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This 1949 War Department file 319.1, Flying Discs, is a set of U.S. Air Force Flight Service Center reports on unidentified flying objects sent to the Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson. The reports cover sightings over Kansas City and Olathe, Rome, Seattle, Greenville, Spokane, Medford, Columbus, Portland, Mountain Home, Jackson and Chanute AFB. Most remain unexplained, but the Greenville object was found to be a weather balloon. The file also holds a 1948 order telling units to report disc sightings.
From the source:Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: 1/9/50, N/A. This file primarily contains incident reports on Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) written in compliance with the 1948 Flight Service Regulation (FSR) 200-4. The incidents were witnessed by military sources, as well as by some Civilian Aviation Authority (CAA) ones. The reports typically include information such as dates, locations, weather, and altitude, plus detailed descriptions of appearance and movement. Some messages from the Military Air Transport Service (MATS) and Army Airways Communications System (AACS) are also included, as well as additional military intelligence reports, several diagrams, and a report from a weather station in Japan.
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TCM 452 SUBJECT: Unidentified Flying Objects f. Object sighted: (1) Number: One. (2) Shape: Circular. (3) Size: Estimated seventy-five (75) to one hundred (100) feet in diameter with an estimated depth of ten (10) to fifteen (15) feet. (4) Color: Shiny aluminum. Object reflected the sun's rays. (5) Speed: Estimated five (5) to six (6) hundred miles per hour. (6) Heading: From north to south. (7) Maneuverability: Object did not maneuver. (8) Altitude: Estimated ten (10) thousand feet. (9) Sound: The sound was similar to a jet aircraft. (10) Exhaust trail or not: No exhaust trail was noted. g. Sgt Studeman first saw the object from his home in the north end of Seattle. He called Sgt Faulkner who was on duty at the 143rd National Guard Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron and reported the object. Sgt Faulkner reported that after receiving the call from Sgt Studeman he stepped outside of the office and he saw apparently the same object reported by Sgt Studeman. T/Sgt Mullen also saw the same object. Sgt Mullen was at his home in the south end of Seattle at the time he saw the object and he reported the information to the CAA Control Tower at Boeing Field, Seattle, Washington, who relayed the information to the McChord Flight Service Center. Both Sgt Faulkner and Sgt Studeman saw other aircraft in the air at the same time the circular object was
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Official release, from the pursue 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. 143 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.