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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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  • 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…
PB PENETRATION

At approximately 290200 EST Oct 75, AFOC relayed a report from Loring AFB, ME indicating that one unidentified helicopter, possibly two helicopters, had penetrated Loring AFB from Canadian territory with one helicopter landing briefly in proximity to a weapons storage area. Attempts to locate or identify the intruding helicopters by an Army National Guard helicopter were unsuccessful. Sightings of the unidentified helicopter(s) were limited to security guards. A similar incident with a single helicopter occurred during the early morning of 28 Oct 75. Permission has been granted by Canadian authorities to give pursuit into Canadian airspace if subsequent contact is effected by U.S. helicopters.

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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.