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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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HEADQUARTERS MILITARY AIR TRANSPORT SERVICE INCOMING CLASSIFIED MESSAGES CR NBR 05/23 221850Z DTG FROM: NFLD BASE COMD FT PEPPERRELL NFLD PRECEDENCE PRIORITY TO : HQ MATS - ATTN INTELLIGENCE DIV REF NBR: EN 676 refers to X 0274 Ref GB 211930 Faf GB 192130 Mark SCOPE OF POSSIBILITIES PREVENT PROPER EVALUATION OF GOOSE BAY RADIOS DTG TWO ONE ONE NINE THREE ZERO ZEBRA FEB AND DTG ONE NINE TWO ONE THREE ZERO ZEBRA MAR CMA INFO COPIES OF WHICH WERE ADDRESSED YOUR HQ PD INFORMATION AVAILABLE AT THIS HQ INDICATES REPORTED FLIGHTS DID NOT ORIGINATE OR TERMINATE IN THIS COMD AREA PD REPORTS INDICATE ACTIVITY REPORTED IN GREENLAND LAST SUMMER MAY HAVE BEEN EXTENDED OR SHIFTED TO NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT PD REQUEST YOUR HQ CHECK APPROPRIATE UNITED STATES AND CANADIAN SOURCES OF FLIGHTS THAT MAY HAVE ENTERED SPECIFIED AREA AT TIMES INDICATED IN REFERENCED MESSAGES CMA EVALUTATE INFORMATION AND ADVISE THIS HQ RESULTS Letter sent Daf I, USAF on 23 Mar 49 SECRET paragraphs 511 and 60a(4). AR 580-5, 15 August 1948.
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Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 143 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.