Air Materiel Command Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, 1947-1948

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AFOIR-CO/Lt. Col Garrett/lwd/4544

11 Feb 48

12 Feb 48

1.2 FEB 1949

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12 FEB 1949

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Lt. Col Garrett/lwd/4544

Flying Discs

Director of Plans and Operations

Director of Intelligence

1. By letter from this Headquarters, dated 30 December 1947 with subject as above, the Commanding General, Air Materiel Command is instructed to "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".

2. The Commanding General, Air Materiel Command feels that the responsibility assigned to him for collecting and developing information and intelligence on the "flying discs" should be complemented by a requirement that all Air Force installations in the United States and Alaska provide a minimum of one each fighter or night interceptor type aircraft, with necessary crews, on a continuous alert basis. These aircraft should be equipped with gun camera, and such armament as deemed advisable, in order to secure photographs necessary to the obtainment of all possible data on any reported and sighted unusual phenomena, of the "flying disc" type, in the atmosphere.

3. It is envisaged that each Air Force installation maintaining aircraft on an alert basis for this purpose would investigate all unusual flying objects reported from any source in any area over which it has cognizance. Such a program would obviously require a detailed Standard Operating Procedure, in the preparation of which Air Materiel Command should cooperate.

4. Your comments and/or concurrence are requested.

C. P. CABELL

Brigadier General, U.S.A.F.

Chief, Air Intel. Req. Div.

Directorate of Intelligence

320.2

Air Materiel Command

413.53

Photographer Equipment

452.1

Intercept Aircraft

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