DOW-UAP-D084: US Army-Flying-Saucer-Study_1949

Plans & Operations requested an evaluation to determine whether the reports arose from natural phenomena or could be traced to a foreign power.

evaluation study was prepared at request of P&O to determine … if the various reports on this subject stemmed from natural phenomena … or if the origin could be traced definitely to the activities of a foreign power

The study described Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as continuing a special U.S. Air Force project to investigate reported unidentified flying objects.

The investigation of all incidents reported to involve unidentified flying objects during the period June 1945 to date has been conducted by a special project group of Headquarters, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.

Of roughly 210 incidents reviewed, the study said about twenty percent had been explained, mostly as weather balloons, aircraft, cosmic-ray research equipment, bolides, meteors, or Venus.

Of some 210 incidents, approximately twenty (20) per cent have been explained. The majority of these involved misidentification of synoptic weather balloons.

The study stated that it had found no tangible evidence tying any incident to a foreign nation and characterized a foreign-device explanation as remote.

To date there has been no tangible evidence which would support a theory that any incidents are attributable to activity of a foreign nation. The possibility of foreign devices would appear most remote.

A 5 April 1949 record said the submitted study indicated no foreign-nation implication among the flying-saucer cases investigated.

This study intimated that of all cases investigated there was no foreign nation implication in these flying saucers.

An April routing form directed circulation and filing in Plans & Operations and noted possible interest to Generals Maddocks, Nichols, Schuyler, and Timberman.

Circulate as indicated, then file in P&O. This may be of interest to Generals Maddocks, Nichols, Schuyler and Timberman.

A later memorandum recorded that Plans & Operations asked the Intelligence Division to evaluate the phenomenon on 24 February 1949 and received the evaluation on 7 March 1949.

P&O requested ID on 24 Feb 49 to evaluate these phenomena. On 7 Mar 49 ID forwarded the attached evaluation.

Walter Winchell’s 3 April 1949 broadcast prompted a request that the Intelligence Division verify the broadcast’s accuracy.

a result of Walter Winchell's 3 Apr 49 broadeast (summary = = [7aa@ | = Werification of the accuracy of the broadcast.