DOW-UAP-D105, U.S. Air Force Flying Discs File, 1952
This file is an archival collection of U.S. Air Force Director of Intelligence records relating to reported “flying disc” incidents during the period from September through December 1952. Drawn from multiple governmental and non-governmental sources, it compiles a wide range...
Source details
- Media type
- document
- Archive path
- Release_6/DOW-UAP-D105_US-Air-Force-Flying-Discs-File-September-December-1952.pdf
- Source agency
- Department of War
- Event date
- September - December 1952
- Location
- Various
- Release date
- 9/18/26
- Last updated
- 2026-09-17
- Source file
- Open source file
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- C112 Release 6 Companion Map and Reading Guide
Source-anchored Release 6 analysis with explicit evidence boundaries and linked follow-up tests.
Open analysis in viewer - C113 Tremonton Film Provenance and Competing Assessments
Release 6 makes Tremonton a comparison of conflicting assessments and film provenance, rather than a fresh independent confirmation of the dramatic kinematics in Release 5. The Navy analysis and later Air Force bird interpretation belong in the same case...
Open analysis in viewer - C114 Ruppelt Briefing and the 1952 Evidence Problem
Ruppelt's briefing is unusually valuable because the same speaker presents striking radar reports and explains why they were not yet physically secure. Release 6 preserves an argument for better data collection, not an announcement that the unexplained...
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