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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.

  • p. 1 …A similar incident was reported at Loring the evening of 28 October 1975. C. D. ROBERTS…
  • p. 2 PB PENETRATION At approximately 290200 EST Oct 75, AFOC relayed a report from Loring AFB, ME…
  • p. 3 …The helicopter was at an altitude of 150 feet and penetrated Loring AFB. An attempt to…
  • p. 4 …The helicopter was at an altitude of 150 feet and penetrated Loring AFB. An attempt to…
  • p. 5 …42 BW CP LORING AFB 2911402 OCT 75; PHONCON DDO/INTERESTED ACTIVITIES)
  • p. 6 …42 BW CP LORING AFB 291140Z OCT 75; PHONCON NMCC/AFOC)
  • p. 8 …LORING AIR FORCE BASE MAINE AT 20172 A VISUAL SIGHTING OF AN UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT HAS REPORTED…
  • p. 14 …Army National Guard Helicopter Support for Loring AFB 1. At 292035 EST Oct 75, LTC Dyer…
  • p. 15 …AFOC, AOC, and Commander 42nd Bomb Wing, Loring AFB informing them of the approval to use…
  • p. 16 AS OF 010200 EST NOV 75 ## WEST NEM ## HELICOPTER SITED AT LORING At 312317 EST, a…
  • p. 17 HELICOPTER SIGHTED AT LORING At 312317 EST Oct, a visual sighting of an unidentified object was…
## 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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