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Flying disc reports were routed to the Air Materiel Command, the technical intelligence arm responsible for analyzing foreign hardware, within months of the 1947 Arnold sighting, establishing immediate institutional triage.

This was not civilian panic being shelved. Military leadership assigned the technical intelligence community to the problem, suggesting they perceived it as a foreign military or technological question rather than as mass hysteria.

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