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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. 13 …1420-1600, THREE UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED FROM TOWARD WEST SLOWLY AND FADED ALT 69,000…
  • p. 14 …0435-0520, FOUR UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED FROM WEST OF TOWARD SOUTH, PASSED EAST OF AND…
  • p. 15 …9999-9930, TWO UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED FROM 43 NAUTICAL MILES SE OF TOWARD WEST AND…
  • p. 17 …0900-1210, FOUR UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED SLOWLY FROM NW OF TOWARD WEST, PASSED AND ENTERED…
  • p. 19 …0225-0946, 18 UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED FROM THE AREA BETWEEN AND TOWARD WEST, PASSED AND…
  • p. 22 …950-1218, EIGHT UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED FROM THE AREA NEAR OWARD WEST AND FADED AND…
  • p. 24 …0255-0746, SIX UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED SLOWLY FROM SW OF TOWARD WEST AND PASSED ALT…
CATEGORY = 458

MESSAGE = 368994

LH #B11 264754

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Report, from the nsa 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. 25 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.