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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.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY AIR FORCES ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET TALLY CJ (1 QNO. FILE NO. SUBJECT : Flying Discs Director of Plans and Operations DATE 12 FEB 1948 COMMENT ..No . 1 Lt. Col Garrett1/l.,\ii/-+4,..,5..,.44-.--Director of IntelligenceFROM : 1. By letter fran this Headquarters, dated 30 December 1947 \dth subject as above, the Canmanding General, Air liateriel Command is instructed to 11 set up a project whose purpose is to collect, collate, evaluate and distribute to interested government agencies and contractors all information concerning si ght ings and phenanena in the atmosphere which can be construed to be of concern to the national security". 2. The Commanding General, hir Materiel Command feels that the responsibility assigned to him for collecting and developing i nformation and intelligence on the 11 flying dis cs II should be complemented by a ·requirement that all Air Force installa tions in the United states and Alaska provi de a minimum of one each f i ghter or night interceptor type aircraft, with necessary crews, on a continuous alert basis, These aircraft should be equipped with gun camera, and such annament as deemed advi .sable, in order to secure photographs necessary to the obtairment of all possible data on arry reported and sighted unusual phenanena, of the "flying disc" type, i n the atmosphere. 3. It is envi saged that each Ai r For ce installati on maintaining aircraft on an al ert basis for this purpose would i nvestigate all unusual fzy i ng objecte reported fran any source in any area over which it has cognizance. Such a program would obviously require a detailed Standar d Operating Procedure, in the preparation of which Air Materiel COOlllla.nd should cooperate. 4. Your comments and/or concurrence are r~quested. C. P. CABELL Brigadie~ General, U. S.A.F. Chief , Air Int el. Req. Div. D1reotorat e of Int el ligenao . ' ...
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