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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. 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 1 cy, 1 pg $\textcircled{1}$ $ \neq $ A
  • 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…
Are we being watched? Here is startling evidence that man's destiny may not be in his own hands...

# UFO sightings form global grid

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He has written a book using his calculations to support a startling theory that "aucers" are establishing an intricate grid system.

Captain Cathle told The Sunday Times he had no interest in speculation about title green men" or the sible origin of "saucers." "All I'm interested in is a mathematical proof of y grid theory," he said.

"We have had his calculations checked by a mathematician at Victoria University — the wordlet is that figures DO add up," the presentative said.

His complicated maths have been proved correct, a representative of the book's publishers said this week.

the point to a continental airline officer. Captain Bruce Cathle, of Auckland.

He said he realised his theory could be held in dispute by scapegoats because he had begun his calculations after sighting an unidentifiable object himself.

"I now over a cigar-shaped stationary object above Kaipara Harbour, near Dargaville, about three years ago," he said.

"I was able to fix its position accurately, and that prumpled me to collect other sightings which had been verified by more than one source, and which enabled the position of the objects to be fixed.

## suspicion

## Pattern

"From all these I began to get some suspicion, that a pattern was developing.

"I found that verified sightings in a number of particular cases four years

age, for instance, indicated that they had all been sightings of the same object.

"Working on that assumption I fixed its line of travel and extended the line north.

"I found it exactly intersected the point where I had made my Kalpana Harbour observation a year later.

"Extending the line south gave an intersection over the D'Urville Island area — this time crossing the line of travel of an object which had been seen over the Wairarapa.

"Significantly, I found that other verified reports made at the same time as the Warrarapa sightings had placed an object exploding in midair over the same D'Urville Island area."

Captain Cathie said these intersections gave him the basis of his theory — by matching up other verified sightings he found that a grid pattern of precise measurement emerged.

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"I'm led toward this idea because many of the world's notable geographic features lie on the intersections of the grids." he said.

"It could be that they are being rebuilt.

Captain Cathie believes the grids may have existed once before on the world's surface.

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## Figures accurate

"This got me pretty excited, because it meant that anyone using the grid coordinates would get mathematically accurate faces on any predetermined position."

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## Beacons

The geographic features included the Arizona Crater, the Chubb Crater in Quebec and the Wolf Creek Crater in Western Australia.

A representative of A. H. and A. W. Reed, the company publishes. Cathle's book, said a Victoria University mathematician had thoroughly checked the statistics and calculations.

The mathematician had reported that Captain Cathle's figures were completely accurate.

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- CAPTAIN BRUCE CATHIE . . . "not interested in little green men, only mathematical proof."

"But Captain Cathle is just as likely to be right as anyone else."

The representative said British publishing rights for the book had been arranged. However, it would not be available in New Zealand before March next year.

Using these measurements he drew up a grid covering New Zealand.

--thinks the "saucers" could be placing a type of beacon on the intersections, giving the grids physical proportions.

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Then, he says, he went back through records and gathered verified "saucer" reports dealing only with stationary, fixed-position objects.

"I believe the intersections are being covered systematically," he said.

He says these sightings placed the objects exactly over other intersections of the grid.

"He also reported that Captain Cathie's deductions could be unwarranted," the representative said.

"At the moment, even though the world pattern seems to have begun in 1946, sightings relevant to the grids show that intersections over populated areas have been left largely clear.

"I think the 'saucers' could be leaving the buildup areas till last, perhaps to minimise the chances of observation."

Captain Cathie said he would not speculate about the purpose of the grids.

"We expect it will cause quite a stir," he said.

relate accurately to the mathematics of the earth's mass, gravity acceleration and the speed of light."

"But if it gives a clue to anyone else with better knowledge than mine, the mathematics of the grids

## Chance

"In turn, this gave me the pattern of a second.

Captain Cathie said he applied his New Zealand calculations to a grid covering the world and once again found verified sightings placed "saucers" over intersections.

"Many sightings since then - including several over the Tautaga area in the last six months - have conformed to the grid pattern," he said.

## discovery

"Several verified sightings did not match up with the grid pattern, and I discovered that this distance between these exactly equaled with my original figures.

"Then I stumbled on a chance mathematical discovery," he said.

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About this file

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.