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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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SUBJECT: Reporting of Information on "Flying Discs" ## 90: Commanding General Air Material Command Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Dayton, Ohio ATTN: TSDIN 1. In compliance with 21020 Air Weather Group TEX 464 dated 19 November 1948 and letter, Headquarters, United States Air Force, subject as above, 6 February 1948, the following report is submitted: e. Chamute Air Force Base, Illinois, 0900462. b. High scattered clouds, visibility ten miles. c. Sgt. James E. Doty and Sgt. Dugene E. Montag, Weather Observers, Oct 16/1L, 16th Weather Squadron, Chanute AFB, Illinois. d. Photographs of objects - none available. e. Sketches of objects - None available. f. Object sighted: (1) One (2) Sound (3) Undetermined size (4) Bright white color (5) Two tenths of distant sky within two to three seconds. (6) Heading from north east toward south south west. (7) Undetermined maneuverability. (E) Undetermined altitude. (9) No sound (10) Exhaust trail undetermined. ## s. General remarks: Object eighted to north east moving to south south west that resembled a skyrocket or meteor but was moving upward fifteen degrees. Object was described to be about thirty five degrees above the horizon and traversed across thirty five degrees of the horizon within three seconds and disappeared. used 31 Dec 48
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