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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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HEADQUARTERS
' AIR MATERIEL COMMAND
IN REPL~Y-DRESS BOTH TSNAD-2B/ACL/QlllbCOMIAUNIC QN AND EN-
VELOPE ATTENTION OF
FOLLO NG OFFIC~ MBQL: WRIGHT FIELD, DAYTON, OHIO
TSNAD- 2B 18 NOV 1947
SUBJECT: Flying Discs 1, -- 1 tf-S-
TO: Chier of Staff
United States Air Force
Washington 25, D. c.
ATTENTION; Offi ce. Directer 0£ Intel ligence
Lt Col onel George Garrett, Jr.
1. The inclosed newspaper clippings are submitted fer your informa.
t i on and comment. The incident reported in Seattle appeared in the " Dayton
on 12 November 1947, and should be followed up if possibl e. •
2 . The story by Lionel Shapi ro r egarding wa.r weapons developed i n
Spain evidently was printed in a number of leading newspapers throughout r-....
the country. The significance of this article will be dependent upon cer- '-._;.
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t~in essenti a l e l ements for such alleged important devel opments, such-as
funds, m.a.terials, experimental t esting faci lities, and technological
" Jcnow- howll. The latter is supposed to be suppUed by German scientists.
The German scientists a.t this Hq indicate that no i mportant scientists
from Germany are worlci.ng in Spain, and those mentioned in this article
are not lalown to them.
" ;; . If possible, th,re:t'ore . &n. e:t'tort should be made to obta.in names, ~\
qual ifications, or any ini'ormation that might help to identify the alleged \' 1
German scientists working in Spain. ~
4. A brief statement was nads in a recent intelligence report .from JBq USAF, AC/AS-2, reg&rding a f lying diso incident in Al aska in September.
Tb; close range sighting reported should render a mor e detailed observati n
than what was reported, which also suggests a foll~-up .
s. It is .further requested that this office be advised as to progresa ~~
being m,ade on the plot ting of all f l ying disc i ncidents to date, particu-
larly in North America. It was understood that Dr. Carroll was goint to
~•the ,e incidents, but no further word was received regardi"l: this 0£-
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S Jr:_ .JL~ i{b I.... 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.