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.
“Sightings”26 pages
PAGF 02. 25.7 0213 THAT THEY HAD SEEN STRANGE OBJECTS IN THE SKY. SOME REPORTED A KIND OF BIRD-LIKE OBJECT WHILE OTHERS REPORTED A HELICOPTER WITH A LIGHT ON. THERE WERE NO HELICOPTERS AIRBORNE AT THAT TIME. AFTER HE TOLD THE CITIZEN IT WAS ONLY STARS. AND HAD TALKED TO MEHRABAD TOWER HE PRECIOED TO LOOK FOR HIMSELF. HE NOTICED AN OBJECT IN THE SKY SIMILAR TO A STAR BIGGER AND BRIGHTER. HE DECIDED TO SCPAMRLF AN F-4 FROM SHAHPOKHT AFB TO INVESTIGATE. RIGGER AND BRIGHTER. HF DECIDED TO SCPAMRLF AN F-4 FROM SHAHPOKHI AFR TO INVESTIGATE. R. AT 0130 HRS ON THE 19TH THE F-4 TOOK OFF AND PROCEDED TO A POINT ABOUT 40 NM NORTH OF TEHPAN. DIF TO ITS BRILLIANCE THE OBJECT WAS FASTLY VISIBLE FROM 70 MILFS AWAY. AS THE F-4 APPROACHED A RANGE OF 25 NM HE LOST. ALL INSTRUMENTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS (UHF AND INTERCOM). HF RPOKF OFF THE INTERCEPT AND HF AFDN RACK TO SHAHROKHI. WHEN THE F-4 TURNED AWAY FROM THE OBJECT AND APPARENTLY WAS NO LONGER A THREAT TO IT THE AIRCRAFT REGATNED ALL INSTRUMENTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS. AT 0140 HRS A SECOND F-4 WAS LAUNCHED. THE BACKSFATTER ACQUIRED A RADAR LOCK ON AT 27 NM. 12 O'CLOCK HIGH POSITION WITH THE VC (RATE OF CLOSURE) AT 150 NMPH. A HF RANGE DECREASED TO 75 NM THE OBJECT MOVED AWAY AT A SPED THAT WAS VISIBLE ON THE RADAR SCOPE AND STAYED AT 25 NM. C. THE SIZE OF THE RADAR RETURN WAS COMPARABLE TO THAT OF A 707 TANKER. THE VISUAL SIZE OF THE OBJECT WAS DIFFICULT TO DISCERN BECAUSE OF ITS INTENSE BRILLIANCE. THE LIGHT THAT IT GAVF OFF WAS THAT OF FLASHING STROBE LIGHTS ARRANGED IN A RECTANGULAR PATTERN AND ALTERNATING BLUE. GREEN, RED AND ORANGE IN COLOR. THE SEQUENCE OF THE LIGHTS WAS SO FAST THAT ALL THE COLORS COULD BE SEEN AT ONCE. THE OBJECT AND THE PURSUING F-4 CONTINUED ON A COURSE TO THE SOUTH OF TEHRAN WHEN ANOTHER BRIGHTLY LIGHTED OBJECT ESTIMATED TO BE ONE HALF TO ONE THIRD THE APPARENT SIZE OF THE MOON. CAME OUT OF THE ORIGINAL OBJECT. THIS SECOND OBJECT HEADED STRAIGHT TO ARD THE F-4 AT A VERY FAST RATE OF SPEED. THE PILOT ATTEMPTED TO FIRE AN AIM-9 MISSILE AT THE OBJECT BUT AT THAT INSTANT HIS WEAPONS CONTROL PANEL WENT OFF AND HE LOST ALL COMMUNICATIONS (UHF AND INTERPHONE). AT THIS POINT THE PILOT INITIATED A TURN AND NFGATIVE G DIVE TO GET AWAY. AS HF TURNED THE OBJEAZ FLL IN TRAIL AT WHAT APPEARED TO BE ABOUT 3-4 NM. AR HE CONTINUED IN HIS TURN AWAY FROM THE PRIMARY OBJECT THE SECOND OBJECT WENT TO THE INSIDE OF HIS TURN THEN RETURNED TO THE PRIMARY OBJECT FOR A PERFECT REJOIN. SHORTLY AFTER THE SECOND OBJECT JOINED UP WITH THE ARY OBJECT ANOTHER OBJECT APPEARED TO COME OUT OF THE YITRUITY UNCLASSIFIED
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