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General 1948 Vol 1

U.S. Department of War · 1948-06-15 · 28 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

  • p. 19 …information directly to that command . S • E. ANDERSON Major General, U. S. A.F. Director of…
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
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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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