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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.

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  • p. 5 …At 290300 EST Oct 75, the unidentified helicopter was sighted over the weapons storage area. In…
  • p. 15 …the Army NG helicopter and crew on "Full Time Training Duty" (FTTD). In essence, the NG…
  • p. 20 …AREA AND BACK NORTH TO THE BASE AREA A NUMBER OF TIMES. EACH TIME THE KC…
  • p. 21 …RAPCON showed several objects on radar at the same time. A tanker was dispatched to the…
  • p. 26 …THERE WERE NO HELICOPTERS AIRBORNE AT THAT TIME. AFTER HE TOLD THE CITIZEN IT WAS ONLY…
  • p. 27 …DURING THE TIME THAT THE OBJECT PASSED OVER THE F-4 THE TOUFR DID NOT HAVE…
  • p. 29 …At the time of the initial voice report personnel at Malmstrom AFB and SAC sites K1…
  • p. 30 …of the incidents described above. They had not received any information prior to this time. 6…
  • p. 34 …The temperature inversion analysis indicated no significant temperature inversion at Eglin AFB at that time. The…
  • p. 35 …The following events summarize the reports (times are approximate). 2. 0130 - Civilians reported a UFO sighting…
  • p. 40 …Give the date, hour and minute when the meteor appeared; also kind of time used. (4…
## 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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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.