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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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Subj: Unidentified Flying Objects Major Harl Goodrich, Air Material Command, AF Precurement Field Office, Bedford, Mass. Co-pilot 10. Comments of interrogator re intelligence and character of person interrogated: No opinion ## RELATIVE TO RADAR STOETINGS 1. No radars now operating on ground: No radar sightings 2. If airborne, when object was sighted: Not applicable ## GENERAL 1. Telotype sequence of local weather conditions: Estimated 4500 feet overcast, 500 broken, 8 miles visibility 2. Winds aloft report: 250 degrees - 40 knots 3. Local flight schedules of commercial, private and military aircraft flying invicinity at the time: Unknown 4. Possibility releases of testing devices in vicinity sent aloft by Ordnance, Navy, Air Force, Army, Weather Units, Research Organizations, or any other: Unknown 5. If object contacted earth, obtain soil samples within and without depression or spot where object landed for purposes of making comparisons of soils: Unknown 6. If object came sufficiently near other aircraft or known objects, check surfaces with Geiger counters for possible radio-activity. Make comparisons with out unaffected aircraft objects: Unknown 7. Obtain photographs; None obtained 8. Not obtained. 9. Obtain fragments or physical evidence where possible: None Joseph R. McNeil JOSAFN L. MOSEIL Lt Colonel, USAF Commanding 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
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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.