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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.
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29 September 1947
13 Oct 1947
SUBJECT: ''r lyin~ Discs"
TO: Co'Tl.~andinc Officer
Operating Location No. 16 of
731st A.~FBU {101st A.Ji.CS Sq)
l(irtland li'ield
Albuquerque, New Mexico
ATTN : C,ol. Howard .G. Bunker
1. General "Rrentno.11, duri~t, n recent visit nt Las Vesas,
wa.s cortacted b~ a J.:rs. ·adeline Gwynne Kerchant, 3ante E'o, :rei:r
liexico, w:no described 1rhat !!lay be termed .,_ novel theory concerninc
"Flyin._. tiscs".
2 . .,.ccording to her thoery, "Fl~·inE, ,.,iscs'' are being f'irod
fro~ a locality in Centrrl Mexico fro~ a laboratory which is
being operFted by the ttus~inns. She clqims thQy ure beiPg ~i~cd
at the Fnited stctes for the purpose of sighting in on importo.nt
atomic energy and aircraft iostallations.
3. General Brentnall states thnt he does not have any
further interest in o.n interrot;a.tion of !!rs. JJerchant since ,it is
not a.n engineerinc matter. Fowover • he recommends thl'lt if H:;t, nir
Mo.teriel Co•:uno.nd, 1'-2, wi:ihes to sponsor an interrot;&.tion of this
r.etura thot Col. Ho,:e.rd Bunkor sho•..1ld be cor.tacted to determine
the name o.nJ e.ddress of the colo::1el at Las Vegv s v,ho has knov;ledge
of this case. In view of Gencrcl Brentnall ' s suggestion, no
direct contact will be '!lade with l'rs. llerchant.
4. It is requested, therefore, tr~t the r ne and address of
the ~povo mer.tioned colonel be ~ade available tc this office as
soon o.s possible so that f'urther action, as deemed advjsable, can
be to.ken .
F, R 1'FJ.; CO' 'ANDING GENAA~.L:
/s/ }.~ . E . Goll
tr. ;,r . l'cCOY
Colonel, Jir Corps
' ueput;y Commandine Genernl
In~elligence (T·2}
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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.