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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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Y USHER CO 78TH FTR WG HAMILTON AFB HAMILTON CALIF CONFIDENTIAL CG AIR MATERIEL COMDG WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OHIO PRIORITY CO FLT SV WASH 25 DC GOVT PREPAID HAM HF___HFSC 2 DASH E DASH 8 PD ATTN MIKE CHARLIE ITEM ABLE XRAY OBOE DASH THREE PD FOL MSG RECD FROM SALT LAKE AIR ROUTE TRAFFIC CONTROL AT 1140 MST TWO MAY FOUR NINE CLN QUOTE MR MARVIN LOVE SMALL CMA A RADIO OPERATOR FROM THE CHARLIE ABLE ABLE RADIO STA AT ELKO CMA NEV CMA CALLED FROM HIS HOME TO ELKO RADIO AND ADVISED HE SAW WHAT APPEARED TO BE THREE FLYING DISCS IN THE VICINITY OF ELKO GOING SOUTHWEST PD THEY REMAINED IN THE VICINITY THREE OR FOUR MINUTES PD MR SMALL ENTERED HOUSE TO GET FIELD GLASSES CMA THRU GLASSES THEY APPEARED TO BE THIRTY FEET IN DIAMETER AT APPROX FOURTEEN THOUSAND FT PD THEY MADE LEFT TURN AND DEPARTED AHEAD OF UNITED AIR LINES PLANE DEPARTING ELKO PD SPEED ESTIMATED AT THREE TO FOUR HUNDRED MILES PER HR PD UNITED AIR LINES PILOT DID NOT SEE THEM PD UNQUOTE PAR ONLY MIL ACFT IN THE VICINITY AT THAT TIME WAS ONE BAKER DASH TWO SIX PD WEATHER AT ELKO CLEAR CMA VISIBILITY THREE ZERO MILES OR GREATER PD PD SGD PEDRAZZINI COMDG HFSC I CERTIFY THAT IT IS ESSENTIAL THIS MSG BE TRANSMITTED BY ELECTRICAL MEANS AND THAT ORDINARY OR AIR MAIL WILL NOT SUFFICE IN ITS DELIVERY CONFIDENTIAL HAROLD O PEDRAZZINI LT COL USAF COMDG HFSC 2145Z 2 MAY 49 R M KOLBENSCHLAG CAPT USAF ADJ 1 1
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