(10149) Tue 15 Sep 92 2:25p By: Don Allen To: All Re: File: Roswell - Twining/schulgen Letter St: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @UFGATE newsin 1.27 From: dona@bilver.uucp (Don Allen) Date: 15 Sep 92 04:03:43 GMT Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL Message-ID: <1992Sep15.040343.3970@bilver.uucp> Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,alt.conspiracy,sci.skeptic *** Forwarded from the Alabama (Bama - Odyssey ) UFO Echo *** -------------------------------------------------------------------- (3482) Sun 13 Sep 92 17:52 By: John Powell To: All Re: Roswell/Twining-Schulgen Letter St: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- @PID: QE 2.75+ [What follows is the letter from Lt. Gen. Nathan Twining, commanding the Air Materiel Command, to Brig. Gen. George Schulgen, chief of Air Force Intelligence. The format below matches the original document. This is from: _The Roswell Report: A Historical Perspective_, George M. Eberhart editor, 1991 the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies. ISBN 0-929343-59-X.] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBJECT: AMC Opinion Concerning "Flying Discs" 23 September 1947 TO: Commanding General Army Air Forces Washington 25, D. C. ATTENTION: Brig. General George Schulgen AC/AS-2 1. As requested by AC/AS-2 there is presented below the considered opinion of this command concerning the so-called "Flying Discs." This opinion is based on interrogation report data furnished by AC/AS-2 and preliminary studied by personnel of T-2 and Aircraft Laboratory, Engineer- ng Division T-3. This opinion was arrived at in a conference between personnel from the Air Institute of Technology, Intelligence T-2, Office, Chief of Engineering Division, and the Aircraft, Power Plant and Propeller Laboratories of Engineering Division T-3. 2. It is the opinion that: a. The phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious. b. There are objects probably approximately the shape of a disc, of such appreciable size as to appear to be as large as man-made aircraft. c. There is the possibility that some of the incidents may be caused by natural phenomena, such as meteors. d. The reported operating characteristics such as extreme rates of climb, maneuverability (particularly in roll), and action which must be considered evasive when sighted or contacted by friendly air- craft and radar, lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled either manually, automatically or remotely. e. The apparent common description of the objects is as follows: (1) Metallic or light reflecting surface. (2) Absence of trail, except in a few instances when the object apparently was operating under high perfor- mance conditions. (3) Circular or elliptical in shape, flat on bottom and domed on top. (4) Several reports of well kept formation flights varying from three to nine objects. (5) Normally no associated sound, except in three instance a substantial rumbling roar was noted. (6) Level flight speeds normally about 300 knots are esti- mated. f. It is possible within the present U.S. knowledge--pro- vided extensive detailed development is undertaken--to construct a piloted aircraft which has the general description of the object in sub- paragraph (e) above which would be capable of an approximate range of 700 miles at subsonic speeds. g. Any devlopments in this country along the lines indicated would be extremely expensive, time consuming and at the considerable ex- pense of current projects and therefore, if directed, should be set up in- dependently of existing projects. h. Due consideration must be given the following: - (1) The possibility that these objects are of domestic origin - the product of some high security project not known to AC/AS-2 or this Command. (2) The lack of physical evidence in the shape of crash recovered exhibits which would undeniably prove the existence of these objects. (3) The possibility that some foreign nation has a form of propulsion possibly nuclear, which is outside of our domestic knowledge. 3. It is recommended that: a. Headquarters, Army Air Forces issue a directive assigning a priority, security classification and Code Name for a detailed study of this matter to include the preparation of complete sets of all available and pertinent data which will then be made available to the Army, Navy, Atomic Energy Commission, JRDB, the Air Force Scientific Advisory Group, NACA, and the RAND and NEPA projects for comments and recommendations, with a preliminary report to be forwarded within 15 days of receipt of the data and a detailed report thereafter every 30 days as the investi- gation develops. A complete interchange of data should be effected. 4. Awaiting a specific directive AMC will continue the investi- gation within its current resources in order to more closely define the nature of the phenomenon. Detailed Essential Elements of Information will be formulated immediately for transmittal thru channels. N. F. TWINING Lieutenant General, U. S. A. Commanding. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Blue Wave/QBBS v2.10 [NR] @SEEN-BY 104/2 422 428 605 107/816 30163/100 150 @PATH: 30163/150 104/422 * Origin: *** Odyssey UFO Echo *** Cullman, Al 1-205-739-1469 (1:3607/20.0)