USAFE TT #1524 Intelligence Extracts: Flying Saucer Reports, Unidentified Aircraft Sighting, and Soviet Radar Intelligence, November 1948

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USAFE 2 TT 1524

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We now have one complete set of all reports prepared by special intelligence organization of the European Command from its conception to present date. We are forwarding these reports for your inspection and final disposition. We are of the opinion that inspection of these reports will lend weight to arguments for allocating Air Force funds to this organization. Advise caution in utilizing these reports as most of them were forwarded as received.

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USAFE 10 TT 1524 -CONFIDENTIAL

4 Nov 1948

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Following report on unidentified aircraft sighting comes from 307th Bomb Group which participated in operation daggar. Unidentified aircraft was sighted by three crews of the group at 1402Z 5 Sep 48 off west coast of Holland, 5155N/0355E. Altitude of all aircraft was 30,000 feet. When first sighted the unidentified A/C was cruising at a normal jet speed, heading 120 degrees. Soon after first seen, A/C began leaving smoke trails and condensation trails accompanied by sudden acceleration and then climb. Generall agreed by observers that it was a single jet propelled A/C employing probably rocket assists with tremendous reserve power, more than normal curising speed for jets of the 1947 variety. Never within identification range; its course did not indicate its purpose.

Our evaluation of the above: B-2.

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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.

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 known culture on earth." They are therefore assuming that these objects originate from some previously unknown or unidentified technology, possibly outside the earth.

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He also knows of a Soviet-built radar set located near Kholomia Airfield (5 KM W of Airfield, near the town of Kholomia). This type set is called "Redut". He believes personnel of this set to be army, assigned to PVO, but is not certain. His regiment conducted flying cooperation exercises with the set, presumably to train the set operators, since the set was first located at Kholomia in Spring 1947. His aircraft, in October 1948, lost the set on such an exercise at a distance of 150 kilometers and altitude of 1200 meters. Following instructions, he then climbed to 3000 meters, when the set again picked him up. he states he believes this type set is standard throughout the PVO, and that he believes its maximum range to be 150 kilometers, because no training flights of greater distances were ever undertaken. Further details will be sought.

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ALL TU-2 of 63 Regt are fitted with IFF type S. CH. (C-4),. located in the tail of the aircraft and operated by a switch in the radio operator's compartment. Further, experiments with airborne radar (A tail warning device) werecarried out in 1947 and TU-2 of his regiment. This equipment involved the installation of a small external array. Sets were removed after a few days of testing, but results were understood to have been satisfactory.

On the subject of Kholomia Airfield, this field is currently apparently simply a level pasture, 600 meters N/S by 1400 meters E/W, but a paved runway is being constructed outside the north boundary of the airfield. No details are known to subject, as work has just commenced. The airfield currently has no installations; aircraft are parked in the open, and fuel is brought directly to the aircraft from the town of Kholomia (7 kilometers to the W) by tank trucks.

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USAFE 16 TT 1524 4 Nov 48 CIC source reports that the Russians have ordered CSR Missions in foreign countries to purchase radar tubes in large quantities regardless of costs. Mission also instructed to purchase a complete radar set. (Eval C-3)

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