342_HS1-416511228_319.1 Flying Discs 1949

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SECRET

DHP/res

26 OCT 1948

P&O/INT

SUBJECT: Reporting of Information on Flying Discs

TO:

Commanding General
Airways and Air Communication Service

Washington 25, D. C.

ATTN: AC/S, Intelligence and Security

1. The following TWX received from Headquarters, USAF is quoted for your information and necessary action:

"REFER TO THIS HQS LETTER OF SIX FEB ONE NINE FOUR EIGHT CMA SUBJ SMCLN REPORTING INFORMATION ON FLYING DISCS PD RESEARCH REVEALS GROUPS OF SIGHTINGS OCCUR AT PERIODIC INTERVALS WITH BEGINNING OF NEW INTERVAL INMINENT PD REQUEST ALL UNITS OF YOUR COMMAND BE PARTICULARLY ALERT TO REPORT SIGHTINGS OF UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL OBJECTS DIRECT TO NCIAXO DASH THREE CMA AMC CMA FASTEST PD WHERE POSSIBLE INITIATE INVESTIGATIVE ACTION WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE"

2. Paraphrase of the above message is not required when handled as secret correspondence.

3. The above referenced USAF letter of 6 February 1948 in quoted TWX is further modified to include reporting of all sightings of flying discs whether they occur within or outside the United States and Alaska.

BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL KUTER:

JAMES F. RHODES

Major, USAF

Asst Adjutant General

UNCLASSIFIED

OCT 25 1948

SECRET