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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.

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  • 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…
## MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD

Subject: Reports of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)

1. At approximately 0345 EDT, the ANMCC called to indicate they had received several reports of UFO's in the vicinity of Fort Ritchie. The following events summarize the reports (times are approximate).

2. 0130 - Civilians reported a UFO sighting near Mt. Airy, Md. This information was obtained via a call from the National Aeronautics Board (?) to the Fort Ritchie Military Police.

b. 0255 - Two separate patrols from Site R reported sighting 3 oblong objects with a reddish tint, moving east to west. Personnel were located at separate locations on top of the mountain at Site R.

c. 0300 - Desk Sgt at Site R went to the top of the Site R mountain and observed a UFO over the ammo storage area at 100-200 yards altitude.

d. 0345 - An Army Police Sgt on the way to work at Site R reported sighting a UFO in the vicinity of Site R.

2. ANMCC was requested to have each individual write a statement on the sightings. One individual stated the object was about the size of a 2 1/2 ton truck.

3. Based on a JCS memorandum, subject: Temperature Inversion Analysis, dated 13 November 1975, the NMCC contacted the Air Force Global Weather Central. The Duty Officer, LTC OVERBY, reported that the Dulles International Airport observations showed two temperature inversions existed at the time of the

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