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This secret Air Force OSI report was prepared by OSI District 51 at Nakhon Phanom RTAFB, Thailand, and dated 6 September 1969. The archive release is attributed to the CIA. It covers a pilot's sighting on 24 August 1969 of what looked like a helicopter with folded rotor blades, plus a bright light, near the base. Royal Thai Army searches found nothing. The report concludes that the object was probably a village religious procession carrying ceremonial drums on poles and a powerful lantern. It also notes that earlier UFO reports at the base had possible explanations.
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WILL THE international relations involving
would be the natural defense of the
world States within the meaning of the
exercise limits, Title 18, U.S.C., Sec.
104 and 104. The transmission of the
permission of its contents in any manner in
an authorized person is prohibited by law.
SECRET
"NO FOREIGN DISSEM"
This report contains an important and important item. It is an important and important should not be considered as modified solely on the basis of this report.
COUNTRY Thallinii
8. REPORT NUMBER: 1 656 0111 69
2. SUDICT- UNKNOWN ENTITY 9. DATE OF REPORT: 6 September 1969
Unidentified Object Thought to be Holicoptor
Conserved Near Nakhon Phanom RTAFB (U) 10. NO. OF PAGES: 4
3. ISC NUMBER:
11. REFERENCES: DIRM 1S1
4. DATE OF INFORMATION: 24 August 1969
S. PLACE AND DATE OF ACC: Nakhon Phanom RTAFB, Thailand, 24 August 1969
12. ORIGINATOR: OSI District 51, Bangkok, Thailand
56-713/03/5
12 PREPARED BY: SA ROBERT D. KAEHLER, OSI Det 51 Nakhon Phanom RTAFB, Thailand
GEORGE W. BLANK, Lt Col, USAF Commander
(6) Early on the morning of 24 August 1969, the pilot of a base aircraft observed what he thought to be a helicopter, with folded rotor blades, on the ground approximately five miles north-northwest of Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base. He also reported seeing a large, omni-directional light. A Royal Thai Army sweep of the area, met with negative results. Subsequent checks, however, disclosed that a religious procession passed through the general area during the same time period and that the pilgrims carried with them two large ceremonial drums suspended between two long poles. One of the participants also carried a powerful electric lantern which, when an aircraft was noted circling overhead, he pointed skyward.
1. (C) Information contained in paragraph 2 below was provided by the Director of Intelligence, 56th Special Operations Wing, Nakhon Phnom Royal Thai Air Force Base (RTAFB), Thailand. The source of the information in paragraph 3 (5106-ASP-6J) is a resident of Ban Ram Rat, Nakhon Phnom Province who has contributed in the past, but whose reliability is still unknown. The contributor of the information in paragraph 3, and source of the information in paragraph 4, (5106-ASP-6), is a member of an official Thai agency who has contributed in the past, but whose reliability has not yet been fully established.
IG DISTRIBUTION BY ORIGINATOR:
Dir OSI USAF
Dop Dir OSI (PACAF)(CINC-
PAC-J21-2)
Dop Ch, JUSMAGTHAI (DCHI)
J-2 USMAGTHAI (G-2,
USARPAC-2)
13th AF (D/I-1, IGSP-1)
USARSUPTHAI
17th MI Det
Hqs, 621st TacConSq
Ch, AFAG
DODSRT JUSMAGTHAI
Distribution "A"
File(File-1, A&D-1, SCO-1)
DD FORM 1396
GROUP-3 Downgraded at 12 year interval; Not automatically declassified.
SECRET "NO FOREIGN DISSEM"
DIA REVIEW COMPLETED
Sketch of Sighting Area (C),
1 cy, 1 pg
$ \textcircled{1} $ IA
APPLICATION FOR Not linked to a story yet.
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.