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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.
“Harper”1 page
MDT 000.92
Subj: Unidentified Flying Objects
19. Was any radio antenna to be observed: None noted
20. Manner of disappearance; Disappeared into overcast
a. Explode: Not applicable
(1) Possibility of fragments: Not applicable
(2) Other physical evidence: Not applicable
b. Faded from view: Not applicable
c. Disappeared behind obstacle: Not applicable
## RELATIVE TO THE OBSERVER
1. Name of observer: Lt Colonel Phillip J. Kuhl, 3716A
2. Air Material Command, AP Procurement Field Office, Bedford, Mass.
3. Occupation: USAF
4. Place of business: AP Procurement Field Office, Bedford, Mass.
5. Hobbies: Not applicable
6. Ability to determine: Unknown
7. Reliability of observer: No opinion
8. Notes relative to observer on
a. Sightings in general;
The aircraft, AF 7110, was proceeding from Bedford, Mass. to Griffiss Air Force Base, Home, New York. The flame appeared more than twice the length of the object. The object finally disappeared into the overcast, reported at 7000 feet at the time. The approximate coordinates of the sighted object was 48 $ ^{0} 4 0 " $ N 74 $ ^{0} 5 5 " $ W. The approximate distance of the object from the observer was thirty miles.
b. How attention was drawn to objects; Normal pilot surveillance
9. Witnesses: Not linked to a story yet.
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 143 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.