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.
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ACTION: NONE-D.C. INFO: U74UH RUCSHIJ2268 3040549 N TMS-UUUU—RUEFHOA. ? LJ00U ZNZ1 310549Z OCT 75 379BH CP WURTSMITH MI / JJ0065 ZEN/SAC CP :FORCE STATUS N/SAC CP LOGISTICS N/EAF CP FORCE STATUS N/8AF CP LOGISTICS EF HGA/CSAF EXAAA/USAF FWD OPS DIV FT RITCH CLASSIFIED JOPREP JIFFY 0C65/FFD340/IN/CPREP-3 BEELINE/76-02-01 0345Z CSC ADVISED CP THAT THE SECURITY GUARD AT BACK GATE NOTED AN UNIDENTIFIED AIRCRAFT FLYING LOW OVER THE SASE AT OPROX 0320Z. INITIAL REPORT TO CP SAID THAT AIRCRAFT HAS ALSO OBSERVED IN THE VICINITY OF WSA HOWEVER. LATER REPORTS SAID THAT AIRCRAFT OBSERVED MAY HAVE BEEN A KC-135 IN THE LOCAL TRAFFIC ATTERN. AT 0330Z KC-135 SAID THAT THEY HAD SKIN PAINTED ON ADAPTAN AIRCRAFT 8 1/2 MILES NE OF BASE BUT COULD NOT SPOT. THE AIRCRAFT VISUALLY. AT APPROX 0350Z THE KC-135 PICKED UP THE UNIDENTIFIED AIRCRAFT NE OF THE BASE AT APPROX 090/21 ON A VISUAL IMAGE 02 RUCSHIJ 2068 UNCLASSIFIED IN TING. KC-135 SAID HE SAW TWO AIRCRAFT IN A TRAIL FORMATION 0. APPROX 150 KIAS HEADING SOUTH. KC-135 SAID HE LOST CONTACT WITH THE FORMATION AT 0413Z WITH THE UNIDENTIFIED FORMATION ON THE KOSC 115/35 KC-135 TRACKED THE AIRCRAFT SOUTH TO THE MICH. THUMB. AREA AND BACK NORTH TO THE BASE AREA A NUMBER OF TIMES. EACH TIME THE KC-135 LOST VISUAL SIGHTING. KC-135 LANDED WHEN FUEL APPROACHED OI MINIMUS. INVESTIGATIONS IN PROGRESS. REPORTS TO FOLLOW AS INFO IS OBTAINED 42068 OTCUZYUW RUCSHIJ2068 3040649 0034-UUUU 3040648
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