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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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  • p. 1 MESSAGE = 365861 LH #0012 2230603 THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS…
  • p. 5 …THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED: UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO): 70011-0740 RADAR TRACKED FOUR UFO…
  • p. 6 …SECTION SEVEN FOLLOWING INFORMATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS: 11. T O…
  • p. 7 …FIGHT THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED F. RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS: 14. G…
  • p. 8 …SECTION EIGHT FOLLOWING INFORMATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED 7. RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO): A…
  • p. 10 …INTEL SECTION THREE FOLLOWING INFORMATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED 5. UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO): 0655-0905, EIGHT…
  • p. 15 …MMNSH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED 5. RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO): A…
  • p. 16 …ZNY MMNSH FOLLOWING INFORMATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED 6. RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO): 1216…
  • p. 17 …CITE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED 5. RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT (UFO): 8754…
  • p. 19 …2112 THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS: I2. F. RADAR TRACKING OF
CATEGORY = 433

MESSAGE = 03658555

LH #0312 2163549

ZHY N1NSH

P 84B531Z AUG 78

UNINTEL SECTION EIGHT FOLLOWING INFORMATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED

7. RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO): A.

0100-051, 17 UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED FROM WEST OF

ALT

82,000-88,200 FT. B. 0756-1450, 23 UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED OVER

ALT 66,000-71,500 FT. C. 0743-1523, FOUR UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED

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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.