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Sighting Of Unidentified Flying Objects

Defense Intelligence Agency · 148 pages · text by OCR

This Defense Intelligence Agency compilation brings together several Department of Defense intelligence information reports on UFO sightings from 1968 to 1976. It includes 1968 reports of UFOs over South China and the Taiwan Strait, a 1970 South Korean report on possible North Korean balloons, and a table of Spanish sightings from 1973 to 1974 taken from the local press. It also contains a Pakistani report of a light seen before an earthquake and the USDAO Tehran account of F-4 jets losing instruments while chasing a UFO in September 1976.

  • p. 4 …Insert special security precautions or markings and downgrading information.
  • p. 5 …not automatically declassified Insert special security precautions or markings and downgrading information.
  • p. 18 …THE CREW DESCENDED FROM THEIR ALTITUDE OF 26M TO 15M AND CONTINUED TO OBSERVE AND MARK…
  • p. 21 …BY LIGHTNING, BUT THERE WERE NO BURN MARKS ANYWHERE. A TELEVISION SET EXPLODED. OUTLETS EXPLODED IN…
  • p. 32 …OBJECT DOES NOT HAVE ANY SIGNS OR MARKS THAT COULD IDENTIFY ITS ORIGIN NOR THE COUNTRY…
  • p. 80 …NONE IDENTIFYING MARKS: NONE APPARENT ON FIRST SPHERE. SECOND SPHERE HAS NOT BEEN EXAMINED FOR IDENTIFYING…
  • p. 84 …is prohibited by law. (Classification and Control Markings) This report contains unprocessed information. Plans and/or…
  • p. 98 …TO IMPACT OF OUT-SIDE BODY?) DETAIL OF DAMAGE - b SCALE - 1:2 CLEAR INDENTATION MARKS
  • p. 105 CONTINUATION SHEET (Classification and Control Markings) REPORT NO. PAGE 2 OF 2. PAGES ORIGINATOR PHOTOGRAPH TITLING…
  • p. 146 …intercept them without success. (This report is marked NOFORN-DISSEM) (Evaluation Reports, DD Forms 1480, prepared…

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