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This 1948 file from U.S. Air Force headquarters holds correspondence on reporting "flying discs." It includes a February 1948 policy directing all sightings to Air Materiel Command for Project SIGN, along with a rejected proposal to keep fighter aircraft on continuous alert. It also contains forwarded reports: an FBI account of a phosphorescent round object seen at Hobson, Ohio, on 8 May 1948, and objects seen falling near Bakersfield, California, in March 1948. Other items cover Horten brothers flying wing material.
From the source: Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: 6/15/48, N/A. NARA Record Group 18, catalogue id 6369445. This file contains memorandums, correspondence, and forms related to the reporting of information on flying discs and investigations into sightings.
AFOIR-00/Lt . Col. Garrett/jh/4544 2 Apr 48 \ AFOIR-00-5 DUBJECT: Flying Dines TO : Com.T.andin! Goneral Air liateriel Command r.rigbt-Patterson Air Force Baao Dayton, Ohio ATTN: l!CI Forwarded for your information. 7:t!O OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF• l Incl ROBERT TAYLOR 3rd Ltr frm CSOID, 25 Var Colonel, U.9AF (dup) Chief, Collection Branch Air Intelligence ~e,1uir~.ent:> Divieion Directorate or Intelligenco l)x; Reference: DF frm Hq USAF, Comment No. 1 to CSGIO dtd 27 Feb 48. DF frm CSGID, Co11DD.ent No. 2, to Hq USAF, dtd 25 Mar 48. I f . .OFFICE SYMBOL GRADE ANO SURNAME OF COORDINATING OFFICERS 1. AF0IR-C0 Col. Tay Lt. Col. 2. 3. 4. s. ~ u. 1. GOVtlNMUIT "'•Tue._. r,,ce:
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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.