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Office of the Secretary of Defense · 40 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This assortment of records released by the Office of the Secretary of Defense collects 1975 National Military Command Center memoranda and message traffic. They cover unidentified helicopters and low-flying aircraft seen over weapons storage areas at Loring AFB, Maine, and Wurtsmith AFB, Michigan, along with radar and visual UFO contacts at Malmstrom AFB, Montana. The file also contains a 1976 defense attaché report on F-4 intercepts of a UFO over Tehran and Air Force UFO statistics for 1965.

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TRANSIT/291140Z/291149Z/8281897CR3021:45

DE RUCSHIJ #1705 3021:40

ZNY:CCCCC:ZFD:RUCSCSA ZN21

0 291140Z-OCT 75

>FM 42BW CP LCRING ME/JJ2234

TO ZEN/SAC CP FORCE STATUS

ZEN/SAC CP LOGISTICS

ZEN/8AF CP FORCE STATUS

ZEN/8AF CP LOGISTICS

ZEN/509BW CP PEASE NM

RUEKJCS/JCS{NMLC}

RUEFHGA/CSAF

RUEKAAA/USAF FWD OPS DIY FT HITCHIE MD

Cases discussed

Loring AFB Incursions and the 1975 Northern Tier Overflights 1975
unidentified helicopter... penetrated Loring AFB... weapons storage area, Oct 75; Wurtsmith and Malmstrom sightings
The 1976 Tehran UFO Incident (Dogfight over Tehran) 1976
USDAO Tehran: sighting of an UFO in Iran on 19 September 1976, F-4 scrambled from Shahrokhi

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FOIA release, from the osd 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. 40 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.