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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 …of a star that slowly moved from west to east, so far behind the edge of…
  • p. 11 …The camera camera, being located 20 km west of Bublaja, described an object as collapsing from…
  • p. 12 …high speed from North-East towards South-West. The object disappeared in three minutes in the…
  • p. 14 …01 A small run fishing in the Ni, near 20 kilometers west of EULDA, between 9…
  • p. 17 …Object observed from Kaldja expressing from distant west in an easterly direction at great speed and…
  • p. 18 …Linding in West virginia of radio waves equipment Spring 1959. In the spring of 1959 a…
  • p. 19 income to 2707:10, 3138. Radio sonde equipment found in West Windsor Spring 1959
  • p. 20 …A flash originating in the sky far to the west of Urnuda fell identified flying object…
  • p. 21 …he thought that it had relied on the garden ride of the ship first barrier west…
  • p. 28 …an object rising from a point due west of Blanding; signage, black, discharged small torches of…
  • p. 34 …0231-05073) at 5122004-157035 (GB 065948) west of MKCELAND. The two take-offs occurred within…
  • p. 37 …a parabolic trajectory moving from east to west with luminous white color which caused magnetic changes…
  • p. 45 …shifted position at high speed toward the west, and when she got it in focus, it…
  • p. 47 …59 min South 60 deg 32 min West), and Commander, Argentine Activity at Orcadas (Laurie Island…
  • p. 48 …WHITE LUMINOUS COLOR, NOT BRILLIANT, ROUND FORM, CLEAN OUTLINE, PARABOLIC TRAJECTORY WEST TO EAST, THREE ZERO…
  • p. 49 …LIKE A BRILLIANT STAR, MOVING EAST TO WEST CENTRAL TRAJECTORY WITH OSCILLATIONS, DISAPPEARING IN THE CLOUDS…
  • p. 52 …south and 160 kilometers from east to west. It is felt that there must have been…
  • p. 68 …TRACKS CROSS AT A POINT ON THE WEST OF DARGAVILLE TOWNSHIP. FROM A GENERAL INDICATION OF…
  • p. 81 …2. (U) This information was furnished USI by West Germany. The NO FOR-FEIGN DISSEM EXCEPT…
  • p. 119 …On the third occasion, it as observed at 6000 feet heading west. Estimated speed 100 knots…
  • p. 127 …0 11' SOUTH / 174 0 51.5' WEST $ 5. 3 9 3^{2}=1 1 5…
north-east of Kuldja, for an object containing instruments which apparently landed in that area. Some instruments suspectedly were found and detained by Chinese authorities.

These reports are significant in that they lend substance to the possibility of Sino-Soviet military/secret testing in Sikhilang Province. While the objects being jet aircraft is not discounted, it is noted that, in reporting officer's knowledge, interrogation reports of weapons from the Boulder area, or from contiguous areas in Sikhilang Province, have not made mention of the presence of jet aircraft.

While enacting from different sources, observing from different locations in the vicinity of Kulda, the information obtained above is necessarily consistent in date, time of day, and description. Collection among the these sources point to the interrogations is not evident.

These are discontinuities in the reporting on weight and direction of flight of the object (a) which misses the possibility that several, rather than one object, pose a concern.

One of the sources (Report 1907) noted that "on the bank of one of the youth's knowledge, no such phenomenon had been seen in that part of the world either before or since that time, at least up until the moment of his own departure in early March 1939". The other two sources have of no one else who had witnessed this phenomenon. This may indicate that miscellia/mystery possesses in this annual i.e., within the year and a half.

The launching of balloons in the general area of the object sightings may be related to upper atmosphere research in connection with small/medium testings.

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JAMES A. SHEE

JAVES C. SHEE,

Colonel, General Staff,

U.S. Army Lieutenant Officer.

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