Communications Intelligence (COMINT) reports Part E

National Security Agency · 25 pages · text by OCR

This National Security Agency release, Part E of a series of Communications Intelligence (COMINT) reports, is undated and heavily redacted. It contains classified message traffic marked Secret Spoke and Top Secret Umbra. The messages record radar tracking of unidentified flying objects, often several at a time, at altitudes from about 500 to 88,500 feet. Most entries describe the objects as probably balloons. Locations, sources and many dates have been removed.

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p. 20 …0833-1101, RADAR TRACKED CNE UFC MCVING CVER C. 1503-1510, RADAR TRACKED CNE LFC MCVING…
p. 23 UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT, 9736, RADAR TRACKED CNE UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT MOVING OVER FRCM 1 2 3 4…
p. 25 …1106, RADAR TRACKED CNE UFO MOVING OVER 32 MN EAST OF 890 #0305 NNNN

CATEGORY = 400

MESSAGE = 03668979

LH #0821 2430801

ZNY MMNSH

THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED

6. RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO): A. 29 AUG 2300-0330, TEN UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED SLOWLY FROM WEST OF TOWARD WEST AND PASSED AND ALT 66,000-85,300 FT. B. 0256-0505, 12 UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED SLOWLY FROM TOWARD SOUTH AND PASSED AND ALT 10,000-15,000 FT. C. 0600-0839, SEVEN UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED SLOWLY FROM WEST OF TOWARD WEST AND PASSED SOUTH OF AND D. 0653-0830, 13 UFD (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED OVER ALT 88,000 FT.

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