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Twining Memo — AMC Opinion on 'Flying Discs'
- Source label
- U.S. Air Force
- Catalog date
- 1947-09-23
- Record type
Record summary
Lt. Gen. Nathan F. Twining's classified memorandum to Brig. Gen. George Schulgen stating that 'the phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious.' One of the earliest official acknowledgments of the UFO problem inside the U.S. military.
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Source and citation
Record ID: cia-twining-memo-1947
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/historical-collections/ufos-fact-or-fiction