Commander General Nathan Twining signed Air Material Command’s Memo “UFOs Were Real”

Commander General Nathan Twining signed Air Material Command’s Memo “UFOs Were Real” 

George A. Filer III New Jersey State Director MUFON Eastern Region Director www.nationalUFOcenter.com January 29, 2013

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General Twining flight logs of 1947 have been released showing his trip from Wright Field to New Mexico where an alien craft crashed in his only trip during the summer of 1947.    

IPU Summary Page 4 states the following:- 

7th July 1947 – Twinning went to Alamogordo AAF for a secret meeting with AAF Chief Of Staff Spaatz and to view recovered remains of craft from crash landing site 20 miles northwest of Socorro. 

8th July 1947 – Twinning went to Kirtland AAF to inspect parts recovered from the power plant.    

9th July 1947 – Twining and staff went to White Sands Proving Ground to inspect pieces of craft being stored there.   

10th July 1947 – Twining made inspection of R&D facilities at Alamogordo and then returned to Wright Field. Much of a craft was sent to Wright Field. Air Accident Report by General Twining to Headquarters, 

16 July 1947 - This three page bureaucratic report provides the first glimpses of Lt. General Nathan F. Twinning’s Air Accident Report who was the Commander of Air Material Command. 

Twining describes in detail the inside of a “flying disc”, everything from typewriter-like keys that control the propulsion system to a thirty-five foot doughnut shaped one-inch tube inside the craft filled with a clear  substance and a coil of copper-like material.  Twining’s  engineers  from Engineering Division T-3 scientific personnel from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and other educated experts report that the object was not manufactured by the US, Germany or the USSR for a variety of reasons including: lack of any known design resemblance, lack of external propulsion system and power plant, and the lack of identifying markings. The experts theorized about how the craft is powered, how it moves, and how and where it is controlled from, but there is no real knowledge beyond the theories. 

The inability for the experts to prove the object to be made in any of the advanced technological societies on Earth is intriguing and thought provoking. The significance and consistency of the technological societies is intriguing and thought provoking. The significance and consistency of the technical content has not been evaluated, although it is clear that the writing is consistent with 1947 state of the art, not modern. A general description of the flying saucer craft is presented including a host of historically accurate AISI metallurgical tests. 

The research team did have success in identifying some control surfaces and exhaust ports and concluded the spherical reactor (hydrogen isotope type) was connected to propulsion motors. Originally published in Leonard Stringfield’s (now deceased) Status Report VII, in 1994. 

And Skywatch OK 
Main Site September 23, 1947 
SUBJECT: AMC Opinion Concerning “Flying Discs” 

TO: Commanding General Army Air Force 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 studies by personnel of T-2 and Aircraft Laboratory, Engineering 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 is something real and not visionary or fictitious. 

b. There are objects probably approximating the shape of a disc, of such appreciable size as to appear to be as large as man-made aircraft. 

c. There is a 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 motion which must be considered evasive when sighted or contacted by friendly aircraft and radar, lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled manually, automatically or remotely. 

e. The apparent common description is as follows:- 

(1) Metallic or light reflecting surface. 

(2) Absence of trail, except in a few instances where the object apparently was operating under high performance 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 instances a substantial rumbling roar was noted. 

(6) Level flight speeds normally above 300 knots are estimated. 

f. It is possible within the present U.S. knowledge — provided 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 7000 miles at subsonic speeds. g. Any development in this country along the lines indicated would be extremely expensive, time consuming and at the considerable expense of current projects and therefore, if directed, should be set up independently 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 subjects. 

(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 investigation develops. A complete interchange of data should be affected. 

4. Awaiting a specific directive AMC will continue the investigation 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. 

Note: Lt. General Nathan Twining headed the Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson AFB in 1947, when Twining was asked to study UFO reports; he recommended that a formal study of the phenomenon take place; Project Sign was the result. He was selected Air Force Chief of Staff (1953–1957); President Eisenhower named him Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff (1957–1961 the Nation’s highest military position. California Boomerang

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This letter was sent out from Air Material Commands (AMC) in response to a request from Brig General Schulgen.  As a result of the opinions expressed by Twining, Gen Schulgen issued his now famous Collection Memorandum. 

