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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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# HEADQUARTERS
2143D AIR WEATHER WING
APO 925
SUBJECT: Report of Sighting of Unidentified Phenomenon
TO : Commanding General Far East Air Forces APO 925 ATTN: AC/S, A-2
1. In accordance with the provisions of letter, Headquarters, United States Air Force, subject: "Reporting of Information on 'Flying Discs'", 26 February 1948, the following information is forwarded:
a. Inclosures 1, 2 and 3 are reports received by the Japanese Central Meteorological Observatory in Tokyo. The observations indicated in these reports were taken by Japanese Weather personnel at the respective stations.
b. Inclosure 4 indicates the location of the stations which observed the object and it's probable path and point of explosion or disappearance.
c. Inclosures 5 and 6 are surface synoptic charts showing the weather existing over Japan at 0600Z and 1200Z on 25 January, which times are approximately four and one half $ (4\frac{1}{2}) $ hours before and one and one half $ (1\frac{1}{2}) $ hours after the unidentified object was sighted.
c. No information has been received other than that reported by the Japanese.
## 6 Incls:
1. Rpt = Fukushima
2. Rpt - Iida, Suwa and Nagano
3. Rpt - Takayama and Gifu
4. Chart - Observation and Path
5. Wx Chart- 250600Z
6. Wx Chart- 251200Z
cc: Commanding General Military Air Transport Service Washington 25, D.C. ATTN: Chief, Intelligence Div. Not linked to a story yet.
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.