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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, Ala dtd 2 Jan 49 Subj: Unidentified Flying Objects (3) No information was available at any of these stations. 2. The object was sighted by the witnesses from a Stinson civilian aircraft, and no photographs were taken because no camera was available. At the time of sighting, the Stinson was 3 or 4 miles east of Jackson, Mississippi on the east leg of the Jackson radio range at approximately 1200 feet altitude. 3. At 18400 on 1 January 1949, New Orleans Air Route Traffic Control Center reported to Maxwell Flight Service Center that the Associated Press had advised them that the above mentioned object had been sighted 40 miles south of Jackson, Mississippi. This second report was evidently the same as the above because the reporting pilot was the same, i.e., Mr. Tom Rush. Maxwell Flight Service contacted Mr. Rush, who is preparing sketches of the object he reported. He also advised that he saw the object only once. FOR THE COMMANDING OFFICER: Copies furnished: Chief of Staff, USAF Washington 25, D. C. ATTN: Director of Intelligence HAROLD E. ETHERIDGE 1st Lt., USAF Adjutant Commander, Military Air Transport Service Washington 25, D. C. ATTN: Chief, Intelligence Division Commanding Officer, Flight Service Washington 25, D. C. ATTN: A-2
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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.