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Sighting Of Unidentified Flying Objects

Defense Intelligence Agency · 148 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This Defense Intelligence Agency compilation brings together several Department of Defense intelligence information reports on UFO sightings from 1968 to 1976. It includes 1968 reports of UFOs over South China and the Taiwan Strait, a 1970 South Korean report on possible North Korean balloons, and a table of Spanish sightings from 1973 to 1974 taken from the local press. It also contains a Pakistani report of a light seen before an earthquake and the USDAO Tehran account of F-4 jets losing instruments while chasing a UFO in September 1976.

  • p. 56 …DAO NEPAL SECRET MSG 0215 JUL 68 (NOTAL). 8. FTD WPAFB OHIOSDSG DTG 242020Z JUL 68…
  • p. 104 …Kathmandu, NEPAL 20 May 1968 6. EVALUATION: SOURCE: 7. SOURCE: 15. SUMMARY: Report forwards one photograph…
  • p. 105 …PAGES ORIGINATOR PHOTOGRAPH TITLING LOG NEPAL /1-G/Kathmandu, NEPAL/Triangular Shaped Object/NA/Unknown NEPAL…
  • p. 106 …Moon Dust - Nepal (U) 1. By message 0177, 23 May 68, subject as above requested evaluation…

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1. COUNTRY. NEPAL
2. SUBJECT: (U) Moon Dust
3. ISC NUMBER:
4. DATE OF INFORMATION: 20 May 1968
5. PLACE AND DATE OF ACC: Kathmandu, NEPAL
20 May 1968
6. EVALUATION: SOURCE:
7. SOURCE:
15. SUMMARY:
Report forwards one photograph each of two articles reported on by ref mag.

COMMENT: DIA copies are original, others reproduced in AmEmbassy Kathmandu.

REQUEST PHOTOS DIRECTLY FROM DIAAP-101.
ORDER BY 18 AND PHOTO LOG NUMBER
THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN ADJUDGED BY
CO.6
(OPI)
AS NOT FALLING WITHIN THE CATEGORY
OF SENSITIVE/EXTREMELY SENSITIVE
INFORMATION AND MAY BE ROUTINELY
PROCESSED OR DISTRIBUTED VITIMAL DIA.

(Signature)
16. DISTRIBUTION BY ORIGINATOR:
CINCMEAFSA - 1 cy w/encl
1127th USAF Fld Acty Op, Ft.
Belvoir, Va., ATTN: AFNIAA
1 cy w/encl
FID, Wright-Patterson AFB,
Ohio, ATTN: TDA - 1cy w/encl
COMAD, Ent AF Base, Colo,
ATTN: J-2 - 1 cy w/encl
Dept of State, Wash D.C.,
ATTN: INR - 1 cy w/encl
17. DOWNGRADING DATA:
18. ATTACHMENT DATA:
1 Ecol
2ea Photos, 1 cy, w/o
negs.

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FOIA release, from the dia 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. 148 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.