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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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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.