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This assortment of records released by the Office of the Secretary of Defense collects 1975 National Military Command Center memoranda and message traffic. They cover unidentified helicopters and low-flying aircraft seen over weapons storage areas at Loring AFB, Maine, and Wurtsmith AFB, Michigan, along with radar and visual UFO contacts at Malmstrom AFB, Montana. The file also contains a 1976 defense attaché report on F-4 intercepts of a UFO over Tehran and Air Force UFO statistics for 1965.

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“Sightings”26 pages

  • p. 1 …At 290200 EST AFOC informed NNCC that an unidentified helicopter, possibly two, had been sighted flying…
  • p. 2 …an Army National Guard helicopter were unsuccessful. Sightings of the unidentified helicopter(s) were limited to…
  • p. 3 ## WEST HEM ## APB PENETRATION At approximately 290100 EST Oct 75, one unidentified helicopter was sighted 300…
  • p. 4 AFB PENETRATION At approximately 290100 EST Oct 75, one unidentified helicopter was sighted 300 to 500…
  • p. 5 ## DDO UPDATE ## AFB PENETRATION At approximately 290100 EST Oct 75, an unidentified helicopter was sighted at…
  • p. 6 At approximately 290100 EST Oct 75, an unidentified helicopter was sighted at an altitude of 150…
  • p. 8 …LORING AIR FORCE BASE MAINE AT 20172 A VISUAL SIGHTING OF AN UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT HAS REPORTED…
  • p. 9 …THREE SECURITY POLICE PERSONNEL REPORTED SIGHTING AND HEARING A HELICopter over the DACE PROPER AT APPROXIMATELY…
  • p. 11 …THE UNKNOWN AIRCRAFT, WITH BOTH HELICOPTERS IN SIGHT, BUT VISUAL ACQUISITION HAS NOT MADE. DURING THIS…
  • p. 16 …AT LORING At 312317 EST, a visual sighting of an unidentified object was reported 4 nautical…
  • p. 17 HELICOPTER SIGHTED AT LORING At 312317 EST Oct, a visual sighting of an unidentified object was…
  • p. 18 …Low Flying Aircraft/Helicopter Sightings at Wurtsmith AFB, MI. 1. The SAC Command Post notified the…
  • p. 20 …EACH TIME THE KC-135 LOST VISUAL SIGHTING. KC-135 LANDED WHEN FUEL APPROACHED OI MINIMUS…
  • p. 21 ## DDO UPDATE ## LOW FLYING AIRCRAFT/HELICOPTER SIGHTINGS (U) The SAC Senior Controller notified the NMCC at…
  • p. 22 ## UFO SIGHTING (U) From 080253 EST Nov 75 to 080420 EST Nov 75, Malmstrom AFB MT…
  • p. 24 ## UFO SIGHTING (U) Unknown sightings vicinity Malmstrom AFB, MT (See MFR). A follow-up with NORAD…
  • p. 25 …REPORTED UFO SIGHTING. 32 (11) NA 4. (11) 19820 SEP 76 5. (U) TFHRAN IRAN: 20…
  • p. 28 …Nov morning briefing, indicated that when UFO sightings are reported, the NMCC should ask for temperature…
  • p. 29 …SAC site K3 reported sightings between 300' and 1,000' while site L-4 reported sightings…
  • p. 30 …SAC site C-1 still had a visual sighting on objects. 4. NORAD stated that Northern…
  • p. 31 # DDO UPDATE AS OF 132200 EST NOV 75 ## UFO ANALYSIS (U) In future UFO sightings, the…
  • p. 32 …These requests will be made in conjunction with sightings of unusual phenomenon along the northern US…
  • p. 34 …Unidentified Flying Object Sighting 1. At 310805 received phoncon from AFOC: MG Lane, CG, Armanent and…
  • p. 35 …0130 - Civilians reported a UFO sighting near Mt. Airy, Md. This information was obtained via a…
  • p. 36 …Reports of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) alleged sightings. The first extended from the surface to 1…
  • p. 37 …557 591 474 399 562 6817 ASTRONOMICAL SIGHTINGS Meteors 70 92 79 88 179 168 100…
# N M C C

# THE NATIONAL MILITARY COMMAND CENTER WASHINGTON. D.C. 20301

MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD

Subject: AFB Penetration

1. At 290200 EST AFOC informed NNCC that an unidentified helicopter, possibly two, had been sighted flying low over Loring AFB Maine, in proximity to a weapons storage area.

2. An Army National Guard helo was called in to assist in locating the unidentified helo(s).

3. NORAD was informed of the incident by SAC, requested and recieved authority from Canadian officials to proceed into Canadian airspace if necessary to locate the intruder.

4. At 0404 SAC Command Center informed NMCC that the army helo assisting on the scene had not sighted the unidentified helo(s)

5. A similar incident was reported at Loring the evening of 28 October 1975.

C. D. ROBERTS, JR. Brigadier General, USMC Deputy Director for Operations (NMCC)

Distribution:
CJCS(5)	CSA	PA REP
DJS(3)	CNO	WEST HEM DESK
J-30	CSAF	NWSB
J-31	CMC	NMCC BRIEFER
J-32	CH,WHMCCS OPS&EVAL DIV
J-32A	DDO(NMCC)
J-33	ADDO(NMCC)
J-34	CCOC(NMCC)
J-35	DIA REP FOR NMIC
J-38	NSA REP
	CIA REP

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FOIA release, from the osd collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 40 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.