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(Sanitized) SIGHTINGS OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS IN LADAKH, NEPAL, SIKKIM AND BHUTAN

Central Intelligence Agency · 2001-03-12 · 6 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This sanitized Central Intelligence Agency information report, approved for release on 2 April 2001, sets out UFO sightings reported in February and March 1968 over Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan. For each sighting it gives the date, local time, area, direction of flight and a description of the object. The objects included bright lights, rocket-like trails and objects heard with thunder sounds. A metallic disc-shaped object was reportedly found in a crater near Pokhara, Nepal. Pages also quote Donald Keyhoe and Edward Condon.

  • p. 1 …sponsored civilian investigation of UFO's with headquarters at the University of Colorado 2001/04/02…

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Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100070007-8

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Date	Local Time	Area over which seen	Direction of flight	Particulars of the object
25 March 1968	2015	Kaski region in NW Nepal.	Appeared to be north to south. A blazing object, flashing intermittently, accompanied by big under sound disintegraced over Kaski region. A huge metallic disc-shaped object with a six-foot base and four feet in height was found in a crater at Baltichaur, five miles NE of Pokhara. Portions of a similar object were found at Talakot and Turepasal.

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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. 6 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.