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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 2500TH AIR BASE WING MITCHEL AIR FORCE BASE NEW YORK BO 10 DEC 1952 SUBJECT: Report of Unidentified Celestial Object THRU: Commanding General First Air Force Mitchel Air Force Base, New York TO: Air Technical Intelligence Center Wright Patterson Air Force Base Dayton, Ohio ATTN: AT1AA-2C 471. 6 In accordance with AF Regulation 200-5, the attached Report of Unidentified Celestial Object is submitted. FOR THE COMMANDING OFFICER: 1 Incl: Rpt of Unidentified Celestial Obj w/attachments PAUL E. MODERMOTT, JRJ Major, USAF Adjutant OPS 000.92 (10 Dec 52) 1st Ind 1 5 DEC 1952 MQ FIRST AIR FORCE, Mitchel Air Force Base, New York TO: Commanding General, Continental Air Command, Mitchel AFB, N. Y. 1 Incl: n/c C 11 UH 8:5a L. M. HOWIE 2nd Lt. USAF Asst Adj Gen SECURITY INFORMATION RESTRICTED 1651
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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.