Documents / FOIA release
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.
“Loring”11 pages
NO CONTACT. THE UNKNOWN AIRCRAFT DID NOT DISPLAY LIGHTING. GROUND PERSONNEL WERE AT LE TO DIRECT THE AIR GUARD HELICOPTER TO WITHIN 100FT OF THE UNKNOWN AIRCRAFT, WITH BOTH HELICOPTERS IN SIGHT, BUT VISUAL ACQUISITION HAS NOT MADE. DURING THIS PERIOD A KC-133 HAS ORBITING AT 5032F1 NOL TO AID IN IDENTIFICATION AND TO ACT AS RADIO RELAY. AT 293022Z ALL CONTACT HAS LOST. IT IS OUR OPINION THAT THE UNKNOWN HELICOPTER HAS DEMONSTRATED A CLEAR INTENT IN THE WEAPONS STORAGE AREA, IS SMART AND A MOST CAPABLE AVIATOR. LOCAL SECURITY HAS BEEN INCREASED. WE ANTICIPATE FURTHER INCIDEN AFFORDINGLY, WE WILL REQUEST THE CONTINUED PRESENCE OF AIR GUARD HELICOPTERS. WE PLAN TO PURSUE INTO CANADA IF NECESSARY. WE HAVE COORDINATED WITH MAINE STATE POLICE AND THE ROYAL CANADI ROUNDED POLICE AND HAVE BEEN ASSURED OF THE COMPLETE COOPERATION OF BOTH. R.E.P.P. WILL RESPOND TO ANY LANDING SITE IN CANADIAN TERRITORY. LOCAL SECURITY POLICE ABOARD AIR GUARD HELICOPTER HAVE BEEN OPERATED TO USE DISCRETION AND AWAIT R.E.P.P. ARRIVAL FOR ANY APPREHENSION IN CANADIAN TERRITORY COD 35 DEC 81
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.