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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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TCM 452 SUBJECT: Unidentified Flying Objects TO: Commanding General Air Material Command Wright-Fatterson AF Base, Ohio ATTENTION: MCIAXO-3 1. In accordance with FS Regulation 200-4, subject: Unidentified Flying Objects, dated 2 November 1948, the following report of information received concerning the sighting of unidentified flying objects is submitted: a. Location and time of sighting: Ten (10) miles northwest of Mountain Home, Idaho, at 1205 MST, 24 July 1949. b. Weather at the time: As reported by Mountain Home Air Force Base for 1130 PST was scattered clouds at five (5) thousand feet, visibility thirty (30) miles. c. Names, occupations, and addresses of witnesses: The only individual who reported this sighting was Harry Clark, occupation Airport Manager of Ritchie Field, Nampa, Idaho, address Nampa, Idaho. d. Photographs of objects if available: Photographs of objects were not available. e. Sketches of object's configuration: The objects were delta wings with no protrusions. The angle of the apex as reported by Mr. Clark was between thirty (30) and forty-five (45) degrees with the base of the triangle being a slightly curved convex. f. Objects sighted: (1) Number: Seven (7) objects were sighted flying in a V formation.
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