Air Materiel Command
| Air Materiel Command | |
| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| Parent department | U.S. Army Air Forces / U.S. Air Force |
| Headquarters | Wright Field / Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio |
| Established | 1946 |
| Dissolved | 1961 (became Air Force Logistics Command) |
| UAP role | Ran Project Sign (1948–1949) and early Grudge |
| Status | Defunct |
| Defunct | |
The Air Materiel Command (AMC) was the U.S. Army Air Forces and then Air Force command responsible for research, development and procurement of aircraft, based at Wright Field (later Wright-Patterson Air Force Base) near Dayton, Ohio, from 1946 to 1961.[1]
Role in UFO investigation
On September 23, 1947, AMC commander Lt. Gen. Nathan F. Twining wrote that “the phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious” and recommended a formal study. That led to Project Sign, run by AMC’s intelligence section from January 1948, followed by Project Grudge and, from 1952, Project Blue Book at the Air Technical Intelligence Center, also at Wright-Patterson.[1][2]
PURSUE released several AMC records, including 1946–1948 correspondence on whether flying discs were a matter for AMC and the initial Project Sign report. Wright-Patterson’s role is also why the base features in stories about the “Roswell” debris being taken to “Hangar 18,” which official records do not support.
See also
References
- ^ Twining, N. F. (1947). “AMC Opinion Concerning Flying Discs,” September 23, 1947.
- ^ U.S. Department of War (2026). PURSUE Releases 01 and 05.