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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. 2 …just another and insurers indulge in an objection over theighting believe that the insurer is engaged…
  • p. 20 …object left a trail of dark smoke. Duration 2-3 minutes after passing of the object…
  • p. 26 …It seemed the bright light and darkness of a trajectory were the city, then curiously held…
  • p. 37 …About one week later another strange object appeared for about 10 minutes between 2230 and 2300…
  • p. 118 …Crew of Knife 27 suspected objects escaped by descending below radar capability. B. On 020326L Dec…

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