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This U.S. Air Force file from late 1947 collects correspondence about flying discs among Air Materiel Command at Wright Field, Army Air Forces headquarters and the Fourth Air Force. It includes General N. F. Twining's 23 September 1947 opinion that the phenomenon is real and not fictitious, and a 30 December 1947 directive that Air Materiel Command set up a project to collect and evaluate reports. It also covers photographs from Jefferson, Oregon that were judged to be film defects, a theory put forward by Mrs. Merchant, and material on the Horten flying wings.
From the source: Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: 12/30/47, N/A. NARA Record Group 18, catalogue id 100754. This file contains memorandums and correspondence related to flying disc/saucer sightings and that those are a matter of concern for the Air Materiel Command.
HqAMC ~•,_ No. 1~4 (Rev It Sep 46) Wf-1,.7 JAN q 300M HEADQUARTERS NND 700188 IN IIULT AODRUS IOTM COMMUN ICATION AND EN AIR MATERIEL COMMAND VELOPE TO COMMANDING 0 ENE RA L, AIR MATER IEL COMMAND, ATTENTION TSDIN/HUM/ig/6-4100 fOLLOWINO OFFICE STMIIOL: WIICJHT FIELD, DAYTON, OHIO TSDIN DEC l 9 A.:if/1 SUBJECT: Flying Discs TO: Chief of Staff United States lir Force Washington 25, n. c. ATTENTION: Director, Research & Developnent J. Major General L. c. Craigie 1. Confirming the recent conversation of ihe undersigned nth 1.ajcr General L. c. Craigie, 9 December 1947, attached as listed below are copies of the reports from this Headquarters concerning Flying Discs . 2. Comments of Headquarters, dr Force on these letters have never been received by this Command. Conti nued and recent reports from qualified observers concerning this phenomenon sti.ll makes this matter one of concern to Headquarters , Air Mat eriel Command. Intelli gence Department of this Command i s continuing the collection and analysis of all available reports. F<R THE CObllANDING GENERAL: .. ~-~c:On Colonel, USAF Chief of Intelligence 2 Attach: cc ltr to CG, AAF, dtd. 23 .sept 47 subj " ,UC Opinion Concerning °Flying Discs11 11 cc ltr to CG, AAF, dtd 24 Sept 47 subj "Flying Discs" U-53791
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 28 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.