USAF / AMC general files — pre-Project Blue Book UFO investigations (1946–1948)
Air Materiel Command and Army Air Forces general files covering 1946–1948 UFO investigations conducted before Project Blue Book's formal establishment. Includes the Maury Island and Roswell-era investigative correspondence.
- Record type
- Document Release
- Primary source
- linked
- Named witnesses
- 0
- Media
- 2
This file contains memorandums, correspondence, and forms related to the reporting of information on flying discs and investigations into sightings.
**Released as part of PURSUE Release 01 (May 8, 2026).** The Department of War published the following primary-source records:
- **18_6369445_General_1948_Vol_1** (Department of War, 2048-06-15) — 28 pages.
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- **18_100754_general_1946-7_vol_2** (Agency unknown, n.d.) — 28 pages.
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*Skeleton import — comprehensive narrative analysis pending. Sources are linked above; OCR-extracted text from the page images is available in the [PURSUE Open Atlas dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/alex-zhang42/ufo-pursue-open-atlas) (CC0).*
Published
- The Report on Unidentified Flying ObjectsEdward J. Ruppelt · 1956
The first-hand account by the Air Force officer who ran Project Blue Book in its early years — the 1952 Washington radar sightings, the Tremonton film, the Mantell case, the green fireballs and the 1953 scientific panel, told from inside the project.
- UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the RecordLeslie Kean · 2010
Dossier compiling first-person accounts from senior government and military witnesses. Set the editorial standard for the modern record.
- In Plain Sight: An Investigation Into UFOs and Impossible ScienceRoss Coulthart · 2021
Long-form investigation by the Australian journalist who broke the David Grusch story two years later.
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