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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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Ltr fr Maxwell Flight Service Center, Maxwell AF Base, Ak dtd 2 Jan 49 Subj: Unidentified Flying Objects f. Object Sighted, description: (1) Number: One. (2) Shape: Cigar-shaped, with short stubby wings, resembling a rocket, also reported later as resembling a sleeve tow-target. (3) Size: Estimated sixty (60) feet long. (4) Color: Dark Blue or black. (5) Speed: Initially estimated as 200 mph, then increasing to 5-600 mph. (6) Heading: West when first sighted, then southwest when last sighted. (7) Maneuverability: Apparently very maneuverable. (8) Altitude: 1500 feet. (9) Sound: Similar to a helicopter. (10) Exhaust trail: None visible. g. General remarks: (1) When the object was first sighted and reported to Flight Service at Maxwell AF Base at 17350 by the Jackson Operations Office, an attempt was made to investigate the object by calling all military airfields in the area from which a jet or rocket flight may have originated, or at which the object may have been sighted. (2) The following stations were contacted: (a) Eglin AF Base, Florida (b) Pensacola NAS and Chevalier Field NAS. Florida (e) Whiting NAS, Florida (d) New Orleans NAS, Louisiana (e) Memphis NAS, Tennessee (f) New Orleans Air Route Traffic Control Center was also contacted.
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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.