The United States Army Air Forces and later Air Force command responsible for procurement, engineering and technical intelligence, headquartered at Wright Field and then Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. From 1947 it was the designated collecting agency for flying disc reports, and it is the institutional home of Project Sign.
AMC’s role is set by two documents. On 23 September 1947 its commanding general, Nathan F. Twining, returned the opinion that the reported phenomenon was real and not visionary or fictitious, and recommended a priority project. On 30 December 1947 a directive instructed the commanding general of AMC to set up that project. From early 1948 all Air Force installations, initially in the Zone of the Interior and Alaska and from 26 February 1948 worldwide, were to report sightings direct to AMC; the Navy, Army and Coast Guard were asked to do likewise, and commercial airlines were to be brought in through JANAP 146.
PURSUE Release 05 record DOW-UAP-D100 is the Headquarters USAF side of this traffic, a 245-page correspondence file running from September 1947 to November 1948 in which AMC is the principal correspondent. Its centrepiece is General Charles P. Cabell’s letter of 3 November 1948 and H. M. McCoy’s reply of 8 November. The file also contains AMC’s October 1948 request that RAND study the problem and its approach to the Central Intelligence Agency asking whether the objects were of domestic origin, neither of which has a recorded answer. The file’s December 1947 analysis also records that no connection was found between the Swedish Ghost Rockets and the American reports of 1947.
Connections
Project Sign · Nathan F. Twining · H. M. McCoy · General Charles P. Cabell · PURSUE · Project Blue Book · Air Intelligence Study 203 · Ghost Rockets