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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.
“Sightings”44 pages
- p. 1 …by the source on mysterious lights recently sighted in the sky over Flanish and nearby Soviet…
- p. 2 …It is difficult to obtain information on the sightings because of all have been reported to…
- p. 3 …recollecting a clover - a long clover - was sighted by two farmers latenearth east of pikematters, in…
- p. 8 …is not considered probable that these are sightings from established Russian text areas.
DISTRIBUTION BY OJUJATON…
- p. 9 …Illuminated objects of the same kind have been sighted near the border for a number of…
- p. 12 …USAJIA has been unable to secure further information about either of these sightings.
b. Afghanistan, with…
- p. 16 …disappeared after two minutes."
of Pakistan, having sighted three 600 within a period of two months…
- p. 18 …and found the object described below
## 1. Sighting from Foot Sinking of unidentified flying object
6…
- p. 22 …ID
OBJECT Aerial Sighting (U) DATE OF REPORT 28 July 1960
NO. OF PAGES 2
17…
- p. 23 …Time of sighting: About 2000 hours, 17 July 1960
Asimuth to object: About 90°
Angle of…
- p. 28 …2004/11 (date of information, Spring 1999); object sighted in evening for a period of six…
- p. 30 …The launching of balloons in the general area of the object sightings may be related to…
- p. 32 …2099/63 describing sighting in the Bay Area A nightly through period August to October 1962…
- p. 36 …A résumé of these reports of sightings is provided.
Sequence of Events and/or appearance of…
- p. 38 …The object was first sighted at 1555 and was described to be in the form of…
- p. 39 …Amembassy, Santiago, Chile Joint Week 27 of 9 July carried item on initial report of sightings…
- p. 41 …Many sightings have been reported in the northern area of Chile. Personal conversation with the Chilean…
- p. 47 …The messages summarize sightings by Argentine personnel, and reports that British and Chilean base personnel at…
- p. 48 …OBJECTED SIGHTED BY CIVILIAN METEOROLOGIST JORGE STANICH AND OBSERVED DURING FIVE SECOND PERIOD. OBJECT STATIONARY, COLORED…
- p. 49 …SOME PHOTOGRAPHY TAKEN OF THIS SIGHTING.
4. Fourth Message.
DTG 062100.
ORIGINATOR CO ORCADAS
TO CHIEF…
- p. 52 …The first four sightings list the observer as unknown. The last three sightings list officials (police…
- p. 55 …Reported sightings of Flying Saucers in Brazil
ISC NUMBER:
DATE OF INFORMATION: March 1967
Rio de…
- p. 56 A more recent reported sighting occurred on 30 March 1967 in Rio Comprido. However, this one…
- p. 57 …UFO Sighting
3. ISC NUMBER: DIRM 4A3e
4. DATE OF INFORMATION: 23 Apr 1967
5. PLACE…
- p. 60 …This report mentions a UFO sighting near KASHGAR, an oil field near BAI (4147N/8152E) and…
- p. 61 …UFO Sighting over Agadir, Morocco
DATE OF REPORT: 18 January 1967
NO. OF PAGES: 2
ISC…
- p. 62 …had to change their mind as the sight was turning into real science fiction.
Mr. Juan…
- p. 63 …UFO Sighting at Kasba Tadla, Morocco (32°36'N-06°17'W)
ISC NUMBER:
DATE OF…
- p. 65 …His first sighting was of an object on the ground near Auckland. In 1956 he observed…
- p. 66 …UFO Sightings as Plotted by National Airways Transportation Corporation Captain
TO: AFSC (FTD)
Wright-Patterson AFB…
- p. 67 ## TDEW
UFO Sightings as Plotted by National Airways Transportation Corporation Captain
Office of the Air Attache…
- p. 68 …WAS SIGHTED IN THE AREA JUST BEFORE THE SIGNALS FROM THE MARS SATELLITE WERE BEING RECEIVED…
- p. 69 …UFO Sightings as Plotted by National Airways Corporation Captain B. L. Cathie.
TO: AFSC (FTD)
Wright…
- p. 70 …UFO Sightings as Plotted by National Airways Corporation Captain B. L. Cathie
TO: AFSC (FTD)
Wright…
- p. 80 …He says these sightings placed the objects exactly over other intersections of the grid.
"He also…
- p. 86 …Describes area of most common sightings.
11. La Nacion (Buenos Aires) 18 July 68 - Describes landing…
- p. 118 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT
Aircraft lights or other sightings were seen. Crew of Knife…
- p. 119 …This headquarters is highly interested in such sightings and reports, and will continue to monitor such…
- p. 127 ROUGH MEASUREMENT OF RAPIDS CONVERTED TO FEET . ( FULL SIZE )
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
NEW VOLCANO SIGHTED BY TORVA…
- p. 136 …In addition, he said five (5) positive sightings had been made.
4. Approximately a week later…
- p. 137 …I Atch Sketch of Sighting Area
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- p. 138 …The aircraft orbitted the sighting area, and the pilot observed that he thought to be a…
- p. 139 …Radar and visual sightings of UFOs, such as that being checked out by the OV-10…
- p. 140 …Yet Thai military and police agencies continue to report helicopter sightings, or fail to report conflicting…
DÉPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT
1. COUNTRY: NEW ZEALAND
2. SUBJECT: Alleged Interference with UFO Investigation
3. ISC NUMBER:
4. DATE OF INFORMATION: 30 April 1968
5. PLACE AND DATE OF ACQ: Wellington, NZ
30 April 1968
6. EVALUATION: SOURCE F INFORMATION 4
7. SOURCE: Capt B. L. Cathie
National Airways Corporation Pilot
15. SUMMARY: (UNCLASSIFIED)
Source in last three months has called DATT 3 or 4 times by telephone and reported his progress in his UFO investigation. On 30 April he telephoned that his investigation was being hampered by US personnel "tailing" him. He requested relief from such surveillance.
1. General. Cited references describe the source and his theory of Unidentified Flying Object. Source is still employed by NAC as an Aircraft Commander, is well known to his compatriots as something of a "bug" on UFO's. However he is not considered a "nut". On the last three occasions when he called the DATT, he went into considerable detail about new findings which he said further proved his theory. These conversations were ignored.
2. Request for Relief from Surveillance. On 30 April Capt Cathie called the DATT again. He mentioned that his theory was again proving correct in the Auckland area. He specifically mentioned White Island (a volcanic type). He stated that it would soon be apparent that we are actually dealing direct with UFO's. He went on to say that he had thought he was being followed (observed) by some persons,
16. DISTRIBUTION BY ORIGINATOR:
CINCPAC - 1 cy
CINCPACAF - 1 cy
17. DOWNGRADING DATA:
18. ATTACHMENT DATA:
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FOIA release, from the dia collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 140 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.