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Office of the Secretary of Defense · 40 pages · text by OCR

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.

  • p. 1 …CJCS(5) CSA PA REP DJS(3) CNO WEST HEM DESK J-30 CSAF NWSB J…
  • p. 3 ## WEST HEM ## APB PENETRATION At approximately 290100 EST Oct 75, one unidentified helicopter was sighted 300…
  • p. 15 …5) CSA PA REP DJS(3) CNO WEST HEM DESK J-30 CSAF NWSB J-31…
  • p. 16 AS OF 010200 EST NOV 75 ## WEST NEM ## HELICOPTER SITED AT LORING At 312317 EST, a…
  • p. 27 …BUT AS THEY CIRCLED OFF TO THE WEST OF THE AREA THEY PICKED UP A VFRY…
  • p. 29 …Sightings had turned west, increased speed to 150 knots. Two tracks were apparent on height-finder…
  • p. 31 …ANALYSIS (U) In future UFO sightings, the WEST HEM Desk Officer will initiate telephone requests to…
  • p. 32 …The West Hem Desk Officer will act as the control officer for temperature inversion analysis requests…
  • p. 34 …DDO ADDO Deputy Director for CCOC Operations (NMCC) West Sem PA AFOC J-30 J-32
  • p. 35 …with a reddish tint, moving east to west. Personnel were located at separate locations on top…
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# 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.