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342 HS1-416511228 319.1 Flying Discs 1949

U.S. Department of War · 1950-01-09 · 143 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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.

  • p. 121 # DETACHMENT, 1701ST AIR TRANSPORT WING CONTINENTAL DIVISION, MATS EDMONTON ALBERTA CANADA SUBJECT: Observation of an Object…
  • p. 141 …Object was sighted on the first leg of a flight from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, to Kittigazuit…

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# JACKSON WEATHER

1630C JACKSON WEATHER

E180-@ 15+ 173/ 53/35↑^7/003/E350-@

1730C JACKSON WEATHER

M160@ 15+ 169/52/29T1/002/BINOVC

WINDS ALOFT

2000 FEET	200 DEGREES	10 KNOTS
4000 FEET	270 DEGREES	10 KNOTS
6000 FEET	270 DEGREES	15 KNOTS
8000 FEET	275 DEGREES	20 KNOTS
10000FEET	270 DEGREES	15 KNOTS
12000FEET	270 DEGREES	20 KNOTS
14000FEET	270 DEGREES	20 KNOTS
16000FEET	270 DEGREES	20 KNOTS
20000FEET	275 DEGREES	55 KNOTS

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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.