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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 1118007 FROM: FT PEPPERRELL, NFLD PRECEDENCE PRIORITY ACTION COPY TO : CG AMC-ATTN MCIAXO DASH THREE INFO: CS USAF HQ MATS ATTN INTELLIGENCE DIVISION ASSIGNED TO information copies were distributed to REF NER: CITE XRAY CHARLIE ZERO ONE EIGHT ACTION WILLIAM WELTS OF PEEPERS CROSSING AND JIM BURNES OF CURLING EAST NEWFOUNDLAND OBSERVED BURNING OBJECT AT ZERO SIX FIVE FIVE LOCAL TIME ONE ONE FEBRUARY FOUR NINE TRAVELING SOUTHEAST THROUGH AIR AT ALTITUDE ONE THOUSAND FEET WHILE WAITING FOR BUS PD BUS DRIVER ALSO SAW IT PD VISIBILITY UNLIMITED PD OBJECT CAME UP OVER HORIZON AND DISAPPEARED BEHIND TWO THOUSAND FOOT HILL PD WHETHER IT LANDED UNKNOWN PD VISIBLE FROM FIVE TO ONE ZERO MINUTES PD GLOWING WHEN LIGHTED CMA FADED CMA THEN PUT ON SECOND BURST AT WHICH TIME FLAMING EXHAUST ESTIMATED TO BE TWO HUNDRED YARDS LONG PD NO SOUND PD WELLS WAS ONLY WITNESS INTERVIEWED PD CONSIDERED RELIABLE BY POLICE CMA BUT IS INARTUCULATE PD REPORTED OCCURANCE BECAUSE HE THOUGHT IT COULD BE AIRCRAFT IN TROUBLE Paraphrase not required. Handle as _correspondence per paragraphs 5li and 60a(4), AR 380-5; 15 August 1948. CY___1OF___2CYS
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