Northern-tier base overflights

Aerial photograph of Loring Air Force Base, Maine, around 1970
Loring AFB, Maine, about 1970, one of the bases overflown by unidentified objects in 1975 Unknown author (Library of Congress, HABS/HAER), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Air Force and NORAD records released under FOIA describe unidentified, low-flying objects, often likened to helicopters, over Loring, Wurtsmith and Malmstrom bases in late October and November 1975. Pursuit efforts failed; the Washington Post reported the files in 1979.

Sources

  1. OfficialUnidentified Flying Objects over Malmstrom AFB, November 1975 (FOIA case 97-F-1677) (opens in a new tab)Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (copy hosted by The Black Vault)
  2. PressWhat Were Those Mysterious Craft? (Ward Sinclair and Art Harris), CIA-RDP88-01315R000300070004-1 (opens in a new tab)The Washington Post (clipping in CIA FOIA Reading Room) / 1979-01-19

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