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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. 32 …AIR FORCE ACADEMY, COL ARIEL COCA THE SPHERE IS MADE OF SPECIAL LIGHT ALLOY BUT VERY…
  • p. 35 …NEW SPHERE FELL FROM SPACE IN SANTA CRUZ - UNQUOTE. AN UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION OF THE ARTICLE FOLLOWS…
  • p. 36 ## PAGE 3 AS THOUGH THE SPHERES LANDED SMOOTHLY. THE MATERIAL OF THE SPHERES IS KIND OF…
  • p. 53 …THE TWO HALVES OF THE SPHERE ARE WELDED TOGETHER. AT EACH POLE OF SPHERE ARE PORTS…
  • p. 80 …NONE APPARENT ON FIRST SPHERE. SECOND SPHERE HAS NOT BEEN EXAMINED FOR IDENTIFYING MARKS. (D) PHYSICAL…
  • p. 82 …DSIR'S ADVICE TO THE SCIENCE OFFICER NOVEMBER 3 THAT THE SPHERE WAS A SILICON=ALUMINUM…
  • p. 107 …The sphere weighs 30 pounds and has a circumference of four feet. A second object was…

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