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This National Security Agency release gathers COMINT message traffic classified up to Top Secret Umbra, including a message dated August 1978, and one message cites COS Taipei. The messages list radar tracking of unidentified flying objects by time window, count, direction of movement and altitude. Most entries describe the objects as probably balloons moving slowly toward the west, at altitudes from about 6,500 to 100,000 feet. The released text has the place names redacted.
“object followed”10 pages
CATEGORY = 4BB MESSAGE = 336483BB LH #2811 2E83625 ZNY MMNSH FOLLOWING INFORMATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED 6. RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO): 1216-1234, FOUR UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS MOVED FROM TOWARD WEST, ALT 89,000 FT. 7. UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO): A. Ø548-1004, FIVE UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED FROM WEST OF TOWARD WEST, PASSED OVER AND ENTERED , ALT 66,000 FT. B. 1615-1810, 50 UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED FROM WEST OF TOWARD WEST, PASSED OVER AND ENTERED , ALT 6,500-20,000 FT. 1731-1812, UFO ALT 15,BBB-23,BBB FT.
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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.