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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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MARCH FLIGHT SERVICE CENTER March Air Force Base, California
DMZ 360.112
1 March 1949
SUBJECT: Information of Unidentified Flying Object.
TO: Commanding General,
Air Material Command,
Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
ATTENTION: MUIAXO-3.
1. In accordance with letter, Headquarters, USAF, subject: "Reporting of Information on "Flying Discs"," dated 6 February 1948 and Flight Service Regulation 200-4, the following information of unidentified flying object is forwarded as received by March Flight Service Center from Air Route Traffic Control, Los Angeles.
a. 1st Lt. John T. Smith, pilot of Air Force 7346, T-11 on a round robin flight from Fresno Air Terminal, California to Los Angeles and return, reported that he was circled by a jet propelled blimp while over Sandberg Pass, about 40 miles south of Bakersfield, California at 2030 P. 28 February 1949. The speed of the object was estimated at 500 MPH, flying at an altitude of nine thousand feet. The object then disappeared on a heading of $ 1 8 0^{\circ} $
b. Weather reported for Sandberg Pass at 2030 P was twenty thousand feet thin scattered clouds, visibility 10 miles, temperature 36, dew point 54, wind south 7, altimeter 3007. Remarks to the sequence weather were: Visibility west 1 mile, fog ceiling and visibility variable due to scattered stratas drifting over station. Conditions radically changing.
c. No other information of object's size, shape, speed, or color, is available.
RALPH A. REEVE Lt. Colonel, USAF Commanding.
Information Copies to:
Chief of Staff, USAF,
Washington 25, D.C.
Attn. Director of Intelligence
Commander, MATS, Washington 25,D.C.
Attn: Intelligence Division
CO, Flight Service, Washington 25, D.C.
Attn: A-2 Not linked to a story yet.
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