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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.
... .c. OP. Y lff'LL SECURI'!Y unroRMATiml PART II WINDS ALOFT REPORT (Cont' d) at 0800, surface winds, ~90 degrees, 15 miles per hour, 4000 feet, 270 degrees, 19 mil es per hour, 5000 feet, 240 degrees, 25 miles per hour, 6000 feet, 250 degrees, 22 miles per hour 7000 feet, 270 degrees, 22 miles per hour 8000 teet, 270 degrees, 31 miles per hour 9000 feet, 260 degrees, 43 miles per hour 10,000 feet, 260 degrees, 45 miles per hour 12,000 feet, 260 degrees, 42 miles per hour 14,000 feet, 260 degrees, 34 miles per hour 16,000 feet 270 degrees, 34 miles per hour 181 000 feet, 270 degrees , 33 miles per hour 20, 000 feet, 270 degrees, 36 miles per hour 25,000 feet, 260 degrees, 26 miles per hour a:t 1400 hours, same de.te, winds aloft readings were: surface winds, 230 degrees, 24 miles per hour 4000 feet, 240 degrees, 25 miles per hour 5900 feet, 250 degrees, 36 miles per hour 6000 feet, 250 degrees, 41 miles per hour 7000 feet, 250 degrees, 40 mil es per hour 8000 feet, 250 degrees, 35 miles per hour 9000 feet, 260 degrees, 28 miles per hour 101 000 teet, 260 degrees, 24 miles per hour 12,000 feet, 260 degrees, 30 miles per hour 14,000 feet, 260 degrees, 55 miles per hour 16,000 feet, 250 degrees, 54 miles per hour 18, 000 feet , 260 degrees, 36 miles per hour 20, 000 feet, 260 degrees, 34 miles per hour 25, 000 feet, 260 degrees, 39 miles per hour There were no testing devices nor Raysonde devices sent aloft between the hours of 0800 and 1400 hours, 15 August 1950. Raysonde instruments were sent aloft at 0900 and 1400 hours, 15 August 1950 by the U. S. Weather Bureau, Gore Fiel d, Great Falls, Montana. Mr. Guern further stated that there were no celestial phenomena. listed in the u. s. Weather Bureau report tor the twenty- four hour ~eriod 0800 hours, 15 August 1950, to 0800 hours, 16 August 1950. 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.