Maj. Gen. Robert B. Landry

Positions on the chart (1)

• EOP Presidential air aide, 1948–1953 Verify
  Staff · People Registry · Registry: presidential military aide; dates added V86

Registry record

Past roles

US Air Force officer; presidential military aide

Credentials

Major general

UAP involvement

Recalled Truman directing him to obtain recurring UFO intelligence assessments

Principal disclosures

1948 Oval Office instruction described in oral history

Evidence contributed

First-person retrospective testimony about presidential instruction

Knowledge type

Firsthand to conversation; retrospective account

Corroboration

No surviving signed UFO directive established

Rank source

People Registry

Evidence (1)

• Landry recalls Truman requesting periodic UFO intelligence reports ReportedFirsthand
  E-TRU-02 · 1948 (recalled later) · Oral history