341_110448_Records_Relating_to_the_Collection_and_Dissemination_of_Intelligence_1948-1955-TS_CONT_No.2_2-5300-2-5399

Key Findings

• →Three separate crews of the 307th Bomb Group observed an unidentified aircraft on 5 September 1948 at coordinates 5155N/0355E off the west coast of Holland at 30,000 feet altitude, exhibiting sudden acceleration and climb beyond normal 1947-era jet performance.
• →A flying saucer was observed hovering over Neubiberg Air Base for approximately thirty minutes in the week prior to 4 November 1948.
• →Swedish Air Intelligence Service technically qualified personnel concluded that flying saucer phenomena 'cannot be credited to any presently known culture on earth' and assumed the objects may originate from 'previously unknown or unidentified technology, possibly outside the earth.'
• →A Swedish technical expert observed a flying saucer crash or land in a lake; Swedish naval divers subsequently discovered a previously uncharted crater on the lake floor, which Swedish intelligence attributed to a flying saucer impact.
• →USAFE intelligence officers stated they were 'inclined not to discredit entirely' the extraterrestrial origin theory and sought Gen. Cabell's reaction to this assessment.