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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.

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  • p. 4 …Border Guard. more lights is the sky. c Overflights by Russian aircraft. ANO area The general…
  • p. 10 …Alfred C. Benn, while traveling on the Pan American Highway in the vivinity of Puntarenas reported…
  • p. 12 …U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transposition of revelation of which is any manner…
  • p. 15 …14 Nov 50 C I I N ( S I N T I N C ) - A N…
  • p. 17 …WORLD C > Email: Report No. 2026 (2 eps) ATTORNEY: JAMES SHEE JAMES C. SHEE, Ambassador, Consul…
  • p. 22 …Maj C. P. Benedict SHOT Roland T. Kelley SHOT Frederick Q. Riese L4, Rasavi 2 Iranian…
  • p. 26 …The day in the 60°C resident at 22:00 is extremely cold at 16°09…
  • p. 29 …the encyclopa- tion, Title II, U.S.C., Seas. 793 and 794, the incorporation or constitution…
  • p. 30 …SHEE JAVES C. SHEE, Colonel, General Staff, U.S. Army Lieutenant Officer.
  • p. 36 …DIRM 1 A 3 A, 4 A 2 b (2), 4 A 3 C, 4 A…
  • p. 37 …which could be expected of an aircraft. c. On 19 June there was a re-occurrence…
  • p. 42 …SOURCE C INFORMATION 2 7. SOURCE: Press 5. SUMMARY: (U) This report concerns information condensed from…
  • p. 44 …SOURCE C INFORMATION 3 13. PREPARED BY: HOWARD W. SLATON, Col., USAF 8. SOURCE: Press 14…
  • p. 47 …Title 18, U.S.C., Sec. 793, and 794. The transmission or the revelation of its…
  • p. 54 …SOURCE C INFORMATION 4 7. SOURCE: Press 16. SUMMARY: On 8 April 1966, an unidentified object…
  • p. 55 …SOURCE C INFORMATION 3 SOURCE: DIRM 4.E. SUMMARY: Report briefly describes recent sightings of flying…
  • p. 58 …CARLOS C.
  • p. 61 …SOURCE C INFORMATION 3 SOURCE: Local press
  • p. 63 …SOURCE C INFORMATION 3 SOURCE: Local Press
  • p. 72 …I had derived from the U.F.C. grid system which to me, proves it must…
  • p. 78 …FINDLER AND FIRST OFFICER WAIT N.A.C. SIGNED U.F.O. EAST OF MT EGMONT…
  • p. 81 …KOS-KUDUK (UL9028) SLAVJANKA (VI6000) U/I Flying Object; Construction Site C NUMBER: DATE OF INFORMATION…
  • p. 92 …asunto sobre los jo control de la C blema, quodaba más colocado baj de secreto militar…
  • p. 120 …SOURCE C INFORMATION 4 9. SOURCE: National Airway Corporation Pilot Capt B. L. Cathie
  • p. 125 …7 1^{\circ}-\mathrm {H A M O N I C} \cdot 4 9 7 1…
  • p. 132 …SOURCE C INFORMATION 7. SOURCE: National Airways Corporation Pilot Captain B. L. Cathie 16. EVALUATION OF…
  • p. 133 …THIS EQUALS $ E = \left( c + \sqrt{\frac{1}{c}} \right) c^{2} $ THIS MAKES ' M ' OR…
  • p. 134 Further if we square both sides of the equation then harmonic $E^2 = \text{harmonic } C…
  • p. 137 …ir OSI USAF 4 p Dir OSI (PACAF)(CINC- C-J21-2) 5 p Ch, JUSMAGTHAI…
  • p. 139 …at the time to substantiate that possibility. c. During November and early December, radar gear in…
2. /Information obtained from personnel stationed at border post at village alI REZABAD. Border post is located 60km NE of the confluence of the QARA BU and ARAB Rivers. Personnel were debriefed on the afternoon of 18 July 1960.

Time of sighting: About 2000 hours, 17 July 1960

Asimuth to object: About 90°

Angle of Elevation: 90°

Color of light! Blue-green

General remarks: Two lights were seen initially and then they became three. The lights were seen for over one minute. Flight was horizontal. Object did not appear to land, but disappeared behind the base on the horizon. No similar sighting had ever been made before.

3. Information obtained from personnel stationed at Gendarmerie Port at village of ARJACH, 160 km south and east of confluence of the GARA SU and ARAS "livers. Personnel were debriefed on 19 July 1960.

Time ofighting: 2000 hours, 17 July 1960

Azimuth to object: 150°

Angle of elevation: 70°

Direction of movement: 82 to 84

Color of light: Blue-green

General remarks: Two lights were seen initially in the EK sky. The lights appeared to explode into three lights. The flight was horizontal. Lights were seen for 4-5 minutes. Each light appeared to be 2-3 feet in diameter. (This is five times larger than the lights appeared to MOST personnel and twice as large as they appeared to border personnel.) No similar sighting has ever been seen at this point.

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