Gen. Twining requested that investigations be conducted that might shed some light on the recent rash of Flying Saucer sightings. In response to the Schugen Collection Memorandum, The Walker Memo was sent to see what field offices could find. 

Some proponents view this letter as proof that the Air Force knows that extraterrestrial UFOs exist. The closest the the letter comes to considering alien origin is the opinion that [there is] "The possibility that some foreign nation has a form of propulsion possibly nuclear, which is outside of our domestic knowledge." However, the proponents tend to ignore, or dismiss as an "obvious lie" dictated by the Super Secret Roswell Conspiracy, the instruction that his commanders should consider: "The lack of physical evidence in the shape of crash recovered exhibits which would undeniably prove the existence of these subjects."

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About

·        Name :Twining, Nathan Farragut

·   Ranking : He serves as the senior military adviser to the president, the National Security Council and the secretary of defence.

·        Born :11-10-1897, Monroe, Wisconsin.

·        Nationality :USA.

·        Died :29-03-1982, old age 84, Lakeland Air Force Base in Texas.

·        Buried :

Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, Section 30, grave 434-2.

·         Awards list :

    

NathNan Twining, born 11-10-1897 in Monroe, Wisconsin, came from a military background. His forebears had served in the United States Army and Navy since the French and Indian War. His mother was Frances Staver Twining, author of 'Bird-Watching in the West'. 

 

In 1913, Twining moved with his family to Oswego, Oregon, serving in the Oregon National Guard from 1915 to 1917. In 1917, he received an appointment to West Point. Because the program was shortened so as to produce more officers for combat, he spent only two years at the academy and graduated just a few days too late for service in World War I. 

After graduating in 1918 and serving in the infantry for three years arriving in Europe in July 1919, he transferred to the Air Service. Over the next 15 years he flew fighter aircraft in Texas, Louisiana, and Hawaii, while also attending the Air Corps Tactical School and the Command and General Staff College. When war broke out in Europe he was assigned to the operations division on the Air Staff; then in 1942 he was sent to the South Pacific where he became Chief of Staff of the Allied air forces in that area. In January 1943, he assumed command of the Thirteenth Air Force, nicknamed  "Jungle Air Force" 

, and that same November he traveled across the world to take over the Fifteenth Air Force 

On 01-02-1943, the U.S. Navy rescued Brigade General Twining, the 13^th Air Force Commander, and 14 others near New Hebrides Islands. They ditched their plane on the way from Guadalcanal to Espiritu Santo and spent six days in life rafts. 

When Germany surrendered, Arnold sent Twining back to the Pacific to command the B-29s of the Twentieth Air Force in the last push against Japan, but he was there only a short time when the atomic strikes ended the war. 

On 20 October 1945, Twining led three B-29s in developing a new route from Guam to Washington via India and Germany. They completed the 13,167-mile-trip in 59 hours, 30 minutes. He returned to the States where he was named commander of the Air Materiel Command, and in 1947 he took over Alaskan Air Command. After three years there he was set to retire as a Lieutenant General, but when Muir Fairchild, age 55, on 17-03-1950, the Vice Chief of Staff, died unexpectedly of a heart attack, Twining was elevated to full General and named his successor. 

In 1947, Twining was asked to study UFO reports; he recommended that a formal study of the phenomenon take place; Project Sign was the result. When Hoyt Vandenberg (see Vandenberg) retired in mid-1953, Twining was selected as chief; during his tenure, massive retaliation based on airpower became the national strategy. In 1957, President Eisenhower (see Eisenhower) appointed Twining Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  

General Twining died on 29-03-1982 at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Section 30. In Section 30 also the Generals Willard Paul (see Paul), George Back (see Back), Frank Akers (see Akers), Ted Brooks (see Brooks), Thomas Bourke (see Bourke), Charles Canham (see Canham), Kenneth Cramer (see Cramer), Louis Craig (see Craig), Ira Eaker (see Eaker), Louis Denfeld (see Denfeld), Richardson Edwards (see Edwards) and Admiral Robert Ghormley (see Ghormley), General, Deputy Chief of Staff, Bomb on Hiroshima, Thomas Handy (see Handy).