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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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SECURI TY INFOIW.ATION Revrln 29 Aug 52 ~ (Unclassified) Unidentif'ied Flying Objects Reporting ....---:: Assistant Chief of Staf.f, Dept of the Air Force <2 - SEP 1952col. Cook/56548 G-2, Depa~ent of the Army Hq, US.AF Washingi;on 25, D. C. AFOIN ~ 1. Attached for your information and action considered appropriate is a copy of } Air Force Letter Number 200-5, dated 29 April 1952 which expresses the .Air Force in- ~ terest in unidentified !lying objects and provides for a reporting procedure. 2. To assist the Air•Force in collecting intonnation on this subject, it would e e appreciated if such data as may cane to the attention of Army personnel on unident !i.i'ied flying objects could be reported to the Air Force rapidly and substantially as ':oUtlined in paragraph Sc and 8e of attached letter. 3. Contents of attachment may- be used in any manner you desire for the issuance of instructions on the reporting of unidentified flying objects. 4. The instructions in this camnmication supersede thos: contained in AFOIN Letter dated 18 September 1950, subject, Reporting o.f Infomation on Unconventional Aircraft, with one incl.owre. FOR THE CHIEF OF ST.AFP: " • ~ •...(-~ORGE E. PERRY ( ) ~ C<llone'!., USAF ►. J ~v ~ Chlof of .ti...,~ 0 mtmt ~.Al -JiJ., -:i. Policy & Y..:m. , 1m,..nt Gr0up o'V' Directorate of Inte!ligeuce PREVIOUS COORDINATIOO VALID
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.