For PURSUE-RELEASE-01 serial 77a75970-db14-4617-8ffa-8a6378316bab, summarize the 1949 multi-station flying disc reports.

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For PURSUE-RELEASE-01 serial 77a75970-db14-4617-8ffa-8a6378316bab, summarize the 1949 multi-station flying disc reports.

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Between July and September 1949, and again in January 1950, multiple Flight Service Centers submitted reports of unidentified flying objects to the Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in compliance with Flight Service Regulation 200-4. The reports covered sightings over Kansas, Washington, Oregon, Ohio, South Carolina, and New York, with objects described variously as dish-shaped, circular, and cylindrical [PURSUE-RELEASE-01/77a75970-db14-4617-8ffa-8a6378316bab]. One detailed report, filed by Olmsted Flight Service Center on 22 September 1949, described a sighting on 20 September 1949 near Griffiss Air Force Base, Rome, New York. An airborne observer spotted a single silvery, cylindrical object at approximately 20,000 feet, about 30 miles away at the four o'clock position, descending slowly until it disappeared into overcast at 7,000 feet on a heading of 250 degrees. The object produced an orange and white flame exhaust more than twice the length of the object itself, made no sound, and was assessed to have rocket or jet propulsion. Speed was described only as a "high rate of speed." The observer was identified as Major Earl Goodrich, Air Materiel Command [PURSUE-RELEASE-01/77a75970-db14-4617-8ffa-8a6378316bab]. The January 1950 report, submitted by Lowry Flight Service Center in Denver, described two objects sighted on the night of 6 January 1950 over Kansas City and Olathe, Kansas. The objects appeared motionless over Olathe for ten to fifteen minutes before moving off very fast. Witnesses were James F. Grey, a pilot employed at Bendix Aviation, and Robert Van De Vyvere. Sketches were noted as forthcoming; no photographs were available [PURSUE-RELEASE-01/77a75970-db14-4617-8ffa-8a6378316bab].