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342 HS1-416511228 319.1 Flying Discs 1949

U.S. Department of War · 1950-01-09 · 143 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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.

  • p. 71 …HORIZON AND DISAPPEARED BEHIND TWO THOUSAND FOOT HILL PD WHETHER IT LANDED UNKNOWN PD VISIBLE FROM…

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INCOMING CLASSIFIED MESSAGES

FROM: FT PEPPERPEL NFLD CRYPTO

TO : CG MAMA

INFO: CS USAF HQ MATS

REF NBR: XRAY CHARLIE ZERO TWO ZERO ATTN INTEL

PRIORITY

REOURAD XRAY CHARLIE ZERO ONE EIGHT DTD ONE ZERO FEB FOUR NINE

OBSERVATION WAS MADE FROM CURTING FOUR EIGHT DEGREES FIVE EIGHT

NORTH FIVE EIGHT DEGREES WEST

ASSIGNED TO

D/PL/EMT

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SECRET

Paraphrase not required. Handle as----------------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.