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Unidentified Flying Objects Reports

Defense Intelligence Agency · 140 pages · text by OCR

This Defense Intelligence Agency release gathers Army and Air Force intelligence reports on unidentified flying objects from several countries. It contains translated Finnish Border Guard reports of glowing spheres and lights seen near the Soviet border, a Costa Rica sighting near Puntarenas, and Afghan news items from 1959 on bright objects over Kandahar, Mazar-i-Sharif and Kabul. Other reports describe objects over Kuldja in Sinkiang, China. A 1969 OSI report from Nakhon Phanom, Thailand concludes that a pilot's ground sighting was probably a religious procession carrying ceremonial drums.

  • p. 9 …of a star that slowly moved from west to east, so far behind the edge of…
  • p. 11 …The camera camera, being located 20 km west of Bublaja, described an object as collapsing from…
  • p. 12 …high speed from North-East towards South-West. The object disappeared in three minutes in the…
  • p. 14 …01 A small run fishing in the Ni, near 20 kilometers west of EULDA, between 9…
  • p. 17 …Object observed from Kaldja expressing from distant west in an easterly direction at great speed and…
  • p. 18 …Linding in West virginia of radio waves equipment Spring 1959. In the spring of 1959 a…
  • p. 19 income to 2707:10, 3138. Radio sonde equipment found in West Windsor Spring 1959
  • p. 20 …A flash originating in the sky far to the west of Urnuda fell identified flying object…
  • p. 21 …he thought that it had relied on the garden ride of the ship first barrier west…
  • p. 28 …an object rising from a point due west of Blanding; signage, black, discharged small torches of…
  • p. 34 …0231-05073) at 5122004-157035 (GB 065948) west of MKCELAND. The two take-offs occurred within…
  • p. 37 …a parabolic trajectory moving from east to west with luminous white color which caused magnetic changes…
  • p. 45 …shifted position at high speed toward the west, and when she got it in focus, it…
  • p. 47 …59 min South 60 deg 32 min West), and Commander, Argentine Activity at Orcadas (Laurie Island…
  • p. 48 …WHITE LUMINOUS COLOR, NOT BRILLIANT, ROUND FORM, CLEAN OUTLINE, PARABOLIC TRAJECTORY WEST TO EAST, THREE ZERO…
  • p. 49 …LIKE A BRILLIANT STAR, MOVING EAST TO WEST CENTRAL TRAJECTORY WITH OSCILLATIONS, DISAPPEARING IN THE CLOUDS…
  • p. 52 …south and 160 kilometers from east to west. It is felt that there must have been…
  • p. 68 …TRACKS CROSS AT A POINT ON THE WEST OF DARGAVILLE TOWNSHIP. FROM A GENERAL INDICATION OF…
  • p. 81 …2. (U) This information was furnished USI by West Germany. The NO FOR-FEIGN DISSEM EXCEPT…
  • p. 119 …On the third occasion, it as observed at 6000 feet heading west. Estimated speed 100 knots…
  • p. 127 …0 11' SOUTH / 174 0 51.5' WEST $ 5. 3 9 3^{2}=1 1 5…
Colonel L.H.Walker,

Air Attache,

American Embassy,

Wellington.

Dear Sir,

I was curious as to why the Koreans would take such a risk in the seizure of the 'Pueblo' in International Waters. I made some checks and I believe the following is the answer.

Lop Nor test site = 42.16° Lat / 90° 00' Long ( Grid)

Harmonic 42I6 Log 2640

'Pueblo' Station = 39.3° Lat / I27° 06' Long

Harmonic 393 = Reciprocal 2545.56

= Gravity Acceleration Harmonic ( Grid )

2545

$ \mathrm{I} 2 7^{\circ} 0 6^{\prime}-9 0^{\circ}=3 7^{\circ} 0 6^{\prime}\neq 3 7. \mathrm{I}^{*} $ ( reciprocal 37I Harmonic 2695)

Distance from Lop Nor test site to 'Pueblo' station = 3I°-I860'

Log of Harmonic I86 = 2695

2695 = Grid Co-ordinate ( 695 reciprocal Speed of Light)

The 'Pueblo' was just north of this position when captured. (Blenheim---Mururoa) ('Pueblo'---Lop Nor)

Yours Faithfully,

B. L Cathie.

Atch No.2 to IR 1869 0008 68

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