Teletype · Sacramento to Seattle and Butte re SR-71 overflights of NORJAK exit area · 17 February 1972 · 1 pageAIType, title and date: machine-written — generated by an AI model from the transcripts, and it can be wrong. The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
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DE FBI SE GA
NR 04 SC CODE
5:30 PM URGENT 2/17/72 VLS
TO SEATTLE (164-81)
BUTTE
FROM SACRAMENTO (164-50) 2P
NORJAK. OO: SEATTLE.
RE SACRAMENTO TEL, FEB. TEN, LAST. SR-71
PHOTOGRAPHIC OVERFLIGHT USING SR-SEVENTY ONE AIRCRAFT PERFORMED
BY BEALE AFB PERSONNEL FEB. FOUR AND ELEVEN, LAST, AND AGAIN TODAY.
ON ALL THREE FLIGHTS, NO PHOTOS OBTAINED DUE TO LIMITED VISIBILITY
FROM VERY HIGH ALTITUDE.
TODAY [REDACTED] SR-SEVENTY ONE FLIGHTS
FROM BEALE AFB, ADVISED EACH SUCH FLIGHT REQUIRES MINIMUM OF ONE
WEEK ADVANCE CLEARANCE WITH FAA DUE TO SONIC BOOM PROBLEM,
SPECIALIZED COMPUTER PROGRAMMING OF AIRCRAFT, FILING OF FLIGHT PLAN
AND COMPLIANCE WITH FAA REQUIREMENTS. ACCORDINGLY, WEATHER ON
FLIGHT DATE CANNOT BE ACCURATELY PREDICTED. HE STATED NO FUTURE
FLIGHTS OVER SPECIFIC AREA WHERE HIJACKER THIS CASE POSSIBLY EXITED
IN SOUTHER WASHINGTON ABLE TO BE PRESENTLY SCHEDULED SINCE SR-
SEVENTY ONE OTHERWISE COMMITTED FOR MILITARY MISSIONS [illegible]
MONTHS.
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