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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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. IIEAD" UA1\T.c,.iS TENTH :.Ill F(m.Cu RflCOKS FLLD, .:,, r M1TCJ!iIU, T"~S D 333 , 5 7 January 1948 SU'BJBCT: 11 Flying visks11 Tv: Chief of Staff United States Air Force Washington 25, D. C. A"TN : Director of ~ntelligence Ccmnading General Air Jefense Command Mitchel Field, Mew York hTTN: .t\SSt Chief of Staff, A- 2 Ccmrnanding General r'ourth ,.nny 'Ft . ~am Houston, Texas ATTN: Asst Chief of Staff, G-2 Inclosed is &um.mary of lnfonnation prepared by the Tenth hir Force hesictent ,\gent at houston, Texas covering a report of ".!"lying Disks11 received by the Fol Office at Houston, TeXas. Fort 'i'iil Cuk.JJ!DING c.,~..NEi.,~: .. /s/ ,.AYl..vtrn D. vT.C:PH.,1W 1 Incl hajor, USAf' Sum.r.;ery of Inform, Actg Asst ~'hief of vtatt, ~-2 subj: "Flying Disk" 175th aF~l:J, hllingt'on Fld, dtd 19 Dec 47 C0 • r y /
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