Documents / FOIA release
This Foreign Broadcast Information Service item from FBIS Key West, dated 2 September 1987 and distributed through JCS Washington to military, intelligence and NASA addressees, relays a CANA news report from Bridgetown, Barbados. Scores of Barbadians reported seeing four to 18 slow-moving balls of light with long illuminated tails crossing the sky north to south for about 10 minutes. A LIAT pilot reported that objects passed his aircraft at high speed. Meteorological officials could not explain the objects, and similar sightings were reported in Grenada, St Lucia and Martinique.
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COPY TO ELAAD, ESG, MOD (2) BODY SUBJ BARBADIANS REPORT SEVERAL UFO SIGHTINGS FL021725 BRIDGETOWN CANA IN ENGLISH 1427 GMT 2 SEP 87 ((TEXT)) BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS, SEPT 2, CANA -- SCORES OF BARBADIANS LAST NIGHT REPORTED SPOTTING SEVERAL UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS IN THE MOONLIT SKY AND PRESS REPORTS TODAY SAID THE GLOWING BALLS WERE ALSO SEEN ELSEWHERE IN THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN. EYE WITNESSES ON THE GROUND HERE SPOKE OF SEEING BETWEEN FOUR AND 18 SLOW-MOVING BALLS OF LIGHT WITH LONG ILLUMINATED TAILS, GLIDING HORIZONTALLY THROUGH THE SKY IN A NORTH-SOUTH DIRECTION OVER THIS 166-SQUARE-MILE ISLAND. THE SIGHTINGS LASTED ABOUT 10 MINUTES, SOME SAY. METEOROLOGICAL OFFICIALS COULD NOT EXPLAIN THE OBJECTS, BUT THE PRESS QUOTED A PILOT OF THE REGIONAL AIRLINE LIAT AS SAYING THAT WHILE FLYING AT ABOUT 8000 FEET, A GROUP OF OBJECTS HAD PASSED HIS AIRCRAFT "AT A TERRIFIC SPEED" -- A LARGE ONE OUT FRONT, FOLLOWED BY ABOUT FIVE OR SIX OTHERS. THE MET OFFICE SAID SIMILAR SIGHTINGS HAD ALSO BEEN REPORTED IN GRENADA, ST LUCIA, AND MARTINIQUE. ADMIN （ENDALL）021427 BT 02/2008Z SEP #0356 NNNN
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.