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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 …Loring AFB Maine, in proximity to a weapons storage area. 2. An Army National Guard helo…
  • p. 2 …helicopter landing briefly in proximity to a weapons storage area. Attempts to locate or identify the…
  • p. 3 …At 290300 EST the helicopter was sighted over the weapons storage area and the Army National…
  • p. 4 …At 290300 EST the helicopter was sighted over the weapons storage area and the Army National…
  • p. 5 …At 290300 EST Oct 75, the unidentified helicopter was sighted over the weapons storage area. In…
  • p. 6 …At 290300 EST Oct 75, the unidentified helicopter was sighted over the weapons storage area. In…
  • p. 11 …IT IS OUR OPINION THAT THE UNKNOWN HELICOPTER HAS DEMONSTRATED A CLEAR INTENT IN THE WEAPONS…
  • p. 14 …the airspace in the vicinity of the weapons storage area at Loring AFB during their early…
  • p. 26 …THE OBJECT BUT AT THAT INSTANT HIS WEAPONS CONTROL PANEL WENT OFF AND HE LOST ALL…
  • p. 27 …THE F-4 CREW HAD REGAINED COMMUNICATIONS AND THE WEAPONS CONTROL PANEL AND WATCHED THE OBJECT…
## 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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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.