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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.
“Sightings”44 pages
- p. 1 …by the source on mysterious lights recently sighted in the sky over Flanish and nearby Soviet…
- p. 2 …It is difficult to obtain information on the sightings because of all have been reported to…
- p. 3 …recollecting a clover - a long clover - was sighted by two farmers latenearth east of pikematters, in…
- p. 8 …is not considered probable that these are sightings from established Russian text areas.
DISTRIBUTION BY OJUJATON…
- p. 9 …Illuminated objects of the same kind have been sighted near the border for a number of…
- p. 12 …USAJIA has been unable to secure further information about either of these sightings.
b. Afghanistan, with…
- p. 16 …disappeared after two minutes."
of Pakistan, having sighted three 600 within a period of two months…
- p. 18 …and found the object described below
## 1. Sighting from Foot Sinking of unidentified flying object
6…
- p. 22 …ID
OBJECT Aerial Sighting (U) DATE OF REPORT 28 July 1960
NO. OF PAGES 2
17…
- p. 23 …Time of sighting: About 2000 hours, 17 July 1960
Asimuth to object: About 90°
Angle of…
- p. 28 …2004/11 (date of information, Spring 1999); object sighted in evening for a period of six…
- p. 30 …The launching of balloons in the general area of the object sightings may be related to…
- p. 32 …2099/63 describing sighting in the Bay Area A nightly through period August to October 1962…
- p. 36 …A résumé of these reports of sightings is provided.
Sequence of Events and/or appearance of…
- p. 38 …The object was first sighted at 1555 and was described to be in the form of…
- p. 39 …Amembassy, Santiago, Chile Joint Week 27 of 9 July carried item on initial report of sightings…
- p. 41 …Many sightings have been reported in the northern area of Chile. Personal conversation with the Chilean…
- p. 47 …The messages summarize sightings by Argentine personnel, and reports that British and Chilean base personnel at…
- p. 48 …OBJECTED SIGHTED BY CIVILIAN METEOROLOGIST JORGE STANICH AND OBSERVED DURING FIVE SECOND PERIOD. OBJECT STATIONARY, COLORED…
- p. 49 …SOME PHOTOGRAPHY TAKEN OF THIS SIGHTING.
4. Fourth Message.
DTG 062100.
ORIGINATOR CO ORCADAS
TO CHIEF…
- p. 52 …The first four sightings list the observer as unknown. The last three sightings list officials (police…
- p. 55 …Reported sightings of Flying Saucers in Brazil
ISC NUMBER:
DATE OF INFORMATION: March 1967
Rio de…
- p. 56 A more recent reported sighting occurred on 30 March 1967 in Rio Comprido. However, this one…
- p. 57 …UFO Sighting
3. ISC NUMBER: DIRM 4A3e
4. DATE OF INFORMATION: 23 Apr 1967
5. PLACE…
- p. 60 …This report mentions a UFO sighting near KASHGAR, an oil field near BAI (4147N/8152E) and…
- p. 61 …UFO Sighting over Agadir, Morocco
DATE OF REPORT: 18 January 1967
NO. OF PAGES: 2
ISC…
- p. 62 …had to change their mind as the sight was turning into real science fiction.
Mr. Juan…
- p. 63 …UFO Sighting at Kasba Tadla, Morocco (32°36'N-06°17'W)
ISC NUMBER:
DATE OF…
- p. 65 …His first sighting was of an object on the ground near Auckland. In 1956 he observed…
- p. 66 …UFO Sightings as Plotted by National Airways Transportation Corporation Captain
TO: AFSC (FTD)
Wright-Patterson AFB…
- p. 67 ## TDEW
UFO Sightings as Plotted by National Airways Transportation Corporation Captain
Office of the Air Attache…
- p. 68 …WAS SIGHTED IN THE AREA JUST BEFORE THE SIGNALS FROM THE MARS SATELLITE WERE BEING RECEIVED…
- p. 69 …UFO Sightings as Plotted by National Airways Corporation Captain B. L. Cathie.
TO: AFSC (FTD)
Wright…
- p. 70 …UFO Sightings as Plotted by National Airways Corporation Captain B. L. Cathie
TO: AFSC (FTD)
Wright…
- p. 80 …He says these sightings placed the objects exactly over other intersections of the grid.
