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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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------ C01'-TFIDENTIAL HEADQUARTERS FOURTH AIR FORCE Offico of the Assistant Chiof of Starr. A-2 Intolligence Hrunilton Fie ld. Cnli£ornia SUBJECT, Flying Disc. TOa Chief of Staff United States Air Foroo naBhington 25. D. c. ATTNt Dir ector of Intelligence · 1. The attached photographs were forwarded to this office ya very roliable sourc~ of information, obtninod from a l!o.ry L. rren...-1728 S. W. Bidwell Avenu_e. Portland 2. Orogon. Siic>advises eae photographs were talcen eome time betTTeen November 5th nnd 12th. 1946 . in the vicinity of Jefferson, Oregon, nnd points out the formation in the photograph~ ns being objects she did not recall seeing hersolf but oho thought might possibly be flying discs . 2 . Tho objects roforrad to appear in the sky aroa of eaoh a.ooor.ipanyinr, photograph. The uniformity of tho markines would tend to indicate that the cQrtorn or f'ilm used to tnke these pictures was possibly defootive. lfo incidents of' flying discs have been reported from that vicinity on or about the inclusive dates named above • 3. llrs. lierren baa requested the ret:irn of the negatiTea. If desired. this office will obtain the negatives and forward them at your request. DONALD L. SPRIRGER 3 I nclat Lt. Colonel, USAF Photograph, . AC of' s. A-2 < C~T\IFIDEN'f AL
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