Documents / Official release
This is a Headquarters Continental Air Command Air Adjutant General central file, number 471.6 ("Guided Missiles"), opened 1 July 1952. It holds transmittal letters and endorsements for UFO reports sent to the Air Technical Intelligence Center and the Director of Intelligence. They include a 10 December 1952 Report of Unidentified Celestial Object from the 2500th Air Base Wing at Mitchel AFB, a July 1952 report from a Long Beach, California squadron, and a letter from Russell E. Smith of Dallas, Texas.
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# HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH AIR FORCE Robins Air Force Base, Georgia O&T 452.03 SUBJECT: Report of Unidentifiable Object 13 JUL 1952 TO: Commanding General Continental Air Command Mitchel Air Force Base New York Forwarded herewith is a report received by this headquarters from Mr. Russell E. Smith, Dallas, Texas. FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL: JAMES N. LA ROCHE MAJOR, USAF ASST AIR ADJ GEN 1 Incl Ltr-Smith 18 Jun 52 2nd L72.G (3 July 52) 2nd Xnd NO CONFIDENTIAL AIR COMMAND, Mitchell Air Force Base, New York 20: Director of Intelligence, Headquarters USAP, Washington 25, D.C. 1 Inc1 n/o Maj R. D. Thresher/1sb/1126-10 July 52.
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 14 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.