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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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“The Times”11 pages

  • p. 5 …At 290300 EST Oct 75, the unidentified helicopter was sighted over the weapons storage area. In…
  • p. 15 …the Army NG helicopter and crew on "Full Time Training Duty" (FTTD). In essence, the NG…
  • p. 20 …AREA AND BACK NORTH TO THE BASE AREA A NUMBER OF TIMES. EACH TIME THE KC…
  • p. 21 …RAPCON showed several objects on radar at the same time. A tanker was dispatched to the…
  • p. 26 …THERE WERE NO HELICOPTERS AIRBORNE AT THAT TIME. AFTER HE TOLD THE CITIZEN IT WAS ONLY…
  • p. 27 …DURING THE TIME THAT THE OBJECT PASSED OVER THE F-4 THE TOUFR DID NOT HAVE…
  • p. 29 …At the time of the initial voice report personnel at Malmstrom AFB and SAC sites K1…
  • p. 30 …of the incidents described above. They had not received any information prior to this time. 6…
  • p. 34 …The temperature inversion analysis indicated no significant temperature inversion at Eglin AFB at that time. The…
  • p. 35 …The following events summarize the reports (times are approximate). 2. 0130 - Civilians reported a UFO sighting…
  • p. 40 …Give the date, hour and minute when the meteor appeared; also kind of time used. (4…
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PATC7Y11H RJEFJC59717 7H R10 HTMS-CCCC—RJFFHQA-'

7NY

2 7308107 SEP 76

FH JCS

INFO RIFHC/SFCSTATF WASH DC RUFAIIE/C. I A.

RUFOTAHZN94 WASH DC

RHFADVU/UHTTF HOUSE·WASH DC

BUFFHOLD/CSAF WASH DC

RUIFN E A A / C N O WASH DC

PHEADS D/CRA WASH DC

3. 7305307 <FP 75

FM USDAO FHRAN

TO RUFKICS/DIA. WASHDC

INFO RUFKUCS/SECDEF DEPSECDEF WASHDC

RUERRAA/CONIDFASTFOR

R' FCA/CINGUSAFE LINDSEY AS:GE/INCF

R ALR/CINGUSAFE RAHSTEIN AR GE/INOCN

RU NAAA/ FIIDAC VAIHTNGEN GER

RUSNAAA/URCINCEUR·VAIHINGEN GER/E.CJ-2

AT

EANFIDENTIFIE 12.35 SEP.76

THIS IS 19 6 806 0139.75

1. (11) IRAN

7. REPORTED UFO SIGHTING.

32 (11) NA

4. (11) 19820 SEP 76

5. (U) TFHRAN IRAN: 20 SEP. 76

6. (1) F-6

1F. (11) 6 846 0008 (NOTE RO COMMENTS)

8. (11) 5 746 0139.76

9. (11) 775EP 76

10: (11) NU

11. (U) INITIATE IPSP PT-1040

12. (11) USDAO. TEHRAN. IRAN

13. (U) FRANK B. MCKENZTE COL USAF :DA $ \pi $

15. THIS REPORT FORWARDS INFORMATION CONCERNING THE SIGHTING OF AN UFO IN IRAN ON 19 SEPTEMBER 1976 AT ABOUT 1230 AM ON 19 SEP 76 THE RECEIVED FOUR TELEPHONE CAL

RECEIVED FOUR TELEPHONE CALLS

FROM CITIVENS LIVING IN THE SHEHIRAN AREA OF TEHRAN: SAYING

UNCLASSIFIED

PRIORITY

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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.