"He also…
- p. 86 …Describes area of most common sightings.
11. La Nacion (Buenos Aires) 18 July 68 - Describes landing…
- p. 118 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT
Aircraft lights or other sightings were seen. Crew of Knife…
- p. 119 …This headquarters is highly interested in such sightings and reports, and will continue to monitor such…
- p. 127 ROUGH MEASUREMENT OF RAPIDS CONVERTED TO FEET . ( FULL SIZE )
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
NEW VOLCANO SIGHTED BY TORVA…
- p. 136 …In addition, he said five (5) positive sightings had been made.
4. Approximately a week later…
- p. 137 …I Atch Sketch of Sighting Area
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- p. 138 …The aircraft orbitted the sighting area, and the pilot observed that he thought to be a…
- p. 139 …Radar and visual sightings of UFOs, such as that being checked out by the OV-10…
- p. 140 …Yet Thai military and police agencies continue to report helicopter sightings, or fail to report conflicting…
COLONEL J.J. BURNETT.
AIR ATTACHE.
UNITED STATES EMBASSY.
WELLINGTON.
DEAR SIR,
SINCE SHOWING YOU THE INFORMATION I HAD GATHERED ON U.F.O'S SOME WEEKS BACK, A FEW MORE INTERESTING FACTS HAVE COME TO MY NOTICE.
I HAVE A REPORT WHICH STATES THAT THE 'CANBERRA' U.F.O. WAS SIGHTED IN THE AREA JUST BEFORE THE SIGNALS FROM THE MARS SATELLITE WERE BEING RECEIVED, AND THAT IT LEFT SOON AFTERWARDS. IT WAS APPARENTLY HOVERING NEAR THE RECEIVING STATION DURING THE TIME THE GARBLED SIGNALS WERE INTERCEPTED.
ALSO THE SATELLITE ITSELF WAS APPARENTLY $ 7 \frac{1}{2} $ MINUTES LATE IN EMERGING FROM BEHIND MARS, CAUSING MUCH PUZZLEMENT TO THE SCIENTISTS.
THESE FACTS APPEAR MOST SIGNIFICANT TO ME, ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE IS ABSOLUTE SILENCE FROM THE PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS SUCH AS 'TIME' MAGAZINE.
ALSO TWO WEEKS AGO THREE U.F.O'S WERE OBSERVED IN THE DARGAVILLE AREA. SOME OF THE CREW OF A NAVAL COASTAL BOAT SAW THEM BESIDES SEVERAL CIVILIANS. I CHECKED MY MAPS AND SURE ENOUGH TWO OF MY PLOTTED TRACKS CROSS AT A POINT ON THE WEST OF DARGAVILLE TOWNSHIP. FROM A GENERAL INDICATION OF THE NEW ZEALAND SIGHTINGS I BELIEVE THAT THE GRID TO THE NORTH OF DARGAVILLE ON THE WESTERN COAST HAS YET TO BE COMPLETED. FURTHER SIGHTINGS IN THE NORTH MAY CONFIRM THIS.
I AM MOST CURIOUS TO KNOW WHAT RE-ACTION WAS RECEIVED FROM THE STATES TO THE INFORMATION I SUPPLIED.
IF THE RE-ACTION WAS NEGATIVE I FEEL THAT I AM COMPLETELY FREE TO PUBLISH ALL THE INFORMATION THAT I HAVE GATHERED. IN THIS WAY I AM SURE THAT FURTHER FACTS WILL FIND THEIR WAY TO ME SO THAT I MAY BE NEARER TO THE COMPLETE ANSWER.
I AM ON INDEFINITE LEAVE AT THIS TIME DUE TO AN EAR OPERATION AND DO NOT KNOW WHEN MY NEXT VISIT TO WELLINGTON WILL BE. I WOULD BE MOST INTERESTED TO HEAR OF ANY DEVELOPMENTS.
I REMAIN.
YOURS FAITHFULLY.
USAF reference : no cause for that vice spirit .
CAPTAIN B.L. CATHIE.
NATIONAL AIRWAYS CORPORATION. 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.