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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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Page 7 FEI Project "SIGN" b. Faded from view: The object climbed out of sight. c. Disappeared behind obstacle: The object climbed out of sight in a clear sky. Relative to the Observer ## 1. Names of observers: Joseph Don Delafayette Sgt AF 12106504 Honorably discharged from the service 6 December 1948. 2. Address: Bruce Earlin McFarland Pfc AF 16278687 DelaFayette R.D.1, Ballston Spa New York McFarland 1901st AAGS Squadron Fairfield-Suisun AFS, California 3. Occupation: DeLafayette - Unknown McFarland - Control tower operator 4. Place of business: a. Employer or employee: DeLafayette - Unknown McFarland - USAF 5. Hobbies: a. Time engaged in hobby (experience) Is observer amateur astronomer, pilot, engineer, etc. DeLafayette - Unknown McFarland - Pfo McFarland, prior to military service, was for three years a radio announcer and was well trained as an announcer of sporting events. No other hobbies are engaged in by Pfo McFarland.
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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.