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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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INCOMING CLASSIFIED MESSAGES DTG 192130Z PRECEDENCE PRIORITY FROM: HQ SAC TO : HQ AMC INFO: HQ USAF, HQ MATS, HQ NFLD BASE COMD, DIRECTORATE OF INTEL HQ USAF CMA CHIEF OF INTELL DIV MATS AND ABLE CHARLIE SLANT SUGAR INTELL NBC. REF PROJ SIGN PD MSG ROM CO DET XTAL ONE CMA FORT CHIMO CMA QUEBEC CMA STATED UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT SIGHTED THAT STATION ONE NINE FIVE ZERO ZERO ZEBRA ONE EIGHT MARCH FOUR NINE CMA OBJECT DISPLAYED RED LIGHT SAME AS ACFT CMA APPROX ONE ZERO THOUSAND FEET ALT PD ESTIMATED SPEED TWO HUNDRED MILES PER HOUR PD DIRECTION OF ELIGHT WAS WEST TO EAST CMA REMAINED IN SIGHT FOR APPROX THREE MINUTES PD NO SOUND WAS HEARD PD OBJECT SIGHTED BY FOUR RELIABLE WITNESSES PD ADDITIONAL INFO WILL BE FURNISHED UPON COMPLETION OF INVESTIGATION FROM THIS STATION. ASSIGNED TO PLENT Information copies were distributed for LOG Paraphrase not required. Handle as SECRET correspondence per paragraphs 51i and 60a(4), AR 380-5, 15 August 1946.
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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.