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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. REPUBLIC OF CHAD
2. SUBJECT: (U) MOON DUST
3. ISC NUMBER:
4. DATE OF INFORMATION: Unknown
5. PLACE AND DATE OF ACCESS:
6. EVALUATION:
7. SOURCE:
18. SUMMARY:
This report forwards photographs of object believed to come under Project "MOON DUST". The object was seen falling in an area 30 kms N.E. of LAI (C924N-1618E) on 1 August 1970. It produced three loud explosions on landing and was said to have burned for five days. The sphere weighs 30 pounds and has a circumference of four feet.

A second object was found in the same general area. It, however, resembles an automobile shaft. Photographs of this object are forwarded (see Encl #1). It weighs approximately 20 pounds and the shaft is 3 ft. 2 inches long. A cylindrical weight four inches in diameter moves freely on the shaft. A bronze fitting on the shaft is well worn.

REQUEST PHOTOS DIRECTLY FROM DIAP-18X
ORDER BY MR. AND PHOTO LOG NUMBER
16. DISTRIBUTION BY ORIGINATOR:
CINCSTRIKE 1 cy w/o Encls
17. DOWNGRADING DATA:
18. ATTACHMENT DATA:
3 Encls
1. Five 3x4 photographs.
2. Three 35mm Negatives.
3. One roll of 35mm, 36 Exp roll, Ektachrome, exposed -- PROCESSED.

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