341_110448_Records_Relating_to_the_Collection_and_Dissemination_of_Intelligence_1948-1955-TS_CONT_No.2_2-5300-2-5399
Agency: Department of War
Incident date: 11/8/48
Incident location: Netherlands

An Air Force intelligence report from November 1948 relating to unidentified flying objects and flying saucers.

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22317, TOP-SECRET a | | USAFE 14 TT 1524 oP-SRChET Nov 1948 : | From OI 0B | For some time we have been concerned by the recurring reports on flying saucers. They periodically continue to cop up; during the last week, one was observed hovering over Neubiberg Air Base for about thirty minutes. They have been reported by so many sources and from such a variety of places that we are convinced that they cannot be disregarded and must be explained on some basis which is perhaps slightly beyond the scope of our present intelligence thinking. i When officers of this Directorate recently visited the Swedish Air . Intelligence Service. This question was put to the Swedes, Their answer was that some reliable and fully technically qualified people have reached | the conclusion that "these phenomena are obviously the result of a high technical skill which cannot be credited to any presently know culture on earth," Theysare therefore assuming that these objects originate from some previously unknown or unidentified technology, possibly outside the earth. : One of these objects was observed by a Swedish technical expert near his home on the edge of a lake. The object crashed or landed in the lake and he caréfully noted its azimuth from his point of observation, Swedish ) intelligence was sufficiently confident in his observation that a naval salvage team was sent to the lake, Operations were underway during the visit of USAF officers. Divers had discovered a previosuly uncharted crater on the floor of the lake. No further information is available, but : we have been promised knowledge of the results. In their opinion, the observation was reliable, and they believe that the depression on the floor of the lake, which did not appear on current Hydrographic charts, was in fact caused by a flying saucer, | Although accepting this theory of the origin of these objects poses a whole new group of questions and puts much of our thinking in a changed light, we are inclined not to discredit entirely this somewhat spectacular theory, meantime keeping an open mind on the subject. What are your reactions? | TOP —sfCraT | (END OF USAFE ITEM 14) NW 90307 Docld:34714985 Page 5

ps _ G BMW of Airfield, near the town of Kholomia), This type set is = = = the set was first Located at Kholomia in Spring 1947, His airerafl, in = ss ad aLtdtude of 1200 meters. Following instructions, he then climbed to = 8 = oo. 3000 meters, when the set again picked him up. he Ot ae ee oe sae type set is standard throughout the PV, and that he believes its madam | range to be 150 Kdloueters, because no training flights of greater distances = | "ALL "U2 of 63 Regt aro fitted with IRF type S. CH. (C-4), located = er cot pete eee a ae ae eee compartment. Further, experiments with airborne radar (‘ tail warnit _ devies) werecarried out in 1947 and TU+2 of his regiment. This —— . | _ dnvolved the installation of a smali external array. Sets were remmved after | tn the subject of Kholowia Airfield, this field ic currently apparently = [ rege Be level pasture, 600 meters x /s by 1400 meters B/il, 6 _ a | ss A ‘being constructed outside the north boundary of the airfield. No details | ss ae known to subject, as work has just comuenced, The airfield currently has | _-—s«sR@_Anstallations; aireraft are parked in the open, and fuel is brought = | -—~—s@peetly to the aireraft from the town of Kholomia (7 kilometers to the W) by _. Another interesting fact is the arrival of the Tu=2 with only acrew re in fatigue details, and HMME rarely carried on training flights, ee | - POP ap godor that a plaque in the aircraft stated ener 3 had Esa produced in Factory le. 19, ss eondueted so far, and many more details are espected to be obtained inthe = | _—s Rex week or two, with both pilot end navigator being interrogated, = = NW 90307 . | Docld:34714985 Page 6