PURSUE Release 06 record DOW-UAP-D105, released as “US Air Force Flying Discs File September December 1952”: the 253-page working file of Headquarters USAF office AFOIN-2A2, in the Topical Division of the Directorate of Intelligence, dated 25 August to 19 December 1952 and filed under 000.9 Flying Discs. Most of it is traffic with the Air Technical Intelligence Center under the subject line “Material for Project Blue Book”, replies to members of the public, and reports forwarded from elsewhere.
It holds the Air Force end of the Navy analysis of the Tremonton Film 1952: the memorandum of 24 October 1952 to the Director of Naval Intelligence calling the movies possibly the best documentary evidence yet obtained on unidentified flying objects, six of its seven inclosures, the ten questions headed SUGGESTED POINTS FOR ANALYSIS, and a memorandum of 24 November sending a further roll, with a 1950 report on the Great Falls Film 1950 filed behind it. It also holds a staff study on revising CIRVIS reporting; the FBI Laboratory’s report on the scorched cap in the West Palm Beach Incident 1952; the investigation of the Arlington Lawn Circle 1952; papers on an object said to have fallen into the sea off Okinawa in November 1950, whose recovery the office judged impractical; and a reply of 12 November 1952 to a letter to President Truman, saying no facts had been withheld from the public and that sufficient evidence was not available to support any firm conclusions.
It holds no answer from the Navy and never names the Naval Photographic Interpretation Center that did the work, and it names no advisory panel. Much of what it refers to travelled with the originals and is not in the file. Private citizens’ names, home addresses and telephone numbers are printed in the clear; this entry repeats none of them.
Connections
PURSUE · Project Blue Book · Air Technical Intelligence Center · Tremonton Film 1952 · Great Falls Film 1950 · CIRVIS · FBI · West Palm Beach Incident 1952 · Arlington Lawn Circle 1952 · Naval Photographic Interpretation Center · Edward J. Ruppelt