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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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“The Times”11 pages

  • 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…
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ACTION NMCG

DISTR CJC9(01) CJC9(02) J33(04) J3C AH3C SICC2P3

STATE OPEN HASH D=

ASDJ24(23) DIAS

DIA(18) NSA

WHITE HOUSE WASH DE

C8A WASH DC

ANMCC FCRT RITCHIE MD FILE(1)

DE RUCSHIJ #2388 3856825

0 018825Z NOV 75

PH 4289 CP LCRING ME /JJ0002

TO ZEN/SAC CP: FORCE STATUS

ZEN/JAC CP LOGISTICS

2EN/3AF CP FORCE STATUS

ZEN/3AF CP LOGISTICS

22H/309D CP PEASE NH

QUEXJCS/JCS(NMCC)

UEXAAA/USAF PHD OP8 DIV FT KITCHIE MD

RUNDDLAS/NCRAD CCC ENT AFB CD

79-0000-32221 PINAL

7323 TO 45A0 CC

JCPREP JIFFY 0092/FFDPOB/IN/CPREP=3 PINNAC

BOND BOND MING . LORING AIR FORCE BASE MAINE

AT 20172 A VISUAL SIGHTING OF AN UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT HAS REPORTED

LORING CRC 4NN NNN OF LORING APB.

AT 24192 ALERT WELO SAVE72 HAS LAUNCHED TO IDENTIFY THE OBJECT. 245272 ARCHED THE AREA AND HAS NOT ABLE TO MAKE CONTACT. LORING RIPECN THEN REPORTED A

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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.