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y AF HQ-33 (G0 MAY.44) Sherr . : HEADQUARTERS ARMY AIR FORCES ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET SUBLET Flying Discs TO: Director of Plans and Operations pate 12 FEB 1948 L FROM: Director of Intelligence It. Col sree LY Na7E SEE l. By letter fron 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 sight— ings 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 Fi) assigned to him for collecting and developing information and intelligence on the "flying discs" should be complemented by a requirement that all Air Force installa- tions 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 obtainnent 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 fran any source in any area over which it has cognizancee Such a program would obviously require ea detailed Standard Operating Procedure, in the preparation of which Air Materiel Command should cooperate. 4. Your comments and/or concurrence are requested. 4 | iE a. oe C. P. CABELL Brigadier General, U.S.A.F. Chief, Air Intel, Req. Div. Directorate of Intelligence D-1100, AF (REY 20 WAY 4ay