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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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# ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF INFORMATION
(Re Sightings of Unidentified Aerial Objects)
PROJECT "SIGN"
1. Date of Sighting:
## 3 December 1948
2. Time of sighting (Zonal by 24 hr clock)
## 2015 hours Pacific Standard Time
3. Where sighted:
a. Ground:
(1) City, town:
Object was sighted by personnel in the Fairfield-Suisun AFB Control tower.
(2) Distance and direction from city or town road, intersections, etc.
Fairfield-Suisun AFB Control tower is located in the center of the AF Base and 5.5 miles east of the town of Fairfield, California.
(3) From building (story), yard, etc..
Personnel sighted the object while standing inside the control tower 50 feet above ground level.
(4) Map coordinates (if feasible) showing latitude and longitude:
North latitude $ 3 8^{\circ} $ 16 $ \circ $ West Longitude 121 $ ^{\circ} $ 56 $ \circ $
b. Air
(1) Type aircraft, speed, altitude, direction of flight: Not applicable
(2) Distance and direction from city or town or known landmark: Not applicable
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Official release, from the pursue 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. 143 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.