18_100754_ General 1946-7_Vol_2

Drawn from the earliest wave of postwar disc sightings, these memos show the U.S. Army Air Forces treating flying saucer reports as a legitimate operational concern — not a curiosity to be dismissed. The Air Materiel Command's involvement is significant: this was the technical and intelligence arm responsible for analyzing foreign aircraft and advanced technology, which says something about how seriously the phenomenon was being taken at the institutional level.