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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
Basic ltr, dtd 24 Sep 47, to CG, Hq AAF, Wash, subjt "Flying Disc"
g . Page 69, The Horten VI I I.
h. Pages 71 and 72, Photogra}:ils of the Horten IX Versions .
i. Page 74, Dral'ling or the "Parabolaf.
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4. A recent report f'rom the u. ;:;. Military attac~ }los cow, USSR,
dated 9 June 1947, indicates that 1800 afrcraft, directly or indirectly \
based on the Horten VIII design ( six engi ne pusher, having a l'fing spread
of 131 feet and a gross weight of approXimately thirty-three thousand
pounds) are being built for bomber squadron use. The Russian version,
however, is jet propelled, reference report whose identification No. is
v-,2291-8. XO r5
5. The T-2 r e port "German Flying \\ings Designed by Horten Brothers" ....,.
No. F-SU-1110-Hd, also inclosed her ewith, may be :n:tained tfy your office
if desired.
FOO THE COW!A'NDING GENERAL:
H. M. McCOY
Colonel, nir Corps
Deputy Commanding General
Ihtelligence (T-2)
3 Incls:
1. Dravting ]
2. RAE Tech Note, AERO 170~
3. T-2 Rpt, No. F-SU-1110-HD
u 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.