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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.

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.

Source integrity: SHA-256 `34d59dc7578ffe7e…`

- **18_100754_general_1946-7_vol_2** (Agency unknown, n.d.) — 28 pages.

Source integrity: SHA-256 `85d659d6b2208610…`

*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).*

Source documents
Primary sourceU.S. Department of War — PURSUE Release 01
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