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This FBI file serial 164 in 62-HQ-83894 holds several copies of Air Intelligence Requirements Memorandum Number 4, "Unconventional Aircraft," issued 15 February 1949 by the Directorate of Intelligence, Headquarters United States Air Force. Major General C. P. Cabell signed it. It sets out continuing Air Force requirements for information on unconventional aircraft and unidentified flying objects, including "Flying Discs," and tells commands and outside agencies to send reports to the Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson AFB. It also lists detailed reporting questions on sightings, observers, radar data and physical evidence.
“Office of Special Investigations”13 pages
RESTRICTED 3. Local flight schedules of commercial, private and m111tary a1rcra!t flying in vicinity at the time. (Check Canadian activity 1f close to that border.) 4. Possible releases of testing devices 1n vicinity sent aloft by Ordnance, Navy, Air Force, Army, Weather Units, Research Organizatlons or any other. 5. If object contacted earth, obtain soil samples within and without depression or spot where object landed (and then presumably departed) for purpose of making comparison of solls. 6. I! object came suffic iently near other aircraft or known objects check surfaces with Gelger counters for possible radioactivity. Make comparisons with other unaffected alrcr att objects, etc. 7. Obtain photographs (or original negatives) where available; if not, secure sketches of: a. Object. b. Surrounding terrain where observed. c . Place wher e it contacted earth (if this happened). d. Maneuvers. e. Formation 1f objects were more than two. 8. Secure s igned statement. 9. Obtain fragments or physical evidence where possible. 10. Was any radio antenna to be observed, Le., (any pr ojections or extentions that might presum ably be construed as such), c l?~C. P. CABELL Major General, USAF Director of IntelHgence, Office of Deputy Chief of Sta!f, Operations DISTRIBUTION: Commanding Generals, Major Air Commands, ZI and Overseas All United States Air Attaches Director of Central Intell1gence Special Assistant for Research and Intelllgence, Department of State Director of IntelHgence, GSUSA Chief of Naval Intelligence Commandant (INT), United States Coast Guard Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation RESTRI CT ED - 7 -
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