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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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POSSIBLE TARGET 6 MILES SOUTH OF THE BASE BUT TARGET COULD NOT BE UALLY CONPIRHED BY DAVE72 WHEN VECTORED TO THE AREA. AT 8329Z.

THREE SECURITY POLICE PERSONNEL REPORTED SIGHTING AND HEARING A HELICopter over the DACE PROPER AT APPROXIMATELY 339 PTS. ALSTATES TRAVELING EAST TO HEART,

THIS TARGET COULD NOT BE CONFIRMED BY RADAR ON SAVE72. ROTAL CANADIAN POUNTER POLICE OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT SPOT73D. DAE RELECOP

FLYING LOW OVER THE ST. JOHN RIVER APPROX. 78 MILES SE-OF LCRING AT 0329Z. CANADIAN OFFICIALS IN THAT AREA HAVE BEEN ALERTED TO CHECK

POSSIBLE LANDING SITES.

AT 03432 RAPSON REPORTED A 8 LOW MOVING TARGET AT 7NN ANZ CF BASE. CAVE 72 HAS AGAIN LAUNCHED AND VECTORED TO THE AREA. TARGET DISCAPPEL FROM RADAR AT 10NN CH

AHEADING 07 919 DEGREES. NO VISUAL CONTACT HAVE BY SAVE72. CALL AND

DO NOT CONSIDER REQUEST FOR PIGHTER LAUNCH TO BE AN APPROPRIATE.

DEFENSE TO DAY OF THESE GIGHTINGS.

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Cases discussed

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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.