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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.
SECR ET Basic Ltr fr CG, AMC, i1F to CG, AAF, Wash. D.C. subj 11.AMC Opinion Con cerning "Flying Discs" gation develops. A complete :interchange of data should be effected. 4. Awaiting a specific directive AMC will contimle the investi gation within its current resources in order to more closely define the nature of the phenomenon. Detailed Essential EleIOOnt s of Infarrration will be formulated immediatezy for transmittal thru channels • . • F. 'IWINillG Lieutenant General, u.s.A. Comrratrill€ tJ-39552
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.