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This NICAP compilation gathers National Military Command Center memoranda, DDO updates and OPREP-3 messages from October and November 1975 reporting unidentified helicopters and low-flying aircraft near weapons storage areas at Loring AFB, Maine and Wurtsmith AFB, Michigan, plus radar and visual UFO contacts at Malmstrom AFB, Montana. Pursuit attempts by an Army National Guard helicopter and a KC-135 tanker failed. The file also includes a 1976 USDAO Tehran report on an F-4 encounter, 1965 Blue Book statistics and an American Meteor Society fireball form.

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  • p. 5 …At 290300 EST Oct 75, the unidentified helicopter was sighted over the weapons storage area. In…
  • p. 7 …RAPCON showed several aircraft at the time, one near the WSA (there was no hovering as…
  • p. 15 …the Army NG helicopter and crew on "Full Time Training Duty" (FTTD). In essence, the NG…
  • p. 19 …RAPCON showed several aircraft at the time, one near the WSA (there was no hovering as…
  • p. 20 …AREA AND BACK NORTH TO THE BASE AREA A NUMBER OF TIMES. EACH TIME THE KC…
  • p. 21 …RAPCON showed several objects on radar at the same time. A tanker was dispatched to the…
  • p. 26 …THERF UFRF NO HELICOPTERS AIRBORNE AT THAT TIME. AFTER HE TOLD THE CITIZEN IT WAS ONLY…
  • p. 27 …DURING THE TIME THAT THE OBJECT PASSED OVER THE F-4 THE TOWER DID NOT HAVE…
  • p. 29 …At the time of the initial voice report personnel at Malmstrom AFB and SAC sites K1…
  • p. 30 …of the incidents described above. They had not received any information prior to this time. 6…
  • p. 34 …The temperature inversion analysis indicated no significant temperature inversion at Eglin AFB at that time. The…
  • p. 35 …The following events summarize the reports (times are approximate). 2. 0130 - Civilians reported a UFO sighting…
  • p. 40 …Give the date, hour and minute when the meteor appeared; also kind of time used. (4…
## STATISTICS FOR 1965

	JAN	FEB	MAR	APR	MAY	JUN	JUL	AUG	SEP	OCT	NOV	DEC	TOTAL
ASTRONOMICAL	10	8	11	4	2	10	27	82	30	27	22	12	245
AIRCRAFT	11	8	14	11	14	7	32	61	20	13	14	5	210
BALLOON	3	2	1	3	0	3	7	8	2	7	0	2	36
INSUFFICIENT DATA	5	4	2	4	4	2	16	24	15	5	3	1	85
OTHER	11	8	7	8	5	6	9	42	7	9	11	3	126
SATELLITE	4	5	5	5	15	5	42	41	24	3	0	3	152
UNIDENTIFIED	1	0	2	1	1	0	2	4	4	0	1	0	16
PENDING	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	2	6	4	2	17
TOTAL	45	35	43	36	41	33	135	262	104	70	55	28	887

## ASTRONOMICAL CASES

	JAN	FEB	MAR	APR	MAY	JUN	JUL	AUG	SEP	OCT	NOV	DEC	TOTAL
Meteors	6	6	8	2	2	4	14	26	13	6	9	5	101
Stars and Planets	3	1	3	2	0	5	10	55	16	20	13	7	135
Other	1a10	1b8	011	04	02	1c10	3d27	1e82	1a30	1f27	022	012	9245
TOTAL

(a) Solar Image (b) Moon (c) Sun (d) Reflected Moonlight, Parhelia, Moon (e) Reflected Moonlight (f) Comet Ikeya-Seki

## OTHER CATEGORY

	JAN	FEB	MAR	APR	MAY	JUN	JUL	AUG	SEP	OCT	NOV	DEC	TOTAL
Hoaxes, Hallucinations, Unreliable Reports and Psychological Causes	5	3	4	1	2	1	2	12	1	3	0	0	34
Missiles and Rockets 1 3	1	1	3	1	10
Reflections 1	1	2	1	1	1 7
Flares and Fireworks 1 1	1 1 4
Mirages and Inversions 2	3 5
Search and Ground Lights	2	1	0	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	2	0	9
Clouds and Contrails	1 1	1 3
Chaff 1	1
Birds	1	2 2 3	1	1	1 11
Physical Specimens 1c 1r	1w 3
Radar Analysis 1e 1g 3gmn 1m 6
Photo Analysis 2dl 1d	1j	2kj	5x	1j 12
Satellite Decay	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	8
Miscellaneous	2ab 2bf 1h 4sbbb 1h	3tuv 13
TOTAL	11	8	7	8	5	6	9	42	7	9	11	3	126

(a) Tracer Bullets (b) Misinterpretation of Conventional Objects (c) Metal Ball (d) Developer Smear (e) Anomalous Propagation (f) Kites (g) Electronic Counter Measures (h) Debris in Wind (j) No Image on Film (k) Poor Photo Process (l) Free Falling Object (m) False Targets (n) Weather Returns (p) Emulsion Flaws (r) Plastic Bags (s) Man on Ground (t) Lightning (u) Chemical Trails from Research Rocket (v) Missile Launch Activity (w) Gourd

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