342 HS1-416511228 319.1 Flying Discs 1949

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.

P&O/INT

SUBJECT: Reporting of Information on Flying Discs

260CT1948

TO: Commanding General Airways and Air Communication Service Washington 25. D. C. ATTN: AO/8, Intelligence and Security

1. The following TWX received from Headquarters, USAF is quoted for your information and necessary action:

"REFER TO THIS HQS LETTER OF SIX FEB ONE NINE FOUR EIGHT GMA SUBJ SMCLN REPORTING INFORMATION ON FLYING DISCS PD RESHARCH REVEALS GROUPS OF SIGHTINGS OCCUR AT PERIODIC INTERVALS WITH BEGINNING OF NEW INTERVAL INMINENT PD REQUEST ALL UNITS OF YOUR COMMAND BE PARTICULARLY ALERTED TO REPORT SIGHTINGS OF UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL OBJECTS DIRECT TO MCIAXO DASH THREE GMA AMC GMA FASTEST PD WHERE POSSIBLE INITIATE INVESTIGATIVE ACTION WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE"

2. Paraphrase of the above message is not required when handled as secret correspondence.

3. The above referenced USAF letter of 6 February 1948 in quoted TWX is further modified to include reporting of all sightings of flying discs whether they occur within or outside the United States and Alaska.

BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL KUTER:

JAMES F. RHODES Major, USAF Asst Adjutant General