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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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# MCCHORD FLIGHT SERVICE CENTER McChord Air Force Base Washington TCM452 SUBJECT: Unidentified Flying Objects TO: Commanding General Air Material Command Wright-Patterson AF Base, Ohio ATTENTION: MCIAXO-3 1. In compliance with FS Regulation 200-4 the following reports of sighting of unidentified flying objects are submitted: a. Location and time of sighting: Over the city of Seattle, Washington, 1845P, 22 August 1949. b. Weather at the time: Clear, visibility unrestricted. c. Names, occupations, and addresses of witnesses: (1) Sgt Jack Faulkner, Controller, 143rd National Guard Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, 6736 Ellis Avenue, Seattle 8, Washington. (2) T/Sgt T. D. Mullen, Controller, 143rd National Guard Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, 6736 Ellis Avenue, Seattle 8, Washington. (3) Sgt Roger H. Studeman, Controller, 143rd National Guard Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, 6736 Ellis Avenue, Seattle 8, Washington. d. Photographs of objects, if available: Photographs of objects are not available. e. Sketches of object's configuration: Sketches of object's configuration are not available.
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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.