PURSUE Release 01: 18_100754_ General 1946-7_Vol_2

  Wright Field Disc Packet

PURSUE Release 01 lists this as row 17, a Department of War PDF titled 18_100754_ General 1946-7_Vol_2, released May 8, 2026, with an incident date of December 30, 1947 and no incident location listed.¹ The official release asset is the WAR-hosted PDF 18_100754_ general 1946-7_vol_2.pdf.²

The recovered opening page is a Headquarters Air Materiel Command memorandum from Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, dated December 19, 1947. It is marked Secret, addressed to the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, and routed to the Director of Research & Development, Major General L. C. Craigie.²

The memorandum's subject is "Flying Discs." Colonel H. M. McCoy, Chief of USAF Intelligence, forwards copies of reports from Air Materiel Command after a December 9, 1947 conversation with Craigie.² The listed attachments include a September 23, 1947 letter on Air Materiel Command opinion concerning flying discs and a September 24, 1947 letter titled "Flying Discs."²

  Air Materiel Command's Concern

This record matters because it is not merely a single sighting account. Its first page shows Air Materiel Command forwarding a packet of flying-disc reports to senior Air Force leadership and Research & Development staff in late 1947.² McCoy wrote that Air Force headquarters had not yet commented on earlier letters, while continued reports from qualified observers still made the subject a matter of concern to Air Materiel Command.² He also stated that the command's intelligence department was continuing to collect and analyze all available reports.²

  References

  References

1. war.gov ↩

2. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