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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.
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ب. 1. COUNTRY. COMMUNIST CHINA 2. SUBJECT: (U) UFO Seen Near KASHGAR 3. ISC NUMBER: 4. DATE OF INFORMATION: December 1965 5. PLACE AND DATE OF ACQ: Hong Kong, April 1967 6. EVALUATION: SOURCE F INFORMATION 6 7. SOURCE: 8. REPORT NUMBER: 1 842 0047 07 9. DATE OF REPORT: 27 April 1967 10. NO. OF PAGES: 1 11. REFERENCES: DIRM 1P7f(2), 2F2, 5C1b 12. ORIGINATOR: USAIRLO, Hong Kong, BCC 13. PREPARED BY: 14. APPROVING AUTHORITY: ROBERT F. PHILLIPS, Lt. Col., GS Acting US Defense Liaison Officer 5. SUMMARY: This report mentions a UFO sighting near KASHGAR, an oil field near BAI (4147N/8152E) and reported uranium mining at TALDY (4337N/8149E). COLLENT: There is a remote possibility that the UFO described in paragraph 1. of this report is in fact an eyewitness account of several Chinese Communist MRBM nosecone re-entries in the vicinity of KASHGAR (3931N/7558E). To be sure, the description in the report is not convincing, and it is not known if the interviewer entertained the nosecone possibility when directing his questions to the Source. The time period given for the sightings as August through December 1965 is also earlier than most estimates for Chinese Communist MRBM flight trials. However, the KASHGAR area is roughly in the vicinity of the furthest impact area (1,100 NM down range) of the test range facilities at SHUANG-CH'ENG-TZU (DIA SIS 106-65). BEST COPY AVAILABLE 1. DISTRIBUTION BY ORIGINATOR: CINCPAC w/o Encl CINCPACAF w/1 Encl 1 cy CINCUSARPAC w/1 Encl 5 cys 13th AF w/1 Encl 1 cy 500th w/1 Encl 1 cy Det 4 FTD w/1 Encl 1 cy POL SEC HKONG w/o Encl 17. DOWNGRADING DATA: REQUEST ATTACHMENT FROM DIAAP 10AZ
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