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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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“temperature inversion”5 pages

p. 28 …ask for temperature gradients in the area (i.e., for possible aloft inversions). The CJCS also…
p. 31 …Force Global Weather Central (AFGWC) for a temperature inversion analysis in the vicinity of unusual sightings…
p. 32 …Requests for Temperature Inversion Analysis 1. LTC Schmidt, representing Air Force Global Weather Central (AFGWC), visited…
p. 34 …The temperature inversion analysis indicated no significant temperature inversion at Eglin AFB at that time. The…
p. 35 …Temperature Inversion Analysis, dated 13 November 1975, the NMCC contacted the Air Force Global Weather Central…

FROM: AF/XCOCOA LOG SUP # 1-G

EVENT:	DATE/TIME OF EVENT:
Identified Helicopter Intrusion	30/2255E Oct 1975
TION:	TIME REPORTED TO AFOC:
Hurtsmith AFB, MI	30/2327E Oct 1975

OFFICE	PERSON	TIME	TIME	OFFICE	PERSON	TIME	TIME
SAFOS	2	/ AFLG	1
SAFUS	1	/	/	AFLGY	1
SAFOSA	1	/	/	AFPD	1
SAF0I	1	/	0	AFBD	1
SAFLL	3	/	32	AFIG	1	0330
AFCC	1	/	0	AFIGI	1
AFCV	2	/	/	AFISC	-
AFXO	2	/	/	AFOSI	1	0330
AFXOX	1	/	/	AFSP	1
AFXOO	3 AFDP	1
AFXOOS	1 AFDPXJG1
AFXOOC	1 AFLC	-
AFXOCCO	1 NGS	1
A.RPL	1 GXCCC	/	E.A	0330
 XCSC	/	DYER	0330
 AFIN	/
 XCSS	/

Cases discussed

Loring AFB Incursions and the 1975 Northern Tier Overflights 1975
unidentified helicopter... penetrated Loring AFB... weapons storage area, Oct 75; Wurtsmith and Malmstrom sightings
The 1976 Tehran UFO Incident (Dogfight over Tehran) 1976
USDAO Tehran: sighting of an UFO in Iran on 19 September 1976, F-4 scrambled from Shahrokhi

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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.