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This memorandum for record comes from the Deputy Director for Operations of the National Military Command Center (NMCC), a US Army brigadier general. It records NORAD phone reports of lights, jet engine sounds and height-finder radar returns at Malmstrom AFB and nearby SAC sites in Montana, including over Lewistown. Two F-106 interceptors were scrambled but could not intercept the objects, which reportedly turned their lights off while the fighters were present. NORAD ruled out Northern Lights and carried the incident as a fade remaining unknown.
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0440 EST: SAC site C-1 still had a visual sighting on objects. 4. NORAD stated that Northern Lights will sometimes cause phenomena such as this on height-finder radars, but their check with weather services revealed no possibility of Northern Lights. 5. NHCC notified Washington FAA at 0445 EST of the incidents described above. They had not received any information prior to this time. 6. 0522 EST FONECON with NORAD Command Director: At 0405 EST SAC Site L-5 observed one object accelerate and climb rapidly to a point in altitude where it became indistinguishable from the stars. NORAD will carry this incident as a FADE remaining UNKNOWN at 0320 EST, since after that time only visual sightings occurred. Brigadier General, USA Deputy Director for Operations, NMCC Copy to: DDO ADDO CCOC ALL AREA DESKS
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