On the afternoon of June 9, 2026, Lawmakers and UAP whistleblowers assembled at the U.S. Capitol to renew calls for greater government transparency, including immunity for whistleblowers. When asked by reporters how interested people could learn more about the subject, former US intelligence officer David Grusch suggested they read pages 7-16 of Australian nuclear scientist O.H. “Harry” Turner’s 1971 declassified report on the UFO subject. In that report, Turner references the Air Materiel Command’s “Opinion Concerning “Flying Discs”” report, written by Lt. General Nathan F. Twining on the 23rd of September 1947 that categorically states

“The reported phenomenon is real and not visionary or fictious”

The secret level AMC report has been declassified since 2001, but an official, digitized version was not available online until this year, as part of the Department of War’s PURSUE release 01 on the 8th of May 2026. This report was the “limited hangout” version, classified in such a way that it could be shared with other government departments and friendly foreign nations, such as Australia. The other version, classified as TOP SECRET / MAJIC EYES ONLY - only to be shared with the few people who had a specific “Need to Know”, - was produced on Friday, 19th of September 1947 by Twining and given to President Harry Truman to read over the weekend of 20-21 September. It was approved by him on Wednesday, 24th of September 1947 and is now known as the “White Hot” report, and its content disturbed Truman so much that he wrote about it in his diary.

Who was Harry Turner?

Harry Turner was an Australian nuclear weapons scientist who worked on the controversial British weapons tests in Australia during the 1950s. Veteran Australian UFO researcher Bill Chalker interviewed Harry on several occasions in the 2000s and is pictured above with him. Bill’s firsthand discussions with Harry can be found here, and include Turner’s association with UFO researchers Jacques Vallee and fellow Australian Dr. Michael Duggin, who in turn worked with Major General Neil McCasland at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico.

https://theozfiles.blogspot.com/search?q=Turner

My good friend Ross Coulthart has also written about Harry and his background:

Australia’s Real X-Files: How Top Australian Government Scientists Pushed To Investigate UFOs

The pages of the report Grusch recommended everyone read are attached here:

I have included an additional page to Grusch’s recommendations, as they contain important clues regarding the “limited hangout” that the AMC Opinion Concerning “Flying Discs” provided, and General Hoyt Vandenberg’s fury at the fact that the subject was even being discussed. Twining’s career was to suffer a temporary setback for his authorship of the report and both he and his family suffered from its repercussions.

The two dates that are of interest in the page above are September 23, 1947 - the publication of the AMC Opinion Concerning Flying Saucers report - and September 1948, when General Vandenberg angrily rejected the USAF Air Technical Intelligence Center’s “Estimate of the Situation” about the threat to air safety that UFOs presented to air crews.

Twining’s SECRET memo can be seen below:

This is the TOP SECRET/MAJIC EYES ONLY version of that report, given to Truman.

As you can see on the front page, it was completed by Twining on Friday, 19th September 1947 and forwarded to the President. On Sunday, 21st of September 1947, fellow researcher Jed Davis MJ12 Logic found that a shocked Truman simply writes the following in his diary:

https://substack.com/@mj12logic/p-186897944

Jed has also discovered evidence of the transmittal of the Twining White Hot report to the White House by the Director of Central Intelligence, Rear Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter on Wednesday, 24th September 1947 - the day Truman signed its front page.

https://majestictruth.substack.com/p/the-day-the-dci-slipped-the-92447

A copy is also retained by the T-3 section of AMC, headed by Major General Ben Chidlaw.

Twining attracts the ire of General Hoyt Vandenberg for his report

Concerns about the Air Material Command’s research into UFOs had existed well before the Roswell Crash. Major General Curtis LeMay was originally posted to Wright Field in 1946, however he switched positions to take up the lead of the US Army Air Force’s Research and Development branch in Washington, DC. LeMay was well aware of the alien presence - one of his bomber crews struck a series of silver discs whilst on a bombing raid over Schweinfurt, Germany on the 14th of October 1943. The US Army Air Force wanted to bring Twining and his researchers to heel.

Dedicated UFO researchers Kelly Hughes, Rennie Fletcher, Craig Oliver and Michael Armentor conspired to dig into Twining’s papers at the Library of Congress, spending hundreds of hours beforehand to decide the targets. They uncovered a timeline of Twining’s expulsion from AMC at Wright Field in the fallout from his Earth-shattering reports.

First up, Twining is invited to Washington DC in May 1947 by General Jimmy Doolittle to attend an Air Force Association dinner. Twining declines. As it turned out, he was insanely busy in September anyway.

Next, Vandenberg himself asks Twining via Major General Emmett “Rosie” O’Donnell to come to DC on the 9th of September to receive an award. Again, Twining declines, writing in the footer “See no need for special trip”. Vandenberg fumes.

Twining invites consultants from the Advanced Study Group to see the discoveries now stored at Wright Field:

After the White-Hot report is delivered to President Truman and approved by him on the 24th of September, Vandenberg unleashes his full fury on the 29th of September with the following telegram:

Twining’s office acknowledges receipt of the message the 30th September, not knowing why he is being summoned:

Twining is informed by Vandenberg that he is being posted to the Alaska command, the U.S. equivalent of being sent to Siberia.

Twining and his family are shipped out immediately and are in Anchorage by the 20th October, effectively ending his research into UFOs. Twining laments missing “the grand crowd” at Wright Field to his successor, Ben Chidlaw - now a Lt. General.

On the 23rd of October, newly minted Secretary of the Air Force W. Stuart Symington writes to Twining to express his sorrow at not seeing Twining before he left in a whirlwind for his new Alaskan command, asking when the best time to visit would be. As we shall see, Symington shares Twinings’ interest in UFOs.

Twining writes back to Symington on the 6th of November, advising on the best travel options for his planned visit.

W. Stuart Symington was a close friend of President John F. Kennedy for many years - it was his name that JFK pulled out of a hat to run as Vice President in the 1960 Presidential Election. For reasons that remain unclear to this day, Lyndon B. Johnson was instead selected to run as VP.

The US Army Counter Intelligence Corps’ Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit report of the events of the Roswell Crash was written in late July 1947 and contained the following excerpt:

The Bottom Line: Stuart Symington was the source of the information that made President John F. Kennedy hunt for the truth of the UFO phenomenon when he became President - and which ultimately got him assassinated.