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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. 3 …The object appeared to be gradually descending northward and finally disappeared beyond the horizon. The line…
  • p. 11 …a hardenous whitening ball of vapour which disappeared after 2-4 minutes, leaving in its about…
  • p. 12 …The object disappeared in three minutes in the clouds." (U) CONTENT: a. USAJIA has been unable…
  • p. 14 …The cloud and remained visible for two or three minutes, after which it disappeared, leaving in…
  • p. 16 …sky over CAMIL, moving South-east; it disappeared after two minutes." of Pakistan, having sighted three…
  • p. 17 …changed course from horizontal to vertical and disappeared; object visible for about five (5) minutes; trail…
  • p. 18 …bullet, had shot upwards still higher and disappeared from sight. It had remained in view altogether…
  • p. 20 …risen to a great height before finally disappearing in the west of yellowish color and required…
  • p. 21 …dozen to a great height before finally disappearing in the east. It had been about the…
  • p. 23 …Object did not appear to land, but disappeared behind the base on the horizon. No similar…
  • p. 28 …evening for a period of six weeks disappearing about 2200 each opening, following wave course; never…
  • p. 34 …sound after the object leveled off and disappeared in a westerly direction. BEST COPY AVAILABLE IAA…
  • p. 36 …hovered for a few minutes, and then disappeared in the sky. 16. DISTRIBUTION BY ORIGINATOR: USCINCSO…
  • p. 37 …later stopping from 5-10 minutes, then disappearing at great altitude. It was red, then yellowish…
  • p. 45 …making a vertical oscillating ascent, only to disappear rapidly. After five minutes the ACC operator again…
  • p. 49 …EAST TO WEST CENTRAL TRAJECTORY WITH OSCILLATIONS, DISAPPEARING IN THE CLOUDS, ELEVATION DURING ZERO DASH FOUR…
  • p. 55 …it for 15 minutes before it finally disappeared. No pictures were taken of the object. In…
  • p. 56 …The object was described as completely white, silent, flying at low altitude, and would disappear and…
  • p. 116 …the objects" then was withdrawn and they disappeared in different ways. (UP) 23 13. A. Herald…
  • p. 118 …again 1NM southeast of where it had disappeared, heading southeast. GCA lost it after 4-5NM…
SOURCE: A young Indian resident of NEHOTI who spent two weeks in MURCIA in Ayr 60 while migrating to Iraq.

between 7.00 and 10.00 is on each of the two occasions in indown a flash and then appears a strong object, possibly a star but very much brighter, and appears in the sky a line way to the west of 'KAOE' and half a dozen to a great height before finally disappearing in the east. It had been about the time of an ordinary star and all a yellowish colour, and it taken about five minutes from the time it was first seen until it disappeared. It had last illumination in its only which could not be seen two or three minutes after the object had passed. There was no sound from it nor did it have a bite. Then it was straight onward it was only just visible, but then probably grew it far as it desolated.

he thought that it had relied on the garden ride of the ship

first barrier west of JILA, but his only reason for thinking so was

the caution that the Chinese had not the ability for launching any

object from their side on the frontier.

a station station, in the course of a fortnight's stay in SHANGHAI during 60 had on several occasions seen aircraft flying over that city at very speed and had a frequently recognised the XC 194 from illustrations had seen in aircraft procurement works. They had appeared to him to be willing faster than the Faces be in support, each flying over Hong Kong

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