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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.

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“The Times”11 pages

  • p. 5 …At 290300 EST Oct 75, the unidentified helicopter was sighted over the weapons storage area. In…
  • p. 15 …the Army NG helicopter and crew on "Full Time Training Duty" (FTTD). In essence, the NG…
  • 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 …THERE WERE 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 TOUFR 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…
EVENT:	DATE/TIME OF EVENT:
Identified Helicopter Intrusion	30/2255E Oct 1975
TION:	TIME REPORTED TO AFOC:
Hurtsmith AFB, MI	30/2327E Oct 1975

OFFICE	PERSON	TIME	TIME	OFFICE	PERSON	TIME	TIME
SAFOS	2	/ AFLG	1
SAFUS	1	/	/	AFLGY	1
SAFOSA	1	/	/	AFPD	1
SAFDI	1	/	/	AFPDO	1
SAFLL	3	/	030	AFIG	1	0330
AFCC	1	/	030	AFIGI	1
AFCV	2	/	030	AFISC	-
AFXO	2	/	/	AFOSI	1	0330
AFXOX	1	/	/	AFSP	1
AFXOO	3 AFDP	1
AFXOOS	1 AFDPXJO1
AFXOOC	1 AFLC	-
AFXOOCO	1 NGS	1
AIRPL	1 (XCSC)	/	E.A.	0334
 XCSC	/	D.Y.E.	0374
 AFIN	/	/
 XCSS	/	/

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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.