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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.

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“radar tracked”14 pages

  • p. 5 …70011-0740 RADAR TRACKED FOUR UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVING FROM BETWEEN AND TOWARD THE WEST, PASSING…
  • p. 6 …SECTION SEVEN FOLLOWING INFORMATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS: 11. T O…
  • p. 7 …RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS: 14. G. UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS: 23 UFO'S. TOP SECRET…
  • p. 8 …RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO): A. 0100-051, 17 UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED FROM…
  • p. 9 …RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO). A. 1633-1740, FIVE UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED FROM…
  • p. 10 …RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO): A. 050-030, SEVEN UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED SLOWLY…
  • p. 14 CATEGORY = 488 MESSAGE = 93648327 LH #BB15 2128548 F. RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS: ONE.
  • p. 15 …RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO): A. 0020-1244, 31 UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED FROM…
  • p. 16 …RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO): 1216-1234, FOUR UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS MOVED FROM TOWARD…
  • p. 17 …RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT (UFO): 8754-8819, ONE UFO (PROBABLY A BALLOON) MOVED FROM…
  • p. 19 …RADAR TRACKING OF
  • p. 22 …RADAR TRACKED 27 UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVING FROM TOWARD WEST, PASSING SE OF #0016 NNN
  • p. 23 …RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS: A. 1018-1609, 18 UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED OVER ALT…
  • p. 24 ## TOP SECRET UMBRA OBJECTS (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVING SLOWLY FROM THE VICINITY OF RADAR TRACKED 33 FLTS…
CATEGORY = 488

MESSAGE = 83648256

LH #8017 2828713

ZNY MMNSH

INFORMATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED

7. RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS: A. 1018-1609, 18 UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED OVER ALT 75,500-85 300 FT. B. 1408-1545, 22 UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED OVER ALT 86,000 FT.

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