of attachment 
may have b~ used. Brazel said that he had previously found two 
weather balloons on the ranch, but_that what he found this time did 
not in any way resemble either of these. 
EVOLUTION OF THE EVENT FROM 1947 TO THE PRESENT 
General Ramey's press· conference and rancher Brazel's statement effectively 
ended this as a UFO-related matter until 1978, although some UFO researchers 
argue that there were seve…

example, it was originally reported that there was o~y recovery of debris from 
one site. This has since grown from a minimal amount of debris recovered from 
a small area to airplane loads of debris from multiple huge "debris fields." 
Likewise, the relatively simple_ description of sticks, p_aper, tape and tinfoil has 
since grown to exotic metals with hieroglyphics and fiber optic-like materials. 
Most versions now claim that there were two crash sites where debris was 
recovered, and at the second site, alleged bodies of extraterrestrial aliens were 
supposedly retrieved. The number of the…