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Office of the Secretary of Defense · 40 pages · text by 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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p. 8 …AT 24192 ALERT WELO SAVE72 HAS LAUNCHED TO IDENTIFY THE OBJECT. 245272 ARCHED THE AREA AND…
p. 25 …RUFOTAHZN94 WASH DC RHFADVU/UHTTF HOUSE·WASH DC BUFFHOLD/CSAF WASH DC RUIFN E A A…

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

About this file

FOIA release, from the osd collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 40 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.