Top Secret 1948 USAF Document Cites Extraterrestrial Origins for Flying Saucers

"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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(Declassified 7/31/1997)

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USAFE 14 (USAF Europe)   TT 1524       TOP SECRET         4 Nov 1948

From OT OB

For some time we have been concerned by the recurring reports on flying

saucers.  They periodically continue to pop 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.

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 carefully 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.  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?

T O P    S E C R E T

(End of USAFE Item 14)

[SOURCE:  U.S. National Archives, reprinted by Timothy Good, Need to Know, 2007, p. 115]