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Communications Intelligence (COMINT) reports Part A

National Security Agency · 25 pages · text by OCR

This National Security Agency release, of unknown date, collects communications intelligence (COMINT) message excerpts classified Secret Spoke and Top Secret Umbra. The messages report radar tracking of unidentified flying objects, giving times, directions of movement, distances and altitudes ranging from about 10,000 to 100,000 feet. Most entries describe the objects as probably balloons. The locations of the tracking are redacted, and some serial lines refer to March and April 1979.

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  • p. 4 …RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENIIFIED FLYING OBJECT (UFO): 8601-1340 ONE UFO (PROBABLY A BALLOON) NOVED FROM…
  • p. 6 …RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO): A. 0935-1026, ONE UFO (PROBABLY A BALLOON) MOVED…
  • p. 7 …RADAR TRACKING OF
  • p. 9 …RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT (UFO): 0950-1349, ONE UFO (PROBABLY A BALLOON) MOVED FROM…
  • p. 10 …RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT (UFO): 854-930, ONE UFO (PROBABLY A BALLOON) MOVED FROM…
  • p. 11 …RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO): 9900-1800, 13 UFO MOVED FROM , PASSED AND FADED
  • p. 14 …RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO): A. 0435-0520, FOUR UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED FROM…
  • p. 17 …RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO): A. 0900-1210, FOUR UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED SLOWLY…
  • p. 19 …RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO): 0225-0946, 18 UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED FROM THE…
  • p. 21 …RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO): 9810-1329, 21 FUO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) AND 1620-1735…
  • p. 22 …RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO): 950-1218, EIGHT UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED FROM THE…
  • p. 24 …RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS. (UFO): A. 0255-0746, SIX UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED SLOWLY…
  • p. 25 …RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO): A. 035-0430, ONE TOP SECRET UNDRAFT
MESSAGE = 03749107

THIS MESSAGE IS CLASSIFIED SECRET SPOKE IN ITS ENTIRETY. THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED.

RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO): 9900-1800, 13 UFO MOVED FROM , PASSED AND FADED

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