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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 …Elongated in shape and at during natural motion in length, it appeared to be traveling at…
  • p. 17 …Object observed from Kaldja expressing from distant west in an easterly direction at great speed and…
  • p. 18 …It about 11 o'clock one clear starry night in the spring of 1955 an unusual…
  • p. 29 …A draft about 15 centimetres long pertained from one end of the bag at the end…
  • p. 31 …A shaft about fifteen centimetres long had protruded from one end of the box and at…
  • p. 41 …at an altitude of 8,500 feet, at a speed of 500 Kms. The night was…
  • p. 48 …DASH TWENTY MINUTES AT ONE NINE FOUR FIVE HOURS ON A CLEAR NIGHT WITH ONE EIGHTH…
  • p. 49 …PERSONS AT THE CHILEAN BASE AGUIRRE CERDA OBSERVED DURING TWO ZERO MIN (CLEAR NIGHT, TWO EIGHTS…
  • p. 118 …Historically, Thai pilots have been reluctant to fly at night, but the moon in recent days…
  • p. 119 …However, there is no evidence at present time to indicate rash of recent "Bogies" reported near…
  • p. 122 …I spent last night in Invercargill. This is the first chance I have had to make…
  • p. 138 …The religious procession left Ban Sang Hin at approximately 2000 hours 23 August 1969, arrived at…
  • p. 139 …While Thai pilots had historically been reluctant to fly at night, a recent full moon had…
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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