18_100754_ General 1946-7_Vol_2
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SECRET Col. Cook/2497/bm AFMRS 30 December 1947 SUBJECT: Flying Discs TO: Commanding General Air Materiel Command Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio Attn: TSDIN 1. Reference is made to three inclosures, memoranda from your office to this headquarters, subject as above. 2. It is Air Force policy not to ignore reports of sightings and phenomena in the atmosphere but to recognize that part of its mission is to collect, collate, evaluate and act on information of this nature. 3. In implementing this policy, it is desired that the Air Materiel Command set up a project whose purpose is to collect, collate, evaluate and distribute to interested government agencies and contractors all information concerning sightings and phenomena in the atmosphere which can be construed to be of concern to the national security. It is desired that appropriate recommendations be forwarded to this Headquarters, wherever action is indicated which falls outside the field of the Air Materiel Command. 4. It is suggested that the activities of this project include the preparation and distribution of an initial report, as recommended in Inclosure 1, and that subsequent reports be issued on a quarterly basis. Supplementary reports should be issued at more frequent inter- vals should the need for same be indicated. This project is assigned priority 2A, with a security classification of "restricted" and Code Name of "SIGN". Where data of a classification higher than restricted is handled by the project such data should be classified accordingly. A complete interchange of data should be effected as recommended in Inclosure 1. BY COMMAND OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF: P 97084 2 JAN 1948 L. C. CRAIGIE Major General, U. S. Air Force Director of Research and Development Office, Deputy Chief of Staff, Materiel 4. Inclosure 1. Memo dtd 23 Sept '47 from AMC to AC/AS-2 (Gen Schlegel) 2. Memo dtd 24 Sept '47 from AMC to AC (Gen McDonald) 3. Memo dtd 19 Dec '47 to Gen Craigie 4. R&R from Dir of Intell./w/2 tools OFFICE SYMBOL | 2. Memo dtd 24 Sept '47 from AMC to AC (Gen McDonald) | 3. AFOIN McDonald (A=MRD) | 4. AFSPR Hutley | 5. AFOPO Wegland by Pider GRADE AND SURNAME OF COORDINATING OFFICERS | 3. Memo dtd 19 Dec '47 to Gen Craigie