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.

INCOMING CLASSIFIED MESSAGES

PRECEDENCE ROUTINE

FROM: NBC FT PEPPERREL ST JOHNS, NFLD

TO : HQ MATS

AMC, WRIGHT PATTERSON AFB, OHIO

HQ USAF (ATTN CHIEF INTELLIGNECE DIV CMA MATS)

(ATTN MCIAXO-3) (DIRECTOR OF INTELLIGENCE)

REF NBR: EN694

REF MSG FROM ONE TWO TWO SEVEN AB GP GOOSE BAY CMA LAB DATED TWO ONE ONE NINE THREE

ZERO ZEBRA FEB FOUR NINE PD INCIDENT REPORT NOT IN PURVIEW OF USAF AIR INTELL

REQUIREMENTS MEMORANDUM NUMBER FOUR DATED ONE FIVE FEN FOUR NINE THEREFORE WRITTEN

REPORT MENTIONED IN GOOSE BAY MESSAGE AS FORTH COMING NOT BEING SUBMITTED

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Paraphrase not required. Handle as correspondences per paragraph 84 and 90a(4). AR 380-5, 15 August 1946