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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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Subject: Report of Unidentified Flying Object
f. OBJECT SIGNED:
(1) NUMBER: One.
(2) SHAPE: No report.
(3) SIZE: No report.
(4) COLOR: Bright green, yellow, red.
(5) SPEED: Unknown.
(6) HEADING: SW from Godman Field.
(7) MANEUVERABILITY: Object appeared to be rotating.
(8) ALTITUDE: Horizontal angle $ 2 4 2. 5^{\circ} $ , vertical angle $ 0 3. 6^{\circ} $
(9) SOUND: No report.
(10) EXHAUST TRAIL OR NOT: None.
g. GENERAL REMARKS:
(1) At 0250E, bright object sighted SW of Ft Knox, Kentucky by weather observers. Traced on Theodolite. Object appeared to be rotating with green, yellow and red colors. The object was getting dimmer as time passed.
(2) At 0510E, object disappeared in SW completely after a series of bright flashes.
Copy Purnished:
1 - Chief of Staff, USAF,
ATTN: Director of
Intelligence Lt Colonel, USAF
Commanding
1 - Commander MATS, ATTN:
Chief Intelligence Divn
1 - GO Flight Service, ATTN: A-2 Not linked to a story yet.
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