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Howard M. McCoy

Air Force colonel, intelligence chief at Air Materiel Command · 1946 to 1949 at AMC

Senior Air Force intelligence officer when Projects Sign and Grudge began.

From December 1946 to August 1949 McCoy was Deputy Commanding General for Intelligence (T-2), then Chief of the Intelligence Department, at Headquarters, Air Materiel Command, at what is now Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. His personnel record, released in October 2026, says he was among the senior officers involved in designing and running Projects Sign and Grudge, the Air Force's first UFO studies. He left the service as a colonel.

Sources

Final personnel record, DOW-UAP-D180 (full text)
The original on war.gov

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