Information enquiry about UFO sightings at Malmstrom AFB

Department of the Air Force, Headquarters Foreign Technology Division (AFSC), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio 45433,
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Reply to attn of: TDET/UFO

Subject: UFO Observations, Malmstrom AFB Area

To: Base Operations Office
Attn: Lt Col Lewis Chase
Malmstrom AFB

  1. Reference you unclassified message, ZIPPO 2414 Mar 67, subject: Preliminary UFO Report. Your message mentioned that numerous reports were received by Malmstrom AFB agencies in the Great Falls, Montana area during the early morning hours, on or about 24 March 1967.
  2. Our office has been informed that during the sightings there were equipement malfunctions and abnormalities in the equipment. One individual stated that the USAF instructed both military and civilian personnel not to discuss what they had seen as it was a classified government experiment.
  3. Request information on validity of such statements. If some type of experiment did occur on or about 24 March 1967, please advice.

For the commander

James C. Mahatt, Colonel, USAF
Director of Technology and Subsystems