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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. 3 …ROK efforts to recover debris subsequent to the explosions have been unsuccessful. 3. The ROKAF Chief…
  • p. 66 …HOWEVER, THE PATTERNS, ACCOMPANYING NOISE, AND COLORATIONS REPORTED STRONG SUGGEST SPACE DEBRIS FROM ATMOSPHERIC GRIDLOCK. 3…
  • p. 67 CASE, SPACE DEBRIS FROM WEATHER, COMMUNICATIONS, OR ONE OF THE COUNTLESS EXPERIMENTAL SATILLITES WHICH CIRCLE THE…
  • p. 82 …SPHERICAL SPACE OBJECTS AND OTHER APPARENT SPACE DEBRIS WHICH WERE FOUND IN APRIL 1972 WERE LOCATED…
  • p. 84 …Purpose of the visit was to deliver the attached drawings of the space debris found in…
  • p. 86 …From information provided, can the debris be positively identified? b. If so, what is country of…
  • p. 103 …Based upon information contained in subject IR, and attachments, the debris cannot be identified; however, if…

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