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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.

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  • p. 37 …Strong winds prevented mounting photographic equipment. On Saturday a similar body was seen at a lower…
  • p. 38 …One of the spectators took a photograph of the objects." 5. The 20 July edition of…
  • p. 65 …times his belief that the strange object photographed by the USNS ELTAN IN, 1965-1966 geodetic…
  • p. 66 …Colonel, USAF US Air Attacho Atch Seven (7) Photographs -Not AVAILABLE with notations
  • p. 67 …We are returning the seven photographs with notations. 2. The attached brochure depicts the findings and…
  • p. 72 …E., and also the aerial type object photographed by the "Eltanin" off the coast of South…
  • p. 129 …to a depth of about 100 feet. Photographs cannot show Pueblo's most sensitive gear, which…
CONTINUATION SHEET	(Classification and Control Markings)	REPORT NO. 1 845 0016 65
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ORIGINATOR
OAIRA, Djakarta
from an aircraft during an exercise in which the canopy had to be open. On Oct 13th, the top (ED: Probably means the canopy) from another plane came loose and fell to the ground.
3. (U) Capt SUMAKNO appealed to the public to report any fallen objects from the air to the authorities or directly to Squadron 3 at PERAK AFB so that the things could be identified.

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