GovernmentWright-Patterson AFB, OH

Twining memo calls flying discs 'something real'

Portrait photograph of Lt. Gen. Nathan F. Twining in uniform
Lt. Gen. Nathan Twining, who wrote the September 1947 memo U.S. Air Force, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Lt. Gen. Nathan Twining, head of Air Materiel Command at Wright Field, wrote to Army Air Forces headquarters that the disc reports described something real, not imagined, and urged a classified, prioritized study. That study began months later as Project Sign.

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Sources

  1. OfficialA Die-Hard Issue: CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90 (Gerald K. Haines, Studies in Intelligence)CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence / 1997
  2. OtherScientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects (Condon Report), Appendix R: Letter from General N. F. Twining to Commanding General, Army Air Forces, 23 September 1947University of Colorado for the U.S. Air Force (copy hosted by Project 1947 / Sign Historical Group) / 1969

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