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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. 10 …The object was circular in shape with a bluish white light at Puntarenas and it was…
  • p. 11 …late Bublaja Persian, occupying on a medium white light in the sky (a hardenous whitening ball…
  • p. 14 …of white vapor behind. Although the cloud was luminous itself it did not light up the…
  • p. 18 …The object had the brilliant light yellow colour of a star and the size of one…
  • p. 22 …MOT Riese - Two lights initially; color - bright white with a trail; 2 seconds later, 3 lights…
  • p. 28 …appeared to be a glowing sphere of white light about nine of full moon and appeared…
  • p. 37 …white and bluish white in appearance and had 4 or 5 appendages (rays of light) which…
  • p. 41 …It emitted a light of an intense color, then changed and turned to radiant white. It…
  • p. 49 …STATIONARY LIGHT AT TIMES AND OF SOLID APPEARANCE LIKE A CELESTIAL BODY, NOISELESS, WHITE COLOR WITH…
  • p. 118 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT Aircraft lights or other sightings were seen. Crew of Knife…
1. COUNTRY. CHILE	8. REPORT NUMBER: 1 817 0046 65
2. SUBJECT: Unidentified Flying Objects	9. DATE OF REPORT: 23 July 1965
3. ISC NUMBER:	10. NO. OF PAGES: 4
4. DATE OF INFORMATION: Current	11. REFERENCES: DIRM 1 A 3 A, 4 A 2 b (2), 4 A 3 C, 4 A 3 e
5. PLACE AND DATE OF ACQ: Santiago, Chile, various	12. ORIGINATOR: U. S. Air Attache, Santiago, Chile
6. EVALUATION: SOURCE: F INFORMATION 6	13. PREPARED BY: HUBERT A. BRANDON, Colonel, USAF
7. SOURCE: Personal Contact with Chilean Nationals, Neswpaper articles, Chilean Air Force Personnel	14. APPROVING AUTHORITY: G. F. SHARP, CAPT, USN, DATT
15. SUMMARY: A rash of unidentified flying object information has been reported personally and through various newspapers in the Latin American area. A résumé of these reports of sightings is provided.
Sequence of Events and/or appearance of Unidentified Flying Objects in Latin America.
1. On 21 June a fundo owner and his wife who live near a little town of Mininco, approximately 900 kilometers south southwest of Santiago reported to the Air Attache the following three instances of having seen strange objects. These events were reported prior to the time that any reports appeared in the newspapers.
a. During the last week of February 1965 about 2000 hours local, a round red and yellow object descended in the vicinity of their farm, hovered for a few minutes, and then disappeared in the sky.
16. DISTRIBUTION BY ORIGINATOR: USCINCSO	17. DOWNGRADING DATA: 1 Atch Newspaper clippings (5 sheets)

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