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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. 38 …later strange objects were sighted flying over Buenos Aires. One of the spectators took a photograph…
  • p. 48 …Naval Attache Attache, Buenos Aires HOURS. OBJECTED SIGHTED BY CIVILIAN METEOROLOGIST JORGE STANICH AND OBSERVED DURING…
  • p. 83 …USDAO, Buenos Aires, Argentina 5. PLACE AND DATE OF ACCO: Buenos Aires, Arg. 2 July 1968…
  • p. 85 …Buenos Aires, Argentina 8 August 1968 EVALUATION: SOURCE B INFORMATION 2 SOURCE: Local newspapers
  • p. 86 …Buenos Aires Herald (Buenos Aires) 8 Aug 68 - Describes in-space rendezvous between two UFO's…
  • p. 94 …Radiofofo de UPI exclusiva para LOS PRINCIPIOS) BUENOS AIRES. — El señor Ariel Ciro Rietti, muestra el…
  • p. 95 …días ha, el diario "La Razón" de Buenos Aires denunciaba el caso extraordinario del joven Inlart…
  • p. 97 …días ha, el diablo "La Razón" de Buenos Aires denunciaba el caso extraordinario del joven Iniart…
  • p. 98 …días ha, el diario "La Razón" de Buenos Aires denunciaba el caso extraordinario del joven Iriart…
  • p. 101 …En el Aeroparque de Buenos Aires, por ejemplo expresó—aterriza y levanta vuelo un aparato a…
  • p. 110 …Tanta es la trascendencia de estas apariciones en esa zona de la provincia de Buenos Aires…
  • p. 116 …route between Indie Rico and Tres Arroyos, Buenos Aires, reported yesterday they saw two UFOs (Unidentified…
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All such observations should be significant that the observers were

December 19, 1857, a brilliant, elucidated object, recollecting a clover - a long clover - was sighted by two farmers latenearth east of pikematters, in the province of Kuwait. The object came late eight from the eastern city. Its flight was horizonal, i.e., parallel to the earth, and its altitude was considerable. The limit of flight was almost the east. Its speed was not exactly that of a artist or a cartoon. The mysterious object was visible for a considerable time later. (Imported by the new year "Kalamazoo News" 15, Dec. 27)

December 19, 1957 (between 8 a.m. 9 p.m.). Recorders in the village of Virntale, in Kumman, and a strife light in the central district. The light flew slowly upward in a vertical line and then crossed northward at a far greater speed. This performance was reported several times. The light also flew around, parallel to the north several times, then descended to the ground. (Imported by the Minneapolis Sheriff, 15 Dec 57). Other similar observations were made a number of times in previous years along the scriptural trail, mainly near St. John the Apostle Circle.

December 13, 1957 (10 a.m.) Two farriers of 22nd World, in the district of Daimo, visited a fortified sphere floating across the Laramie in a direction from X. to Y. The city was overcast and snow was falling lightly. The altitude of the object did not seem very high.

December 24, 1857 (7 y. 2 m. 1 s.), a fiery sphere was allied at Locillife, in the commune of Lahore (or not far from the locality of the preceding sighting), flying through the eastern sky at a great altitude. The object appeared to be gradually descending northward and finally disappeared beyond the horizon. The line of flight was from the N to the S.

It is significant that the majority of the writings here reported, as well as the majority of those reported in earlier months were taken from the Soviet frontier.

The possibility has been suggested in certain military quarters that the missions are conducting man of their feet from a vessel or remote in far northern waters. The target area, it is argued, could be as far as the midtable interior in the case of long-range missiles.

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