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Unidentified Flying Objects Reports

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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. 10 …The following are the results of the effecting the net loss of the business under the…
  • p. 12 …10 2130720 SUBJECT UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS DATE OF REPORT 3 Dec 59 NO. OF PAGES 2…
  • p. 16 …1959, published the following item: 2 Dec 59: "A bright circular object was observed in the…
  • p. 20 …October 1950, of an unidentified flying object with the following characteristics. A flash originating in the…
  • p. 28 …The following reports all give similar details on unidentified flying objects observed over Western Balkan Provinces…
  • p. 36 …the Air Attache the following three instances of having seen strange objects. These events were reported…
  • p. 37 …About one week later another strange object appeared for about 10 minutes between 2230 and 2300…
  • p. 38 …People from this base said that they had observed an object of star of the first…
  • p. 41 During 13 to 14 minutes this strange object followed us. It gave me the impression that…
  • p. 45 that the Investigation Center for Unidentified Objects (ICUO) was established, which maintains that the UFO's…
  • p. 48 …OBJECT MANEUVERED RAPIDLY FOR TWO FIVE MINUTES OVER DECEPTION ISLAND AREA. AMPLIFYING INFORMATION TO FOLLOW. ## BT…
  • p. 52 …On the basis of the colors of these unknown flying objects: (1) The illuminated object must…
  • p. 62 …Suddenly, at 1743 hours, a round luminous object with a fantastic speed and an exceptional brightness…
  • p. 65 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT objects since 1952. His first sighting was of an object…
  • p. 72 …I believe my theories to be correct because of the following reasons: (1) Once I had…
  • p. 118 …Crew of Knife 27 suspected objects escaped by descending below radar capability. B. On 020326L Dec…
  • p. 130 …Cited references describe the source and his theory of Unidentified Flying Object. Source is still employed…
  • p. 138 …At the time, the pilot was searching for unidentified flying objects pursuant to an earlier Base…
mursily parallel to the horizent north of the point of observation ; after 5 minutes appeared behind high transverse to northeast of the point of observation ; throu- not period of observation , this object remained roughly the same also ; no sound .

Report No. 2017/61 (date of Information, May 1960); unidentified flying object rising over Western Blanding Paradise; about 2000, in May 1960, source observed an object rising from a point due west of Blanding; signage, black, discharged small torches of flame from four separate points; initially observed immediately above location; visible for one minute; no noise, no illumination of ground during period of observation.

Report No. 2022/61 (date of information, October 1960); unidentified flying object found in hills in Baldja area, Minkiang Province; two white sandboard boards larger of which attached by wire to a buset and rubber balloon, smaller attached by wire to larger box which had instrument measuring panel inserted and four sublimated propeller attached; smaller box contained batteries joined in single circuit to larger box (each battery and 17 or 19 July 1936 printed in Russian)1 Over period of time, many such devices found in area.

Report No. 2024/61 (date of information, Summer 1960); object about size of full opos with height and tail observed between 2000 and 2100 on two occasions within two weeks period.

Report No. 2004/11 (date of information, Spring 1999); object sighted in evening for a period of six weeks disappearing about 2200 each opening, following wave course; never visited in else.

The following reports all give similar details on unidentified flying objects observed over Western Balkan Provinces:

Import No. 2032/61 (Date of Information, August 1960); Object first oi= served in June 1960 and again in August 1960 between 2000 and 2100 as both ocellops; and tail of yellowish-white flames and white smoke; as sound.

Report No. 2023/01 (date of information, September 1960); object observed about 2000; size of star with tail; no visible smoke tail; no sound.

Report No. 2000/61 (date of information, Spring 1960); Object aligned at 227 on Russian Orthodox Easter Sunday in 1960; Jet of flame about equal in length to diameter of moon, color near that of lighted match. Total time of observation about 5 minutes.

Import No. 2042/61 (date of information, Winter 1959); Tulce in winter of 1956, once in winter of 1957 and once in winter of 1959, sphere of yellowish fire, tulce the size of the full moon sighted by resident of Tulce. Object visible for thirty seconds or a minute, no sound.

Report No. 2041/61 (date of information, Spring 1960); About 1000 in Spring 1960, object assembling glowing and cloud and nine of full moon observed trot of Kaldja; simulated visible for half an hour; no sound.

Report No. 2043/61 (date of information, September 1960); On an June 1960 and again in September 1960, about 2000, light, and in color and little larger time a star, observed by a prisoner of a penal labor camp; visible for approximately half an hour.

Report No. 2045/81 (date of Information, Summer 1960); Two objects sighted by resident of Kuldja; the first one evening in summer of 1959; round object the size of a small star glowing with a saddish light; examined in view for about twenty minutes. The second appeared about 2000, summer of 1960 which appeared to be a glowing sphere of white light about nine of full moon and appeared to be opening; visible for half an hour, no sound.

ANSWER:

S. B. HENDERLE

Colonel, General Staff,

U. S. Army Lieutenant of Clarence.

New York

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