CASE #114

This document, identified as Case #114 within the UAP Document Archive, provides a historical account regarding the internal management of UFO-related information by the United States Air Force. The core of the document centers on claims made by former USAFHQ spokesman Major William T. Coleman. According to Coleman, Air Force Manual section 190-4, which was in effect as of 1 May 1956, served as a mechanism to influence and control public and congressional discourse regarding Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. Coleman asserted that this regulation mandated the Secretary of the Air Force Office of Information to remove any evidence of UFO intelligence control from official records and communications. This directive stood in direct opposition to the public-facing position held by the Air Force at the time, which maintained that true UFOs did not exist. Furthermore, the document highlights that Major Lawrence J. Tacker’s book underwent review under this specific regulation, a detail that the Air Force had previously denied. Coleman indicated that even if Major Tacker had intended to include evidence of UAP in his work, the regulatory framework would have strictly prohibited such disclosures. The document serves as a record of these allegations concerning the suppression of information and the internal regulatory environment of the Air Force during the mid-1950s.