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This 1970 USAF Office of Information file from the 21st Air Division at Hancock Field, Syracuse, collects community relations correspondence. It includes Enrico Grimaldi's report of faint star-like objects seen over Commack, Long Island on November 21, 1970, and Major Francis C. Moriarty's reply. The reply notes that Project Blue Book ended December 17, 1969, so the Air Force would not investigate. The file also holds a draft article on NORAD and SAGE, survey requests, thank-you letters and press tour messages.
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"We have here a capability of seeing tracks when they first come into our region through our surveillance section. Coupled with this is the identification section which identified our aircraft as friendly, unknown, or hostile. These two sections put their data into the computer which feeds it to the weapons section, the third section. "We also have a manual input system which is responsible for inserting into the computer other information as, for example, weather information and flight plans, received from New York, Boston, Montreal, and Toronto. This additional data is a help to the weapons section in conducting its intercepts and completing missions." Training is continuous in the 21ST NORAD REGION, as is the case with other North American Air Defense Commands located throughout the United States and Canada. At SAGE in Syracuse the weapons section, on a daily basis, flies intercept missions and sends fighter squadrons on daily training flights to help pilots become more proficient with their aircraft. In the event SAGE is destroyed, two back-up computer centers, located at isolated points, can together pick up the air battle. Should these also be put out of operation, the radar squadrons can send their data directly to the NORAD center computers located within Cheyenne Mountain. Too, in the event data lines feeding information from the radar squadrons to the computer were either destroyed or damaged, there exists an elaborate arrangement which allows communications to flow through a countless number of different routes to get from point to point.
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 95 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.