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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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DECLASSIFIED t011f@:Nl\At Au-~~-/ t w s'i 2. G? 1COPY ~ tIOI ,__'}Ji____ UU.Dllt r:Aff,JJ~_u S:E~l of the DI LAl30BATORT TU LIAISOB RDJIRAI, BURElU OF IBTESTIGATIOB September 3, 1962 Directorate of Special lnTestiga.tiona !'he Inspector General Department of the Air Jore• Attenti on: Mr. Gilbert R. Le'f)' !he Pentagon Ohief, Counter Intelligence Washington, D. O. D1Tia1on J'ollowing is the report of the DI Laborato17 girlng the results ot examinations conducted on eTidence reeeiTed from 7our office. ll: Unidentified 1ly1ng Object Al.leged.17 a/ 3. F.d.gar BooTer Sighted b7 Mr. D.S. DeSVDGERS, JOBD BDG.All ROOTER, Director Yest Palm Beach, J'lorida Your Jile No. 24-186 DI J'ile llo. Emmination requested by: Addressee Lab. Bo. PC-33720 DE Reference: Letter dated 8-26- 52 Eramination requested: Chemical Analyses Specimens: Q1 Cap which Mr. DesTerger1 was wearing at the time of the alleged incident. ::USULTS Oli' EXAMINATIQ!t In answer to your specific inqui17, you are ad.need that the areas surrounding the three barned hole• in the cap were eDJDlned for m17 residue• which :m.igb.t indicate tho nature of the incendiary material causing the bu.ms, but no such residue• were found. Teat• conducted on the sweatband of Q1 indicate that the residue trom a gloving ember used to burn a hole in the cloth was easily dislodged and removed b7 handling and "roughing" the burned area. Some observations made during the examination of Q,1. ma7 be of interest to you. The major portion of the top aide of the cap bill as well as the area surrounding the yellow and black emblem or insigne and the insigne itself have been subjected to the singeing action of a flame. It ia of interest to note that the singeing on these areas is not at all uniform aa might be expected if t he cap had been subjected to a single shot of a •red blob" of a tire of some kind. The fact that the front edge of the cap bill 1a more seTerel7 scorched or singed than other portions of the cap auggesta that the singeing could not have taken place when Mr. D. S. Desvergera vas fired upon trom a poeition almost Teriioall7 above him. When t he cap is obeerTed from the front and left edge ot the 1nsigne and the fold in the blue cloth in the surrounding Enclosure - l- -£8HFl9fH1 fit~ (continued next page) SECURITY INFORMATION COPY
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.