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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. 3 …The object appeared to be gradually descending northward and finally disappeared beyond the horizon. The line…
  • p. 11 …a hardenous whitening ball of vapour which disappeared after 2-4 minutes, leaving in its about…
  • p. 12 …The object disappeared in three minutes in the clouds." (U) CONTENT: a. USAJIA has been unable…
  • p. 14 …The cloud and remained visible for two or three minutes, after which it disappeared, leaving in…
  • p. 16 …sky over CAMIL, moving South-east; it disappeared after two minutes." of Pakistan, having sighted three…
  • p. 17 …changed course from horizontal to vertical and disappeared; object visible for about five (5) minutes; trail…
  • p. 18 …bullet, had shot upwards still higher and disappeared from sight. It had remained in view altogether…
  • p. 20 …risen to a great height before finally disappearing in the west of yellowish color and required…
  • p. 21 …dozen to a great height before finally disappearing in the east. It had been about the…
  • p. 23 …Object did not appear to land, but disappeared behind the base on the horizon. No similar…
  • p. 28 …evening for a period of six weeks disappearing about 2200 each opening, following wave course; never…
  • p. 34 …sound after the object leveled off and disappeared in a westerly direction. BEST COPY AVAILABLE IAA…
  • p. 36 …hovered for a few minutes, and then disappeared in the sky. 16. DISTRIBUTION BY ORIGINATOR: USCINCSO…
  • p. 37 …later stopping from 5-10 minutes, then disappearing at great altitude. It was red, then yellowish…
  • p. 45 …making a vertical oscillating ascent, only to disappear rapidly. After five minutes the ACC operator again…
  • p. 49 …EAST TO WEST CENTRAL TRAJECTORY WITH OSCILLATIONS, DISAPPEARING IN THE CLOUDS, ELEVATION DURING ZERO DASH FOUR…
  • p. 55 …it for 15 minutes before it finally disappeared. No pictures were taken of the object. In…
  • p. 56 …The object was described as completely white, silent, flying at low altitude, and would disappear and…
  • p. 116 …the objects" then was withdrawn and they disappeared in different ways. (UP) 23 13. A. Herald…
  • p. 118 …again 1NM southeast of where it had disappeared, heading southeast. GCA lost it after 4-5NM…
# DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT

CONTINUATION SHEET	(Classification and Control Markings)	REPORT NO. 5 804 0048 65
PAGE 2 OR 3
ORIGINATOR
U.S. Naval Attache
Attache, Buenos Aires

HOURS. OBJECTED SIGHTED BY CIVILIAN METEOROLOGIST JORGE STANICH AND OBSERVED DURING FIVE SECOND PERIOD. OBJECT STATIONARY, COLORED A CLEAR BRILLIANT YELLOW, APPARENT DIAMETER ONE POINT FIVE CENTIMETERS AND SURROUNDED BY AN IRIDISCENT HALO, APPEARING UNDER A THICK CLOUDY CONDITION 300 METER CEILING AT TWO THREE ZERO DEGREES FROM TRUE NORTH AT TWO FIVE DEGREES ABOVE THE HORIZON. SAME OBSERVOR SIGHTED ON EIGHT JUNE AT ZERO TWO TWO ZERO HOURS DURING A FOUR SECOND PERIOD SIMILAR OBJECTS WITH AN APPARENT DIAMETER OF ONE CENTIMETER WIDE APPEARING UNDER THICK CLOUDY CEILING OF 300 METERS AT POINT THREETHREE ZERO DEGREES FROM TRUE NORTH AT FOUR ZERO DEGREES ABOVE THE HORIZON. BOTH OBSERVATIONS MADE FROM METEOROLOGICAL CAMP THIS BASE. ON TWO ZERO JUNE THE CHILEAN BASE COMMANDER (AGUIRRE CERDA BASE) REPORTED THAT AT ONE SIX TWO ZERO HOURS A LUMINOUS OBJECT LARGER THAN A FIRST MAGNITUDE STAR WAS OBSERVED BY HIMSELF, JUAN BARRERA; LIEUTENANT BENAVIDEZ (BOTH AF PILOTS), METEOROLOGIST CONCHA AND SEVEN OTHER PERSONS. OBJECT MANEUVERED RAPIDLY FOR TWO FIVE MINUTES OVER DECEPTION ISLAND AREA. AMPLIFYING INFORMATION TO FOLLOW.

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## 2. Second Message.

TO CHIEF HYDROGRAPHIC SERVICE

INFO CHIEF NAVY INTELLIGENCE SERVICE

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT SIGHTED ZERO THREE ONE SEVEN ZERO THREE BY TWO MEMBERS THIS BASE DURING ONE FIVE SECONDS. DESCRIPTION: WHITE LUMINOUS COLOR, NOT BRILLIANT, ROUND FORM, CLEAN OUTLINE, PARABOLIC TRAJECTORY WEST TO EAST, THREE ZERO DEGREES ABOVE THE HORIZON TOWARDS THE SOUTH, MOVED WITH INCREASING SPEED. VISUAL CONTACT LOST DUE TO CLOUDS.

3. Third Message.

DTG 041543 JULY.

ORIGINATOR CO DECEPTION ISLAND

TO CHIEF HYDROGRAPHIC SERVICE

INFO CHIEF NAVY INTELLIGENCE SERVICE

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS SIGHTED OVER DECEPTION ISLAND ON TWO JUNE OBSERVED BY METEOROLOGIST AT ENGLISH BRAVO BASE AND FOUR PERSONS. SIGHTING LASTED FOR FIFTEEN DASH TWENTY MINUTES AT ONE NINE FOUR FIVE HOURS ON A CLEAR NIGHT WITH ONE EIGHTH STRATOCUMULUS CONDITION AND STARRY SKY, MOON IN FOURTH QUARTER. OBJECT WAS MOVING RAPIDLY AND OF A BRILLIANT COLOR, SOLID APPEARANCE AND NOISELESS, PREDOMINATE COLOR RED AND GREEN BUT AT TIMES ELLOW BORDERED,

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