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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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“object followed”10 pages

  • 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
5. RADAR TRACKING OF

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO). A. 1633-1740, FIVE UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED FROM TOWARD WEST, PASSED AND FADED ALT 6,500-13,100 FT. B. B848-1609, 14 UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED FROM TOWARD NW AND PASSED

ALT 72,100- 82,000 FT.

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