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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.
“Headquarters”9 pages
r TSNAD-2B/ACL:eec 24 .5ept ember 1947 TSNAD-2B SUBJECT: "Fl ying Dis c" TO: Commanding General A.rm::! Air Forces Washington 25, D. C, ATTN: A.C/AS-2 Major Gere ral George McDom ld l . In compliance with Gener al McDonald's tel ephone conversa tion, t his date, t o Col onel H. M. McCoy, T-2, Hq. AMC, attached herewith 1s a copy of a draWing entitled, "Loedding Flying Dis c", des ignated LD-2. Because of patent rigbts invol ved, it is reques ted that a record be kept of all persons reviewing this drawing by witnessing with signatures and dates directly on the drawing, 2. Thi s drawing should be returned to t his offi ce when it has served its purpose so that it can be turned over to the Patent Office Hq. Al(C for off:i,,9ial record. ../) • ~ ~ ~ ~ 1 • ,- /\ 1-I ,.. ' I -uvr~ ...~ / , • '"' 3. I nclosed herewith is al so a report prepared by t he Royal Aircr~f t Est ablishment, Technical Note, AERO 1703, which describes the lforte~ess aircraft_ '!be follo,ing references are invited whic1i'"'I's""considered sibrnificant in relating the Horten brothers per spective thinking and accomplishments toward the alleged "Flying ucer" case: a. Page 5, Paragrapli 4 and 6. b. Page 6, Paragraph lam 7. c. Page 26, Paragrai;h 3 and 10. d. Page 27, Paragraph 12. e. Page 2g, Paragr,phs 1 t hrough 5. f. Page 54, Photograph of Horten "Parabola". U-39942 COPY
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.