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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 …CJCS(5) CSA PA REP DJS(3) CNO WEST HEM DESK J-30 CSAF NWSB J…
  • p. 3 ## WEST HEM ## APB PENETRATION At approximately 290100 EST Oct 75, one unidentified helicopter was sighted 300…
  • p. 15 …5) CSA PA REP DJS(3) CNO WEST HEM DESK J-30 CSAF NWSB J-31…
  • p. 16 AS OF 010200 EST NOV 75 ## WEST NEM ## HELICOPTER SITED AT LORING At 312317 EST, a…
  • p. 27 …BUT AS THEY CIRCLED OFF TO THE WEST OF THE AREA THEY PICKED UP A VFRY…
  • p. 29 …Sightings had turned west, increased speed to 150 knots. Two tracks were apparent on height-finder…
  • p. 31 …ANALYSIS (U) In future UFO sightings, the WEST HEM Desk Officer will initiate telephone requests to…
  • p. 32 …The West Hem Desk Officer will act as the control officer for temperature inversion analysis requests…
  • p. 34 …DDO ADDO Deputy Director for CCOC Operations (NMCC) West Sem PA AFOC J-30 J-32
  • p. 35 …with a reddish tint, moving east to west. Personnel were located at separate locations on top…
# 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

J-30

J-31

Distribution:

J-32

J-32A

J-38

DDO

ADDO

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.