30 December 1947

SUBJECT: Flying Discs

1. Reference is made to three inclosures, memoranda from your office to this headquarters, subject as above.

2. It is Air Force policy not to ignore reports of sightings and phenomena in the atmosphere but to recognize that part of its mission is to collect, collate, evaluate and act on information of this nature.

3. In implementing this policy, it is desired that the Air Material Command set up a project whose purpose is to collect, collate, evaluate and distribute to interested government agencies and contractors all information concerning sightings and phenomena in the atmosphere which can be construed to be of concern to the national security. It is desired that appropriate recommendations be forwarded to this Headquarters, wherever action is indicated which falls outside the field of the Air Material Command.

4. It is suggested that the activities of this project include the preparation and distribution of an initial report, as recommended in Inclosure 1, and that subsequent reports be issued on a quarterly basis. Supplementary reports should be issued at more frequent intervals should the need for same be indicated. This project is assigned priority 2A, with a security classification of "restricted" and Code Name of "SIGN". Where data of a classification higher than restricted is handled by the project such data should be classified accordingly. A complete interchange of data should be effected as recommended in Inclosure 1.

BY COMMAND OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF:
L. C. CRAIGIE
Major General, U.S.Air Force
Director of Research and Development
Office, Deputy Chief of Staff, Material

4 Incls

1. Memo dtd 23 Sept '47 from AMC to AC/AS-2 (Gen Schulgen)

2. Memo dtd 24 Sept '47 from AMC to AC/AS-2 (Gen McDonald)

3. Memo dtd 19 Dec '47 to Gen Craigie

4. R&R from Dir of Intell. w/2 Dools