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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…
# NMCC

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

MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD

Subject: Low Flying Aircraft/Helicopter Sightings at Wurtsmith AFB, MI.

1. The SAC Command Post notified the NMCC of reported low flying aircraft/helicopter sightings at Wurtsmith AFB, Michigan at 302342 EST.

2. The attached OPREP-3s give a summary of the reported sightings.

Brigadier General, USAF

Attachments a/s

Deputy Director for

Operations (NMCC)

Distribution:

J-30

J-31

DDO (NMCC)

ADDO (NMCC)

CCOC (NMCC)

WHEM DESK (NMCC)

Cases discussed

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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.