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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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TCM452 SUBJECT: Unidentified Flying Objects TO: Commanding General Air Materiel Command Wright-Patterson AF Base, Ohio ATTENTION: MCIAX0-3 1. The following report of sighting unidentified flying objects is submitted: a. Location and time of sighting: Over the city of Spokane, Washington, at 2020 PST, 26 July 1949. b. Weather at the time: The 2030 PST weather report for Spokane, Geiger Field, estimated ceiling fourteen (14) thousand feet, broken, lower broken, visibility forty (40) miles, upper broken clouds estimated at twenty-two (22) thousand feet. c. Names, occupations, and addresses of witnesses: Bill Miller, civilian commercial pilot, S 411 Carahan, Spokane, Washington, Phone Number Lakeview 7933. d. Photographs of objects, if available: Photographs of objects were not available. e. Sketches of object's configuration: Sketches of object's configuration were not available. f. Objects sighted: (1) Number: eight. (2) Shape: Dish shaped. (3) Size: Larger than a B-29. (4) Color: Not reported.
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