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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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# DETACHMENT, 1701ST AIR TRANSPORT WING CONTINENTAL DIVISION, MATS EDMONTON ALBERTA CANADA
SUBJECT: Observation of an Object in the Atmosphere
May Lieuten
TO: Commanding General Air Materiel Command Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Dayton, Ohio ATTENTION: MCIAXO-3
1. The following report of an object observed by 1st Lt. James Toomey is submitted in compliance with Secret Letter dtd 20 Oct 48 from MATS Headquarters, subject: Reporting of Information on "Flying Discs".
a. Location and time of sighting - 117 $ ^{\circ} $ 30' W Longitude 56 $ ^{\circ} $ 10' N Latitude 1418Z 17 November 1948
b. Weather at the time - Weather at the time was overcast with tops at approximately 4500 $ ^{*} $ MSL with a high deck of thin broken stratus clouds at approximately 12,000 ft.
c. Names and occupations and addresses of witnesses - S/Sgy Onno C. Blink, AF 20715676, Radio Operator on the crew and stationed at Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
d. Photographs of objects, if available. No photographs available.
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f. Object sighted:
(1) Number - One
(2) Shape - Egg shaped with a tail
(3) Size Approximately 50' in height tapering to a point at the tail.
(4) Color - Bright flaming orange
(5) Speed - Unknown
(6) Heading- South West Not linked to a story yet.
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.