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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.
“Sightings”26 pages
- p. 1 …At 290200 EST AFOC informed NNCC that an unidentified helicopter, possibly two, had been sighted flying…
- p. 2 …an Army National Guard helicopter were unsuccessful. Sightings of the unidentified helicopter(s) were limited to…
- p. 3 ## WEST HEM
## APB PENETRATION
At approximately 290100 EST Oct 75, one unidentified helicopter was sighted 300…
- p. 4 AFB PENETRATION
At approximately 290100 EST Oct 75, one unidentified helicopter was sighted 300 to 500…
- p. 5 ## DDO UPDATE
## AFB PENETRATION
At approximately 290100 EST Oct 75, an unidentified helicopter was sighted at…
- p. 6 At approximately 290100 EST Oct 75, an unidentified helicopter was sighted at an altitude of 150…
- p. 8 …LORING AIR FORCE BASE MAINE
AT 20172 A VISUAL SIGHTING OF AN UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT HAS REPORTED…
- p. 9 …THREE SECURITY POLICE PERSONNEL REPORTED SIGHTING AND HEARING A HELICopter over the DACE PROPER AT APPROXIMATELY…
- p. 11 …THE UNKNOWN AIRCRAFT, WITH BOTH HELICOPTERS IN
SIGHT, BUT VISUAL ACQUISITION
HAS NOT MADE. DURING THIS…
- p. 16 …AT LORING
At 312317 EST, a visual sighting of an unidentified object was reported 4 nautical…
- p. 17 HELICOPTER SIGHTED AT LORING
At 312317 EST Oct, a visual sighting of an unidentified object was…
- p. 18 …Low Flying Aircraft/Helicopter Sightings at Wurtsmith AFB, MI.
1. The SAC Command Post notified the…
- p. 20 …EACH TIME THE KC-135 LOST VISUAL SIGHTING. KC-135 LANDED WHEN
FUEL APPROACHED OI MINIMUS…
- p. 21 ## DDO UPDATE
## LOW FLYING AIRCRAFT/HELICOPTER SIGHTINGS
(U) The SAC Senior Controller notified the NMCC at…
- p. 22 ## UFO SIGHTING
(U) From 080253 EST Nov 75 to 080420 EST Nov 75, Malmstrom AFB MT…
- p. 24 ## UFO SIGHTING
(U) Unknown sightings vicinity Malmstrom AFB, MT (See MFR). A follow-up with NORAD…
- p. 25 …REPORTED UFO SIGHTING.
32 (11) NA
4. (11) 19820 SEP 76
5. (U) TFHRAN IRAN: 20…
- p. 28 …Nov morning briefing, indicated that when UFO sightings are reported, the NMCC should ask for temperature…
- p. 29 …SAC site K3 reported sightings between 300' and 1,000' while site L-4 reported sightings…
- p. 30 …SAC site C-1 still had a visual sighting on objects.
4. NORAD stated that Northern…
- p. 31 # DDO UPDATE
AS OF 132200 EST NOV 75
## UFO ANALYSIS
(U) In future UFO sightings, the…
- p. 32 …These requests will be made in conjunction with sightings of unusual phenomenon along the northern US…
- p. 34 …Unidentified Flying Object Sighting
1. At 310805 received phoncon from AFOC: MG Lane, CG, Armanent and…
- p. 35 …0130 - Civilians reported a UFO sighting near Mt. Airy, Md. This information was obtained via a…
- p. 36 …Reports of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)
alleged sightings. The first extended from the surface to 1…
- p. 37 …557 591 474 399 562 6817
ASTRONOMICAL SIGHTINGS
Meteors 70 92 79 88 179 168 100…
## STATISTICS FOR 1965
JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC TOTAL
ASTRONOMICAL 10 8 11 4 2 10 27 82 30 27 22 12 245
AIRCRAFT 11 8 14 11 14 7 32 61 20 13 14 5 210
BALLOON 3 2 1 3 0 3 7 6 2 7 0 2 36
INSUFFICIENT DATA 5 4 2 4 4 2 16 24 15 5 3 1 85
OTHER 11 8 7 8 5 6 9 42 7 9 11 3 126
SATELLITE 4 5 5 5 15 5 42 41 24 3 0 3 152
UNIDENTIFIED 1 0 2 1 1 0 2 4 4 0 1 0 16
PENDING 0/45 0/35 1/43 0/36 0/41 0/33 0/135 2/262 2/104 6/70 4/55 2/28 17/887
TOTAL
## ASTRONOMICAL CASES
JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC TOTAL
Meteors 6 6 8 2 2 4 14 26 13 6 9 5 101
Stars and Planets 3 1 3 2 0 5 10 55 16 20 13 7 135
Other 1a 1b 0 0 0 1c 3d 1e 1a 1f 0 0 9
TOTAL 10 8 11 4 2 10 27 82 30 27 22 12 245
(a) Solar Image (b) Moon (c) Sun (d) Reflected Moonlight, Parhelia, Moon (e) Reflected Moonlight (f) Comet Ikeya-Seki
## OTHER CATEGORY
JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC TOTAL
Hoaxes, Hallucinations, Unreliable Reports and Psychological Causes 5 3 4 1 2 1 2 12 1 3 0 0 34
Missiles and Rockets 1 3 1 1 3 1 10
Reflections 1 1 2 1 1 1 7
Flares and Fireworks 1 1 1 1 4
Mirages and Inversions 2 3 5
Search and Ground Lights 2 1 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 0 9
Clouds and Contrails 1 1 1 3
Chaff 1 1
Birds 1 2 2 3 1 1 1 11
Physical Specimens 1c 1r 1w 3
Radar Analysis 1e 1g 3gmn 1m 6
Photo Analysis 2dl 1d 1j 2kj 5x 1j 12
Satellite Decay 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 1 8
Miscellaneous 2ab 2bf 1h 4sbbb 1h 3tuv 13
TOTAL 11 8 7 8 5 6 9 42 7 9 11 3 126
(a) Tracer Bullets (b) Misinterpretation of Conventional Objects (c) Metal Ball (d) Developer Smear (e) Anomalous Propagation (f) Kites (g) Electronic Counter Measures (h) Debris in Wind (j) No Image on Film (k) Poor Photo Process (l) Free Falling Object (m) False Targets (n) Weather Returns (p) Emulsion Flaws (r) Plastic Bags (s) Man on Ground (t) Lightning (u) Chemical Trails from Research Rocket (v) Missile Launch Activity (w) Gourd
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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.