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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.

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  • p. 45 …SOME SIGHTINGS HAVE BEEN EXPLAINED BY NATURAL/MANMADE PHENOMENA, SOME HAVE NOT. INVESTIGATION BY THE BAF…
  • p. 52 …THIS NATURE BUT ALL DIRECTIVES WERE DESTROYED. REQUEST SPECIFIC GUIDANCE OR REQUIREMENTS. MICROFILMED BY RS/R
  • p. 80 …SECOND SPHERE HAS NOT BEEN EXAMINED FOR IDENTIFYING MARKS. (D) PHYSICAL NATURE AND CONDITION: 1. SIZE…
  • p. 84 …and India (if any) to handle cases of this nature. ## 17. DOWNGRADING DATA: ## 16. DISTRIBUTION BY…
  • p. 135 …BESIDES POSSIBLE NATURAL CAUSES, THE AUTHOR EVEN MENTIONS THE INFLUENCES OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS. 5. (U…
  • p. 141 …The detachment participated in providing help to victims of air accidents and natural disasters, in elimination…
  • p. 145 …ONE WAS OFFERED A SOUVENIR OF A MOST INTIMATE NATURE BY A YOUNG LADY IN EXCHANGE…

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