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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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# ADDITIONAL REPORT ON THE GLOW PHENOMENON ON 25TH
Jan. 27th, 1949. CMO. Tokyo
In addition to the previous report on the glow from the Takayama Weather Station, we have received reports also from the other stations on the same phenomenon, stating as follows:
## 1. Iida Weather Station.
Last night, we have observed in this district a phenomenon probably be a fall of meteor. The following is the report for it.
At Iida, at 19h 46m 30s, a pale glow was observed in the direction of Northeast at an altitude of $ 3 5^{\circ} $ above the horizon, which moved almost horizontally through north toward west and then disappeared. This glow was as great as one and a half of the moon in diameter with considerable brightness. At about 19h 50m, a heavy sound was heard and doors trembled. This phenomenon have been observed in many places in the district of this station, of which report will be made after investigation.
## 2. Suwa Weather Station.
At 19h 50m on 25th, a pale glow like meteor with a sound was observed at Suwa. This glow appeared in a distance of a few degree to the north-north-east of Betelguese in the Orion Constellation and moved almost to southeast, attaining its maximum brightness at an altitude of about $ 6 0^{\circ} $ above horizon. It shined with palish white colour, the intensity of which was such that objects on the ground near the observer were clearly discernible for a moment illuminated by it. Thereafter, it became yellowish in colour, then yellowish red passing a point in the southwest and at an altitude of about $ 4 0^{\circ} $ , and finally disappeared. The time elapsed for the above was 3 or 4 seconds. About 1 minute thereafter, a sound resembling to a distant thunder was heard, which continued for about 15 seconds.
## 3. Nagano Weather Station.
At about 19h 50m on January 25th, a phenomenon, probably be a meteor, with a sound like that of explosion was observed in many places near this station. According to the observation taken by Yasuo Miyamoto, a member of this station, a glow appeared in the direction of east-south-east and at a point of medium altitude above horizon, which moved sending out palish white light toward a point in the direction of west-south-west, where it disappeared below the horizon. This glow continued about 5 minutes. About 3 minutes thereafter, a sound like that of explosion was heard in the direction of west-south-west. Not linked to a story yet.
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