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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. 1 …and nearby Soviet territory and the coastal waters during the month of December 1957. This report…
  • p. 2 …territory as well as over the coastal waters. It is difficult to obtain information on the…
  • p. 3 …a vessel or remote in far northern waters. The target area, it is argued, could be…
  • p. 15 …in 1927, lit natural small light, residual water, rain and snow, and very rapidly to the…
  • p. 58 …At approximately the hour indicated above, my wife was watering the flowers in the window boxes…
  • p. 128 …the seizure of the 'Pueblo' in International Waters. I made some checks and I believe the…
  • p. 129 …Just as the Pueblo and her kin prowl the international waters off China, North Korea and…
  • p. 131 …Antartic program, and which was in Antartic waters at the time. Capt Cathie said that he…
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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