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Unidentified Flying Objects Reports

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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.

  • p. 10 …The following are the results of the effecting the net loss of the business under the…
  • p. 12 …10 2130720 SUBJECT UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS DATE OF REPORT 3 Dec 59 NO. OF PAGES 2…
  • p. 16 …1959, published the following item: 2 Dec 59: "A bright circular object was observed in the…
  • p. 20 …October 1950, of an unidentified flying object with the following characteristics. A flash originating in the…
  • p. 28 …The following reports all give similar details on unidentified flying objects observed over Western Balkan Provinces…
  • p. 36 …the Air Attache the following three instances of having seen strange objects. These events were reported…
  • p. 37 …About one week later another strange object appeared for about 10 minutes between 2230 and 2300…
  • p. 38 …People from this base said that they had observed an object of star of the first…
  • p. 41 During 13 to 14 minutes this strange object followed us. It gave me the impression that…
  • p. 45 that the Investigation Center for Unidentified Objects (ICUO) was established, which maintains that the UFO's…
  • p. 48 …OBJECT MANEUVERED RAPIDLY FOR TWO FIVE MINUTES OVER DECEPTION ISLAND AREA. AMPLIFYING INFORMATION TO FOLLOW. ## BT…
  • p. 52 …On the basis of the colors of these unknown flying objects: (1) The illuminated object must…
  • p. 62 …Suddenly, at 1743 hours, a round luminous object with a fantastic speed and an exceptional brightness…
  • p. 65 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT objects since 1952. His first sighting was of an object…
  • p. 72 …I believe my theories to be correct because of the following reasons: (1) Once I had…
  • p. 118 …Crew of Knife 27 suspected objects escaped by descending below radar capability. B. On 020326L Dec…
  • p. 130 …Cited references describe the source and his theory of Unidentified Flying Object. Source is still employed…
  • p. 138 …At the time, the pilot was searching for unidentified flying objects pursuant to an earlier Base…
## OBSERVATIONS OF ATTRACE XILABORATED OBJECTS IN THE BORNATER SIX DURING THE AUGUST OF OCTOBER . . . AND NOVEMBER 1904 . . .

10. 10.1939 at 19.10.1939 near in the village of Martine in the province of Succesalai sphere alquine; with a rudish-gallery light was sighted rising over the trestops in the sky in the northwest. The sphere appeared to stay clearly to and fro for a couple of minutes and thereafter to descend. The weather conditions were bright and there were almost no clouds.

Illuminated objects of the same kind have been sighted near the border for a number of years and they have been regarded as signals for night-flying aircraft. Ordinarily such spheres have been visible, however, for an extended period of time (several hours).

27. 11.1968 after 82 hours a party of six persons sighted a remarkable light phenomenon in the southern sky above Najumi. From a great altitude there fell earthward an orange-red sphere on the left margin of which was a gap (notch). The sphere fell to the height of the treetops, where it glued for a couple of minutes as if suspended and then plunged into the forest. The sphere appeared larger than the moon. The phenomenon faded away in a southeasterly direction. No natural explanation for the phenomenon has been given.

17,11,1864 at Olsv. hours. There was situated in the village of Pursa, in the corner of Successful, previously,附近. In the yard at Kiva Farm, in labour A be part of... border park. That a redish ashura, which was visible for some minutes, in direction of 50. The ashura, the ashura at an angle of about 40 degrees in relation to the ground and appeared to be full ashura, in alam. The same kind of brilliant architectural object... was visible for a short time on October 10th at this year near the village of Pursa... (attributed about it, in northwest of the village of Bursala...

Wall, 1958, at Khalil Aura film portents, returning from Bulukalahti, in the rural commune of Jalalul, in Kelantan, in village about five kilometers northeast of the town of Kuala Lumpur, sighted a strange illuminated object to the east of the highway. Elongated in shape and at during natural motion in length, it appeared to be traveling at high speed toward the south, fairly near the observers on the eastern side of the road, simultaneously, the object illuminated the whole vicinity like a flash of lightning, and a rather low noise accompanied its flight, resembling the hiss of a short-circuit in a high tension power line. The object was visible for at least a couple of minutes and gradually faded away by rising into the southern sky. The phenomenon was quite plain to see and the travelers halted their horses in order to watch the spectacle for as long as it lasted.

27. 11.1917 at 07.30 hours, at the frontier in the commune of Guomussalmi area, border worker 723, started about midway between the villages of Jantice and Turus), was sighted in the northern sky, in direction 54.00, a sphere throwing on a reddish and nearing three times the size of a star that slowly moved from west to east, so far behind the edge of the forest after about five minutes. The distance from the point to the sphere was several dozen, perhaps several hundred kilometers.

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