debris recovered from the crash.
QUERIES TO FEDERAL AGENCIES REGARDING RECORDS ON THE CRASH
We sent letters to several federal agencies asking for any government
records they might have concerning the Roswell crash. In this regard, we
contacted DoD, the National Security Council, the White House Office of
Science and Technology Policy, the CIA, the FBI, and the Department of
Energy.
The National Security Council, the White House Office of Science and
Technology Policy, and the Department of Energy responded that they had no
government records relating to the Roswell crash. (Copies of their responses
appear in app. III, IV, and V.) The FBI, DoD, and the CIA provided the
following information.
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
The FBI informed us that all FBI data regarding the crash near Roswell had
been processed under Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests previously
received by theBureau. We reviewed the FBI's FOIA material and identified
the July 8, 1947, FBI teletype message discussing the recovery near Roswell
of a high-altitude weather balloon with a radar reflector. (A copy of the
FBI's response appears in app. VI.)
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
DoD informed us that the U.S. Air Force report of July 1994, entitied
"Report of Air Force Research Regarding the Roswell Incident", represents
the extent of DoD records or information concerning the Roswell crash. The
Air Force report concluded that there was no dispute that something happened
near Roswell in July 1947 and that all available official materials
indicated the most likely source of the wreckage recovered was one of the
project MOGUL balloon trains. At the time of the Roswell crash, project
MOGUL was a highly classified U.S. effort to determine the state of Soviet
nuclear weapons