Documents / FOIA release

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…
10. La Gente (Buenos Aires) 18 July 68 - (Photo) Explains Comision Observadora de Objetos Voladores No Identificados (CODOVNI). Describes area of most common sightings.

11. La Nacion (Buenos Aires) 18 July 68 - Describes landing of UFO in Chos Malal on 16 July with forces emenating.

12. La Nacion, (Buenos Aires) 19 July 68 - Relates sightings by tower operator at Mendoza and pilot flying between Mendoza and Santiago, Chile. Also same source recounts sighting at Balboa, Spain.

13. La Razon (Buenos Aires) 26 July 68 - Describes attempt by five policeman in Olavarría to capture and later shoot three crewmembers of UFO.

14. La Cronica (Buenos Aires) 26 July 68 - Relates sightings of UFO's at San Carlos de Bariloche, Cordoba, and Coquimbo, Chile.

15. La Nacion (Buenos Aires) 27 July 68 - Describes sighting by persons in Laguna Paiva.

16. La Razon (Buenos Aires) 27 July 68 - (Photo) Relates new sightings near La Pastora, General Alvear, and Tapalque. The latter describes the crew and inability of machine-gun bullets to affect them.

17. Cronica (Buenos Aires) 30 July 68 - Reports testimony of Dr. James McDonald of the U.S. House of Representatives, sighting at Puntal del Este force from which caused motor of car to stall, near Cauquenes, Chile.

18. Clarin (Buenos Aires) 31 July 68 - (Photo) Describes and gives photos of a sighting in Lanus.

19. La Nacion (Buenos Aires) 1 Aug 68 - From Madrid, Fernando Sesma, president of the Association of Friends of the Visitors from Space, theorized that these visitors have picked Argentina as the place to begin the conquest of earth.

20. La Nacion (Buenos Aires) 2 August 68 - Describes a minute sighting near Rosario.

21. Asi (Buenos Aires) 3 Aug 68 - (Photo) Describes a sighting with photos near Trelew on 13 July 68.

22. La Razon (3 Aug 68) - Relates argument by a Professor Alexander Erú supporting theory of flying saucers.

23. Buenos Aires Herald (Buenos Aires) 8 Aug 68 - Describes in-space rendezvous between two UFO's between Indio Rico and Tres Arroyos, Argentina.

COMMENTS: This report describes the rash of sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO's) presently occurring in Argentina and how this subject is the item of primary interest to the local populace. This report supplements IR 1 804 0121 68.

Not linked to a story yet.

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.