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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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9187624 > 9021046 # RUSCARIM M9570X5 02031 -09C2\600\PM3C\FC X671 +01 00-0212 # N20C3V 200X84V 200FT DV20C3V 200FT SC\84V +CF 90470 ## FY1014 0910 2020 A200J 0F A200X 0F K200J 0F B100J 0S B200J 0T B300J 0S B400J 0S B500J 0S B600J 0S B700J 0S RECEIVED AIR TRANSPORT COMMAND A-3 10N 13 1949 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 RECEIVED 11 JAN 1949 REGISTERED UNIT MATS
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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.