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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 …in locating the unidentified helo(s). 3. NORAD was informed of the incident by SAC, requested…
  • p. 22 …Two interceptors scrambled from 24th NORAD Region failed to make contact with the UFO's. (U…
  • p. 24 …A follow-up with NORAD at 090430 EST provided no additional information. (LTG Smith indicated his…
  • p. 29 …0308 EST FONECON from NORAD Command Director: at 0253 EST Malmstrom AFB Montana received seven radar…
  • p. 30 …0522 EST FONECON with NORAD Command Director: At 0405 EST SAC Site L-5 observed one…
# DDO UPDATE

AS OF 132200 EST NOV 75

## UFO ANALYSIS

(U) In future UFO sightings, the WEST HEM Desk Officer will initiate telephone requests to the Senior Duty Officer at the Air Force Global Weather Central (AFGWC) for a temperature inversion analysis in the vicinity of unusual sightings. The telephone response by AFGWC will be followed with a priority message. (SOURCE: NMCC MFR 132035 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.