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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.
B/L fr 'Iqs 1 .JtMC, ~.right Fiold. , Dayton, Ohio, File ':.'Si'AD-2B, 29 Sep 47 ,
Subj : ''Flying Dices"
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i]"EAD~UARTERS, Kirtland. Field, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2 October 1947
TO: Co!lUllandini; 0enera.l, :1.ir •!ntericl Command, lr.ight lisld, Ohio
ATTErTic~i: T-2
1. The o~ficer. referred to in Par. 3 is Lt . Col~ Horbert C. Gee,
0-19717, who v,as f'ornerly ComMD.ndine; O!'.!'icer at Los .~lamos rather than
Las Vegas, as stated. Lt. Col. Gee is now stationed in the office,
Chiai' of' ngineers, .::ivil 11orks Division, ,ashir-6ton, I) , C.
2 . There is no repl~cement for Lt. Col . Gee at Los llanos ruid no
ir.fcrmation is available to indicate that any individual in this vicinit,/
has ~ore information concerning wra. Merchant ' s theory than Brig. Gen .
Brentnall of N'C vrho personally conducted an interview with her .
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