General 1948 Vol 1

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.

COOil) 350. 05 StT.BJECT: Re:porting of In:f'orma.tion on
''Flying Discs"
TO: HQ, USAF, AFOm FRCM: D/I , GSUSA DATE : 25 Mar 4-RA ~ <M'1EN'I' NO. 2
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l . Action on Comment No. 1 has been complet ed by request f'or inf'orma.tion
at Inclosure l. •
2. I t 1s requested that Air Materiel Command be directed to transmit to
the Director of Intelligence, GSUSA, an infol'Illation co:py of each cannmmi ~at ion
r eceived from or sent t o commands subordinat e to the Department of the Army in
connection wit h s o-cal.l ed 11flying disc" r e:ports .
FOR THE DIRECTOR OF DT.ELLIGENCE :
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Colonel, GSC Colml, GSC
2 Incle : Chief, Intel ~euce l&.tteu11 lrou~. IO
1. Req for Info (10 c opies ) ?
2 . ICM 7 (2 copies )
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