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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…
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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