18_6369445_General_1948_Vol_1

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY AIR FORCES
ROUTING
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RECORD SHEET
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SUBJECT : Flying Discs
Director of Plans and Operations
DATE 12 FEB 1948
COMMENT ..No . 1
Lt. Col Garrett1/l.,\ii/-+4,..,5..,.44-.-­
Director of Intelligence
FROM:
1.
By letter fran this Headquarters, dated 30 December 1947 \dth subject
as above, the Canmanding General, Air liateriel Command is instructed to
11set up
a project whose purpose is to collect, collate, evaluate and distribute to
interested government agencies and contractors all information concerning si ght­
ings and phenanena in the atmosphere which can be construed to be of concern to
the national security".
2.
The Commanding General, hir Materiel Command feels that the responsibility
assigned to him for collecting and developing i nformation and intelligence on the
11 flying discs II should be complemented by a ·requirement that all Air Force installa­
tions in the United states and Alaska provide a minimum of one each f i ghter or
night interceptor type aircraft, with necessary crews, on a continuous alert basis,
These aircraft should be equipped with gun camera, and such annament as deemed
advi .sable, in order to secure photographs necessary to the obtairment of all
possible data on arry reported and sighted unusual phenanena, of the "flying disc"
type, i n the atmosphere.
3. It is envi saged that each Ai r For ce installati on maintaining aircraft on
an al ert basis for this purpose would i nvestigate all unusual fzyi ng objecte
reported fran any source in any area over which it has cognizance. Such a program
would obviously require a detailed Standar d Operating Procedure, in the preparation
of which Air Materiel COOlllla.nd should cooperate.
4. Your comments and/or concurrence are r~quested.
C. P. CABELL
Brigadie~ General, U. S.A.F.
Chief, Air Intel. Req. Div.
D1reotorat e of Int el ligenao
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