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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.
“Sightings”44 pages
TRANSLATION OF WRITTEN NARRATIVE BY J. R. CARLOS Memorandum Concerning Phenomenon Observed Sunday, 23 April 1967 At Approximately 8:00 P. M. At approximately the hour indicated above, my wife was watering the flowers in the window boxes of our house; I was near a bedroom window which she had left open. She asked me to close the window and when I approached it I was surprised to see the sky so clear and full of stars. At this moment I noticed a star of surprising magnitude; my surprise was even greater when I observed it was moving from the Southwest to the Northeast. Its size was greater than Venus in its most visible periods. I called to my children and to my wife; they saw the star (as we will call the object) which was moving and had a very intense brilliance, with no change of color, giving off a clear yellow light with uniform rays. We ran out to the fields near our house and I carried binoculars (Zeiss) which are very powerful. As I leaned on a fence to control my nerves, I called out to my children that I saw a star of a dull red color, without the rays which normally appear around a star; it was moving toward the star which had first interested us. At first I thought it was an optical illusion since the other star was also moving in the same direction, but, on training the binoculars on the red star, I noticed it was increasing in size and therefore must be moving. I called out to my children to look at the second star but found it was not visible to the eye and it was also being covered by a cloud. The two stars rapidly approached each other; both appeared to be at the same altitude or height on horizon but the red star was moving faster. On looking again at the area I could only see the large star which had somewhat changed its direction, moving more to the North. (Larger star is the yellow star.) I realized this change of direction later; I did not stop to think about it at the time but when I was reconstructing my observations I remembered it. I did note at the time that the larger star was moving more rapidly but without losing brilliance, and while I was observing it there was no change of color or any flashes. The drawing attached shows the larger star at the moment I saw multiple red lines moving from one side to the other, making a kind of zig-zag and, at the end of some of these lines, what appeared to be small rays, completely rectilinear, forming small stars of enormous brilliance. The lines were red and the small stars formed at the end of the lines were of a very brilliant clear red color. At this moment the clouds lifted and my wife could see the multiple lights or stars that formed. In summary, this phenomenon seemed to come from one object which moved rapidly from one place to another, leaving behind a red line which faded out with a sort of flash; it was not like the explosions of fireworks in which there are a number of rocket flashes at the same time. I believe that the two objects crashed together but, unfortunately, I let my children use the binoculars and tried to direct their vision toward the two stars; also, the observation took place during some 80 seconds so there was no time. I do know that the larger star was already somewhat out of the zone where I saw the explosions when they appeared. It could be that there was some delay in finding the area when my children returned the binoculars, but when I again located it, it was difficult moving fast and had somewhat trajectory. Signed: J. R. CARLOS C.
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