# Col. H. M. McCoy · Person > Head of intelligence at the Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, who signed the 1947 Danforth letter and the 1948 Langley alert filed under Incident 88.… Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88/people/FIG0DFY5Y3KZPQK/col-h-m-mccoy Publisher: Mysteries Department Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page) --- [Incident 88: the Hackensack disc, 3 August 1947](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88)[People](https://mysteriesdept.com/people)Col. H. M. McCoy Person · in 1 mystery # Col. H. M. McCoy Head of intelligence at the Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, who signed the 1947 Danforth letter and the 1948 Langley alert filed under Incident 88. [Incident 88: the Hackensack disc, 3 August 1947](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88)[2 events][2 sources] McCoy signed the Air Materiel Command letter of 25 August 1947 calling the Danforth specimens a hoax unconnected with the Mogul project, and, as Chief, Intelligence Department, the November 1948 letter asking Langley AFB to investigate sightings between Wildwood and Norfolk [@usaf1947danforth] [@usaf1947incident88]. ## In the mysteries **Incident 88: the Hackensack disc, 3 August 1947** Head of intelligence at the Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, who signed the 1947 Danforth letter and the 1948 Langley alert filed under Incident 88. · 2 events [The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88) ## What Col. H. M. McCoy did 2 25 Aug 1947[Air Materiel Command calls the Danforth 'saucer' specimens a hoax unconnected with Mogul](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88/events/EVT0DFY6BTTX8GF/air-materiel-command-calls-the-danforth-saucer-specimens-a) at [Wright Field (Wright-Patterson AFB), Dayton, Ohio](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88/places/PLC0DFY5MNW027N/wright-field-wright-patterson-afb-dayton-ohio) · with [New York University balloon group (Project Mogul)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/roswell/organisations/ORG0CS50XYT5BYB/new-york-university-balloon-group-project-mogul) Nov 1948[AMC asks Langley AFB to investigate any new sightings between Wildwood and Norfolk](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88/events/EVT0DFY6CYR6KXP/amc-asks-langley-afb-to-investigate-any-new-sightings) ## Organisations 1 [New York University balloon group (Project Mogul)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/roswell/organisations/ORG0CS50XYT5BYB/new-york-university-balloon-group-project-mogul) ORG ## Places 1 [Wright Field (Wright-Patterson AFB), Dayton, Ohio](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88/places/PLC0DFY5MNW027N/wright-field-wright-patterson-afb-dayton-ohio) air base PLC ## Sources 2 [Location: Hackensack, New Jersey – Date: August 1947 – Incident Number: 88 (Project Blue Book case file)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DFY3MDQGA59/location-hackensack-new-jersey-date-august-1947-incident) SRC [Danforth, Illinois – August 1947 (Project Blue Book case file)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DFY3MX2ZGRA/danforth-illinois-august-1947-project-blue-book-case-file) SRC ## Cite it ``` Mysteries Department. (2026). Col. H. M. McCoy [Person FIG0DFY5Y3KZPQK]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/FIG0DFY5Y3KZPQK ``` **CH** No free portrait found yet Wikimedia Commons is checked weekly Key **FIG** 0DFY5Y3KZPQK Record Person Occupation signatory, AMC letter of 25 August 1947, signatory, AMC letter to Langley AFB, November 1948 Identity Colonel, USAF; Chief, Intelligence Department, Air Materiel Command In [Incident 88: the Hackensack disc, 3 August 1947](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88) Version 1 Added by [apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo) **How this page is made.** The dates, occupation and identity line come from Wikidata (CC0); the portrait is a free file from Wikimedia Commons. Everything else is the site's own record of what this person did in the mysteries. The record Every record is open data. Take this one as JSON, with its links and its history. [JSON](https://mysteriesdept.com/api/v1/records/FIG0DFY5Y3KZPQK)