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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 # N M C C # THE NATIONAL MILITARY COMMAND CENTER WASHINGTON. D.C. 20301 MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD…
  • p. 14 …identification only. b. Apprehension by U.S. personnel not authorized. c. No crossing of international borders.
  • p. 15 …for the employment of the NG helicopter. C. D. ROBERTS, JR. Brigadier General, USMC Deputy Director…
  • p. 18 …D.C. 20301 MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD Subject: Low Flying Aircraft/Helicopter Sightings at Wurtsmith AFB, MI…
  • p. 20 …NONE-D.C. INFO: U74UH RUCSHIJ2268 3040549 N TMS-UUUU—RUEFHOA. ? LJ00U ZNZ1 310549Z OCT 75…
  • p. 25 …JCS INFO RIFHC/SFCSTATF WASH DC RUFAIIE/C. I A. RUFOTAHZN94 WASH DC RHFADVU/UHTTF HOUSE…
  • p. 26 …RADAR SCOPE AND STAYED AT 25 NM. C. THE SIZE OF THE RADAR RETURN WAS COMPARABLE…
  • p. 29 …SAC site C-1, 10NM SE of Stanford, Montana, reported visual sightings of unknown objects. 0420…
  • p. 30 …SAC site C-1 still had a visual sighting on objects. 4. NORAD stated that Northern…
  • p. 32 # NMCC THE NATIONAL MILITARY COMMAND CENTER WASHINGTON, D.C. 20301 MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD Subject: Requests for…
  • p. 33 # N M.C.C # THE NATIONAL MILITARY COMMAND CENTER WASHINGTON, D.C. 20301 MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD…
  • p. 34 # N M C C MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Subject: Unidentified Flying Object Sighting 1. At 310805…
  • p. 35 …top of the mountain at Site R. c. 0300 - Desk Sgt at Site R went to…
  • p. 38 …12 245 (a) Solar Image (b) Moon (c) Sun (d) Reflected Moonlight, Parhelia, Moon (e) Reflected…
# NMCC THE NATIONAL MILITARY COMMAND CENTER WASHINGTON, D.C. 20301

MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD

Subject: Requests for Temperature Inversion Analysis

1. LTC Schmidt, representing Air Force Global Weather Central (AFGWC), visited the NMCC at 131500 EST to discuss arrangements to implement the procurement of weather information desired by CJCS, which is the subject of DDO Environmental Services memo of 13 November 1975. The following agreements with LTC Schmidt were reached:

a. The West Hem Desk Officer will act as the control officer for temperature inversion analysis requests initiated by the NMCC. These requests will be made in conjunction with sightings of unusual phenomenon along the northern US border.

b. Each telephone request will be serialized, i.e., (TIA #1, etc.) and directed to the duty officer at AFGWC, autovon 866-1661 or 271-2586. AFGWC-will provide the requested analyses by telephone followed up by a priority message.

c. A record of the serialized requests/responses will be maintained by the West Hem Desk Officer.

C. D. ROBERTS, JR.

C. D. ROBERTS, JR. Brigadier General, USMC Deputy Director for Operations, NMCC

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DDO

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CCOC

West Hem Desk

WRMCCS Ops & Eval Div

Cases discussed

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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.