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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. 2 …Official, ROK Intelligence Agency SPENCER G. STANLEY JR. Colonel, MI Commanding

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27 Mar 74 (morning)	Córdoba	Not available.	Construction workers.	N/A
28 Mar 74 (daytime)	Córdoba	Luminous.	School children.	Appeared over Córdoba Sierra and disappeared shortly thereafter very rapidly.
31 Mar 74 (early morning)	Vigo (4214N-00843W)	Red.	Group of nurses.	Moving up and down over the Vigo inlet, then UFO disappeared behind mountains of the Morrazo peninsula.
2 Apr 74 (night)	La Union (3737N-00052W)	Luminous, circular.	Ten persons on night shift at mining company.	Disappeared suddenly after having been seen several seconds.
4 Apr 74 (morning)	La Estrada (4241N-00829W)	Metallic, noiseless, size of a bus, had a reflector in turret. Gray or aluminum in color.	Two 12-year-old girls.	Stopped a few seconds about 10 or 12 meters from the ground and 100 meters from observers, then went out of sight.
11 Apr 74	San Pedro (4322N-00823W)	Oval, had no vapor trail.	Resident of San Pedro.	Was traveling at approximately 4,000 kilometers per hour, in sight for about 8 seconds.
14 Apr 74 (2 a.m.)	Herrera de Alcántara (3938N-00724W)	Khomboid, formed by luminous, hoary lights. In upper lefthand part there was a pink-yellowish semicircle which became a circle as UFO came near ground level. Student claims he heard a prolonged noise like that from an old alarm clock. Professor estimated size of smaller diagonal of khomboid to be about 20 meters.	Professor, his wife and a student.	Was observed at ground level from a distance of 300 meters for 5 or 6 minutes, then flew northeast.

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