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GAO report on Roswell records
At Rep. Steven Schiff's request, the General Accounting Office searched for government records on the 1947 Roswell event.
1995 CE · 38.90, -77.02 · status: official
The account
Its July 1995 report found that some Roswell Army Air Field administrative records and outgoing messages from the period had been destroyed long before, without proper authority recorded. It found nothing supporting a recovered spacecraft.
The sceptical view
The missing records are consistent with routine disposal of the period, though ufologists read them as suspicious.
Connections in the atlas
- GAO report on Roswell records
- ? What crashed at Roswell in 1947?
- Air Force Roswell reports (1994, 1997)
- Roswell incident