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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.
Hee.dquartere 'AIR :iATERIEL C~D TSNAD-2B/\CL/a.'llc ,1right Field, Dayton, Ohio 13 Oct 1947 SUBJECT: ''Flying Di sea" TO: Chief of St~ff United States Air ~o rce ~ashircton 25, D, c, ATn1 : AC/AS-2 Lt Col George Garrett 1, !ttached copies of communications are self-explanatory end indicate action taven to obtain additional information regarding subject. Assistance shown from Lt Col Herbert c. Gee was with reference to the social standing and character of t'rs. tJerchant to determine justification for further investigation of her theories . 2 . In view of Lt Col Gee ' s transfer to ,fashington, D. c . ., it is suggested that a representative from Headouarters , AC/aS- 2 con tact and interview him. 3 . General Brentnall stated that Mrs . Merchant was extr emely talkative and seemed quite intent on promoting a personal enterprise inste~d of cooperating to help solve an intelligence problem . 4, Co, nents and sugt:;estions, therefore, regardin6 further action to interrogate 1!rs . Merc~ant would be appreciated in order to close this case as soon as possible. FOR T£IB co~~ff~DING GENER.AL: • /s/ " . R. Clingernan, Col., A. C. for 2 Incls H. r.~. 1rcDOY 1. Cy 11 C, T-2 .i..tr, 9/29/47, Col onel, :ir Corps "Flyinr; Discs'' Deputy CoMmanding CTeneral 2. Cy 1st Ind , 10/2/47, fr Intellirence (r-2) Fq. Kirtland Field, lbuquerque, New~exico C 0p y
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.