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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…
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

Subject: Unidentified Flying Object Sighting

1. At 310805 received phoncon from AFOC: MG Lane, CG, Armanent and Development Test Center, Eglin AFB, Florida called and reported a UFO sighting from 0430 EST to 0600 EST. Security Policemen spotted lights from what they called a UFO near an Eglin radar site.

2. Photographs of the lights were taken. The Eglin Office of Innation has made a press release on the UFO.

3. The temperature inversion analysis indicated no significant temperature inversion at Eglin AFB at that time. The only inversion present was due to radiation from the surface to 2500 feet. The Eglin surface conditions were clear skies, visibility 10-14 miles, calm winds, shallow ground fog on the runway, and a surface temperature of 44 degree F.

FRED A. TREY7

Brigadier General, USAF

DISTRIBUTION:

DDO

ADDO

Deputy Director for

CCOC

Operations (NMCC)

West Sem

PA

AFOC

J-30

J-32

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.