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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.
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION ( l f onv) Dept. of the Ai ~ ·Force J &Booll!>1F.lm« DISPOSITION FORM SUBJECTFILE No. Reporting of Inf'onnation on "Fl ying Discs. 11AFOIR-C0-5 TO FROM - AFOIR DATE 2 7 FEB 194A COMMENT No. 1 Plans & Collection Lt .Col. Garre~/dk/4544Branch Lt.Col• .Smith 1. It is Air Force policy not to ignore reports of s ightings and phenomena in the atmosphere, but to r ecognize t hat part of its mission is to collect, collate, evaluate, and act on information of- this nature~ 2. In Implementing this policy the Air Materiel Comnand has been designated A the Air Force agency to collect, collate, evaluate and distribute to interested 1"vernment agencies and contractors all information concerning sightings and pheno mena in the atmosphere vhich can be construed to be of concern to the national security 3. All Air Force installations within anc_l outs~d7 Zone of Interior and Alaska have been instructed to report all sightings, or information concerning sightings which comes to their attention, direct t o the Conmandirig Genercμ, Air Materiel Com mand, ~right-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, Attn: l,'l;I . 4. Air Materiel Conmand has been authorized direct contact with all Air Force installations whenever required to develop ·additional information on the flying discs. 5. It is requested that all Department of the Army installations also be instruct ed to report such occurrences directly to Air Materiel Comnand and that they be in formed that Air Y.ateriel Conmand is authorized to contact them direct when necessary in connection with such occm:-rences. 6. If possible, reports to Air Materiel C01T11na.'1d should inclnde the following information: a . Location arrl time of sighting b. ~leather at the time c. Names, occupations, and addresses of witnesses d. Photographs of objects, if available e. Object sighted: (1) Numbe r (4) Color (7) :Maneuverability (10) Exhaust trail (2) Shape (5) Speed (8) Altitude or not (3) Size ( 6) Heading (9) Sound g. General remarl<E FOR Tifr: CHIBF OF STAFF: rBISDI C. P. CAB(/.l?<-1~,c.c..~<:..,.,~- Major General, U.S.A.F. Chief, Air Intel. Req. Div. Directorate of Intelligence
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