The 1995 GAO report (NSIAD-95-187) initiated by Congressman Steven Schiff (R-NM) confirmed one of the most significant documentary findings in Roswell research. The Chief Archivist for the National Personnel Records Center documented that: (1) ALL Roswell Army Air Field administrative records from March 1945 through December 1949 were destroyed; and (2) ALL RAAF outgoing messages from October 1946 through December 1949 were destroyed. The document disposition forms “do not indicate what organization or person destroyed the records and when or under what authority the records were destroyed.” The Chief Archivist noted the records were “destroyed without entering a citation for the governing disposition authority.” Records from other Air Force bases from this same period were NOT destroyed — Roswell is an anomaly. This destruction covers the entire period surrounding the July 1947 incident. The GAO’s search for 1947 Roswell records recovered only TWO documents: a July 1947 unit history report mentioning a “flying disc” recovery, and the FBI July 8, 1947 teletype. Congressman Schiff was initially told the Roswell records were in Project Blue Book at NARA — then NARA told him Roswell wasn’t in Blue Book. He concluded he had been “stonewalled” and launched the audit. He died of cancer in 1998 before the full picture emerged.