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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. 9 …23 Mar 74 (3 a.m.) On highway near Sanlúcar de Barrameda (3647N-00621W) Luminous, metal…
  • p. 11 …4 Apr 74 (morning) La Estrada (4241N-00829W) Metallic, noiseless, size of a bus, had a…
  • p. 31 …A HOLE IN ONE SIDE AND A METAL SKIN COVERING OF APPROX ONE-HALF INCH THICKNESS…
  • p. 36 …THE OUTSIDE METAL IS SIMILAR TO COPPER, IS KIND OF DARK WITH LIGHT SPOTS, AND HAS…
  • p. 52 …SATELLITE DESCRIBED AS MADE OF SOFT METAL PRESUMABLY LIGHT ALUMINIUM IN OBLONG CURES MEASURING TWO INCHES…
  • p. 53 …DATT INSPECTED OBJECT WHICH IS A METAL SPHERE ABOUT 18 INCHES IN DIAMETER WEIGHING 20-25…
  • p. 55 …LARGE TRIANGULAR PIECE FROM DTOR NOZZLE, CIRCULAR METAL DISK IS ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR, UVAL PIECE (THIRD OBJECT…
  • p. 59 …ITS COLOR WAS METALLIC, ALUMINUM-LIKE. IT APPEARED TO BE ABOUT TWO OR THREE TIMES THE…
  • p. 105 …NEPAL/Triangular Shaped Object/NA/Unknown NEPAL /2-G/Kathmandu, NEPAL/Circular Metal Disc/NA/Unknown

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