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This 1952 file of U.S. Air Force intelligence correspondence on flying objects comes from the Directorate of Intelligence at Headquarters USAF. It records the return to the Coast Guard of a negative of objects photographed at Salem Air Station on 16 July 1952, and requests to Naval Intelligence to analyze the Tremonton film by Delbert Newhouse and the Great Falls film by Nicholas Mariana. It also holds Strategic Air Command report transmittals, letters from members of the public, and an Okinawa object said to have fallen into the sea.
From the source:Release of 2026-09-18 Incident: September - December 1952, Various. This file is an archival collection of U.S. Air Force Director of Intelligence records relating to reported “flying disc” incidents during the period from September through December 1952. Drawn from multiple governmental and non-governmental sources, it compiles a wide range of material associated with reported sightings and official handling of those observations, rather than presenting a single analytical conclusion on the nature or origin of “flying discs.” The contents include correspondence, memoranda, reporting forms, case summaries, distribution and routing material, and other administrative or intelligence-related documentation tied to flying-disc reporting and review during that period. Pages 26-36 of the file refer to an incident reported near Tremonton, Utah, in July 1952, in which a U.S. Navy Warrant Officer recorded film of unidentified objects that the Air Force later assessed were likely seabirds. Overall, the file is a broad documentary collection reflecting how such reports were recorded, circulated, and evaluated in late 1952.
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llr. J obil J . Phillipe 6047 &ldr.in Avenue T~e City, Calitonlia Dear ·• . Hdllipa: Tho Secretary of the U"mJ" has roterred your lotter of 29 .Augw,t 1952 to us for attention. Although we had already processed youro or Z6 Auguot to ue, we :r.oi:o~ nonetholoss, vory happy to receivo .Y(:>ur additional eommc.nts. ,e ,ould like to assure youl that tho Air Porco 1o not troatint: tho '"!l,..11'1.ng e.:iucer" situat.1.on lichtly. Ac rocently rumounccd, w G1·0 conduct.in,g a ver:-y rseriouis progrQn or :tnt.elllgcnco 1r.vootigation nnd nnalysis, e.nd o t"'1.ll continuo to gi.TC tho prol::ilan ndo tuate but not frantic attention. B7 thio :t:wo you havo co5t probably r.eeolvcd o vE>ry det.&1led questionndro from the ir Tcchnic3l Intel.l.16enco Centor 1171th o request to enter ao much tlotaU oo you ru-o ab1o t.o recall nbout tho object which you oboorvOd. Thia nhould indicate to you our enmest efforts to find a entisfoeto~y solution to tho problez:?. NO Y/R UILJ..IAU A . aDAl!S Colonel, USAF 9 Chief, Topical D1vio1on Dt";>ut,y D1~octor f.or Eoticintcw Directorate o~ Intell1genco> 005/ 0 COORDINATION: AFUlN2A2 AFUIN-2,?-
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 253 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.