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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 …Loring AFB Maine, in proximity to a weapons storage area. 2. An Army National Guard helo…
  • p. 2 …helicopter landing briefly in proximity to a weapons storage area. Attempts to locate or identify the…
  • p. 3 …At 290300 EST the helicopter was sighted over the weapons storage area and the Army National…
  • p. 4 …At 290300 EST the helicopter was sighted over the weapons storage area and the Army National…
  • p. 5 …At 290300 EST Oct 75, the unidentified helicopter was sighted over the weapons storage area. In…
  • p. 6 …At 290300 EST Oct 75, the unidentified helicopter was sighted over the weapons storage area. In…
  • p. 11 …IT IS OUR OPINION THAT THE UNKNOWN HELICOPTER HAS DEMONSTRATED A CLEAR INTENT IN THE WEAPONS…
  • p. 14 …the airspace in the vicinity of the weapons storage area at Loring AFB during their early…
  • p. 26 …THE OBJECT BUT AT THAT INSTANT HIS WEAPONS CONTROL PANEL WENT OFF AND HE LOST ALL…
  • p. 27 …THE F-4 CREW HAD REGAINED COMMUNICATIONS AND THE WEAPONS CONTROL PANEL AND WATCHED THE OBJECT…
At approximately 290100 EST Oct 75, an unidentified helicopter was sighted at an altitude of 150 feet at approximately 300 to 500 meters from a weapons storage area at Loring AFB, ME. At 290300 EST Oct 75, the unidentified helicopter was sighted over the weapons storage area. In both instances, an Army National Guard (NG) helicopter responded, but was unable to contact or identify the intruder. Procedures were implemented to track and identify the unidentified helicopter should it return during the evening of 29 Oct. The helicopter did not return that evening. Air Force is planning to utilize an Air Force helicopter from Plattsburgh AFB for future operations. (SOURCE: 42 BW CP LORING AFB 291140Z OCT 75; PHONCON NMCC/AFOC)

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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.