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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. 9 …the size of a star that slowly moved from west to east, so far behind the…
  • p. 14 …star and which was pulsating. The light had then rived in an east direction into the…
  • p. 18 …The object had the brilliant light yellow colour of a star and the size of one…
  • p. 20 …the west of Urnuda fell identified flying object recording the size of an ordinary star, but…
  • p. 21 …It had been about the time of an ordinary star and all a yellowish colour, and…
  • p. 25 …He had noticed, however, that the star surrounding it had been observed for a moment by…
  • p. 28 …the first one evening in summer of 1959; round object the size of a small star…
  • p. 31 …The light had been star-shaped and yellowish. Two or three days later the same peasant…
  • p. 37 …The angle was estimated at 20° and of the size of a star of the first…
  • p. 38 …People from this base said that they had observed an object of star of the first…
  • p. 41 …The night was cloudy and without stars. I was not the only one who saw this…
  • p. 48 …ON TWO ZERO JUNE THE CHILEAN BASE COMMANDER (AGUIRRE CERDA BASE) REPORTED THAT AT ONE SIX…
  • p. 49 …A BRILLIANT STAR, MOVING EAST TO WEST CENTRAL TRAJECTORY WITH OSCILLATIONS, DISAPPEARING IN THE CLOUDS, ELEVATION…
  • p. 58 …The lines were red and the small stars formed at the end of the lines were…
  • p. 62 …The object had an impressive volume, four times bigger than that of a star. It was…
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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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