General Twining is a very important figure in UFO study. He apparently took part in several UFO crash investigations. Documents of one such investigation were unclassified and you can find it in attachment. As UFO lore goes Openhinmer was scientific consultant on this case and was vaguely mentioined in the movie, but both sides were carefull not to use any names.
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eng.ufo.case__1947 July Socorro, NM, US__ AF general Nathan Twining - Report on Flying Disc Cr...pdf
Great thread mate, would also say this 1949 one is well worth a look.
• "At a recent weekly intelligence conference of G-2, ONI, OSI and FBI in the Fourth Army area, officers of G-2 Fourth Army have discussed the matter of 'unidentified aircraft' or 'unidentified aerial phenomena,' otherwise known as 'flying discs,' 'flying saucers' and 'balls of fire.' This matter is considered top secret by intelligence officers of both the Army and the Air Force.
FBI issued memo on UFOs entitled 'Protection of Vital Installations' sent to the Office of Naval Intelligence and the Office of Special Investigation (first mention of UAP) - January 31st, 1949.
Know a lot of folks on here will already be aware of many of these gov UFO docos but thought it might be good to start compiling them all in one place. There's an ongoing list of UFO statements to post so if anyone knows of any other (authenticated) documents then please post away. •...