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Communications Intelligence (COMINT) reports Part C
National Security Agency · 25 pages · text by OCR
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.
“West”15 pages
- p. 1 …8245-8850, EIGHT UFO'S (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED SLOWLY FROM SW OF TOWARD WEST AND PASSED
- p. 2 …0713-1410, EIGHT UFO'S (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED SLOWLY FROM TOWARD WEST AND PASSED ALT 75…
- p. 4 …0810-0455, 11 UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED FROM AND WEST OF TOWARD WEST, PASSED SOUTH OF…
- p. 5 …70011-0740 RADAR TRACKED FOUR UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVING FROM BETWEEN AND TOWARD THE WEST, PASSING…
- p. 8 …0100-051, 17 UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED FROM WEST OF
ALT
82,000-88,200 FT…
- p. 9 …1633-1740, FIVE UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED FROM TOWARD WEST, PASSED AND FADED ALT 6,500…
- p. 10 …050-030, SEVEN UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED SLOWLY FROM NW OF TOWARD WEST AND PASSED
0529…
- p. 11 …1821-1401, 14
UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED SLOWLY FROM TOWARD WEST AND
PASSED ALT
66,000…
- p. 13 …035-063, 24 UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED FROM NW OF OWARD WEST AND PASSED OVER
FROM…
- p. 15 …0020-1244, 31 UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED FROM BETWEEN NORTH OF AND NE OF TOWARD WEST…
- p. 16 …Ø548-1004, FIVE UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED FROM WEST OF
TOWARD WEST, PASSED OVER AND ENTERED…
- p. 17 …8754-8819, ONE UFO (PROBABLY A BALLOON) MOVED FROM TOWARD WEST, ALT 63,888 FT. 6.
- p. 18 …8508-851, SIX UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED FROM NORTH OF TOWARD WEST AND PASSED OVER.
- p. 22 …RADAR TRACKED 27 UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVING FROM
TOWARD WEST, PASSING SE OF
#0016 NNN
- p. 25 …030-0625, 25 UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) BETWEEN SW OF AND WEST OF
6. UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO:
8019-1208. RADAR TRACKED 27 UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVING FROM
TOWARD WEST, PASSING SE OF
#0016 NNN
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