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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.
r AFC AO- 10 (l~e.• , 13 0 Ct 47) INDEX: 000 .75 Clippings DATE: 28 Apr /4}3 TO: CG, Air I!iateriel Command, Wright- Patterson AFB , Dayton, Ohio FROM: Air Intelligence Requirements Division; Directorate of Intelligence SUMMARY= Clippings Service for Project 11SIGN11 ltr FILED= 380 Project INDEXER= c REMARKS: HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE CORRESPONDENCE REFERENCE FORM 8-3867, AF
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Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 28 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.