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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.
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1612 South Cameron Street Harr::.sburb, Pe nns~ lvania Hef.>ol't of J1Flying Jiscs 11 Chief of ~taff United States Air Force 1vashington 25, 0 . C. . R.':rft~ : Director of Intelligence, rtequiraments Division In canpliance with paragrc;.ph l a , ,.DC Letter 45- 5, 25 i...arch WD ...,~l:.F, JT : TG: 1. 1948, the' following information relative to II Flying uiscs" is hereby subllitted. -The attached report was r e ceived this Headquarters Z1 klay 1948, £rem ;;,pecial ttgent, D. K. b~own, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Cleve l and, ei-i.io. 'I'his Headquarters has no further information and is not initiating any investigation in accor dance wit h par agraph 2, AUC Ltr , 45-5 , .t1.ny additional information received by this headquarters will be :immediately forHarded to your Headquarters . Copies of report hav.e been forwarded to t!q . nir ....at eriel Corun.and and hq . n.ir Def~nse Command as directed in above mentioned directive . a. Location and t:iine of s i ghting - Hobson , ~hio; night of 8 Lay 48 . b . 11eath er .at the time - unknown by this Hq . c . l~ames , occupations , and addresses of v,itnesses - ilddresses oen uu;)e, New :lork ventral "yste1.. Ca r l.nspector unknown. ~arl rt.oush u u II n " oob .,hite , 'Yard Clerk, u . Y. 1;. C • .tC Hite, 1,..atrolman, r•. ~ . <., . 1:. d . t-'hotogra.iJhS of objects , if available - unJmo.-n t bis Hq , e . &ketches of obj iacts configuration - unfcnown this hq , ~ f . 0bjects sighted : (1) Number - not known tbis l•eadquarters (i) ~hape - round (3) ...ize - appeared t o be nine inches in d:iarneter from ground level.
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