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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 # N M C C # THE NATIONAL MILITARY COMMAND CENTER WASHINGTON. D.C. 20301 MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD…
  • p. 14 …identification only. b. Apprehension by U.S. personnel not authorized. c. No crossing of international borders.
  • p. 15 …for the employment of the NG helicopter. C. D. ROBERTS, JR. Brigadier General, USMC Deputy Director…
  • p. 18 …D.C. 20301 MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD Subject: Low Flying Aircraft/Helicopter Sightings at Wurtsmith AFB, MI…
  • p. 20 …NONE-D.C. INFO: U74UH RUCSHIJ2268 3040549 N TMS-UUUU—RUEFHOA. ? LJ00U ZNZ1 310549Z OCT 75…
  • p. 25 …JCS INFO RIFHC/SFCSTATF WASH DC RUFAIIE/C. I A. RUFOTAHZN94 WASH DC RHFADVU/UHTTF HOUSE…
  • p. 26 …RADAR SCOPE AND STAYED AT 25 NM. C. THE SIZE OF THE RADAR RETURN WAS COMPARABLE…
  • p. 29 …SAC site C-1, 10NM SE of Stanford, Montana, reported visual sightings of unknown objects. 0420…
  • p. 30 …SAC site C-1 still had a visual sighting on objects. 4. NORAD stated that Northern…
  • p. 32 # NMCC THE NATIONAL MILITARY COMMAND CENTER WASHINGTON, D.C. 20301 MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD Subject: Requests for…
  • p. 33 # N M.C.C # THE NATIONAL MILITARY COMMAND CENTER WASHINGTON, D.C. 20301 MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD…
  • p. 34 # N M C C MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Subject: Unidentified Flying Object Sighting 1. At 310805…
  • p. 35 …top of the mountain at Site R. c. 0300 - Desk Sgt at Site R went to…
  • p. 38 …12 245 (a) Solar Image (b) Moon (c) Sun (d) Reflected Moonlight, Parhelia, Moon (e) Reflected…
## UFO SIGHTING

(U) From 080253 EST Nov 75 to 080420 EST Nov 75, Malmstrom AFB MT and four SAC sites reported a series of visual and radar contacts with unidentified flying objects. Several reports from the same locations included jet engine sounds associated with the observed bright lights. Two interceptors scrambled from 24th NORAD Region failed to make contact with the UFO's.

(U) The UFO sightings occurred on an extremely clear night. Visibility was 45 miles. Although northern lights will cause phenomena similar to the received reports, weather services indicated no possibility of northern lights during the period in question. (SOURCE: NMCC MFR 080600 EST NOV 75.

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