File interpretation
This file primarily contains incident reports on Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) written in compliance with the 1948 Flight Service Regulation (FSR) 200-4. The incidents were witnessed by military sources, as well as well as by some Civilian Aviation Authority (CAA) ones. The reports typically include information such as dates, locations, weather, and altitude, plus detailed descriptions of appearance and movement. Some messages from the Military Air Transport Service (MATS) and Army Airways Communications System (AACS) are also included, as well as additional military intelligence reports, several diagrams, and a report from a weather station in Japan.
This page treats the record as an indexable pdf entry rather than a bare download link. It exposes the agency, file type, release date, incident date, location, and official source so search engines can understand what the file is about. The listed incident date is 1/9/50.
The extracted text layer contains about 33,149 characters across 30 OCR pages, which makes this file a stronger candidate for document search and long-tail UFO file queries.
Metadata
- Agency
- Department of War
- File type
- Release date
- 5/8/26
- Incident date
- 1/9/50
- Location
- N/A
- OCR pages
- 30
- Text layer
- 33,149 chars
- File name
- 342_hs1-416511228_box186_319.1-flying-discs-1949.pdf