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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. 11 …7C WE RECRUIT WORK AFFILIATE AND SCIENCE FILE COPY MUST BE RETURNED TO INTELLIGENCE DOCUMENT RECEIVER…
  • p. 21 …from illustrations had seen in aircraft procurement works. They had appeared to him to be willing…
  • p. 49 …TWO VARIOMETERS WORKING AFFECTED BY MAGNETIC FIELD DISTURBANCE DURING THE TIME OBJECT SIGHTED. Comment: Foregoing messages…
  • p. 65 …but now offers no objection to his work in the field. He has no ax to…
  • p. 75 …equalled or even approached by any other work of man's hands that has ever been…
  • p. 80 …all been sightings of the same object. "Working on that assumption I fixed its line of…
  • p. 122 …It now requires Specialists in various branches of Scientific knowledge to carry on the work to…
  • p. 123 that when the work is completed it is logical to assume that direct contact will take…
  • p. 131 …Findley, had interceded for him and obtained government approval for his work. He then asked the…
  • p. 133 …FROM THE SRI AS I HAVE BEEN WORKING TO FOUR WHOLE NUMBERS IN HARMONICS I MISSED…
  • p. 134 …Have also worked out seven dates for bomb tests 'Mururoa'. Have now found that a spherical…
  • p. 136 …The British Scientific Counselor believes the original announcement of the work of the commission on TV…
1. COUNTRY. INDONESIA	8. REPORT NUMBER:	1 845 0016 65
2. SUBJECT: (U) Article on Objects Falling From 9. DATE OF REPORT:	25 Jan 1965
3. ISC NUMBER:	2
4. DATE OF INFORMATION:	15 Oct 64
5. PLACE AND DATE OF ACQ: Surabaja/19 Nov 64
6. EVALUATION: SOURCE C INFORMATION 2
7. SOURCE: Press
5. SUMMARY:
(U) This report concerns information condensed from two news articles from the Surabaja press, one in English and the other translated into English from the original. Both news articles are on the same subject, namely, objects falling from aircraft performing acrobatics and efforts on the part of AURI to dispel apprehensions of Surabaja populace that enemy aircraft are being shot down.
1. (U) Capt SUMAKNO, Deputy Commander of Squadron 3 at his Headquarters in PERAK AFB, Surabaja, said during a press interview that Squadron 3 is training a number of young pilots in certain skills, including so-called acrobatic flying. During training flights over Surabaja, parts of the planes have fallen off and were found by people in the villages. This is not unusual, the Captain said, and people should not worry about it. Capt SUMAKNO and Capt UMAR, an officer from Operations Wing 002, both said there are aircraft training over Surabaja every day by pilots who have just graduated from the AURI Aviation Academy to become fighter pilots.
2. (U) Both captains said that on 1 Oct 64 the top fell from an aircraft during aerial acrobatics. This plane was not shot down. On Oct 2nd a crash helmet fell

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