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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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“The Star”15 pages

  • p. 9 …the size of a star that slowly moved from west to east, so far behind the…
  • p. 14 …star and which was pulsating. The light had then rived in an east direction into the…
  • p. 18 …The object had the brilliant light yellow colour of a star and the size of one…
  • p. 20 …the west of Urnuda fell identified flying object recording the size of an ordinary star, but…
  • p. 21 …It had been about the time of an ordinary star and all a yellowish colour, and…
  • p. 25 …He had noticed, however, that the star surrounding it had been observed for a moment by…
  • p. 28 …the first one evening in summer of 1959; round object the size of a small star…
  • p. 31 …The light had been star-shaped and yellowish. Two or three days later the same peasant…
  • p. 37 …The angle was estimated at 20° and of the size of a star of the first…
  • p. 38 …People from this base said that they had observed an object of star of the first…
  • p. 41 …The night was cloudy and without stars. I was not the only one who saw this…
  • p. 48 …ON TWO ZERO JUNE THE CHILEAN BASE COMMANDER (AGUIRRE CERDA BASE) REPORTED THAT AT ONE SIX…
  • p. 49 …A BRILLIANT STAR, MOVING EAST TO WEST CENTRAL TRAJECTORY WITH OSCILLATIONS, DISAPPEARING IN THE CLOUDS, ELEVATION…
  • p. 58 …The lines were red and the small stars formed at the end of the lines were…
  • p. 62 …The object had an impressive volume, four times bigger than that of a star. It was…
Office of the Air Attache American Embassy Wellington, New Zealand

SUBJECT: UFO Sightings as Plotted by National Airways Transportation Corporation Captain

TO: AFSC (FTD)

Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433

1. Attached prints were given to me this date by Captain B. L. Cathie, National Airways Corporation of New Zealand Airline Captain.

2. Captain Cathie visited with me for about one half hour. I observed this New Zealander to be not only rational but intelligent and convinced that certain UFO's he and others have seen are from outer space - probably Venus. He hesitated in expressing his beliefs re the Venus origin explaining that it usually tended to convince people that he was a bit of a 'crackpot'.

3. The pictures and descriptions on reverse sides are self-explanatory and are forwarded for your information.

4. If you are interested, Capt Cathie can elaborate considerably on his findings in accordance with AFR 200-2. After further questioning, he explained that he could best pretray his findings on a world globe at least three feet in diameter. It would be necessary for your office to furnish the globe - or funds to purchase one.

JOHN J. BURNETT, JR.

Colonel, USAF

US Air Attacho

Atch

Seven (7) Photographs -Not AVAILABLE

with notations

Not linked to a story yet.

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FOIA release, from the dia collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 140 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.