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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.
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NOFORN WNINTEL SUMMARY: (S/NE/WN) REPORT PROVIDES INFORMATION CONCERNING UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA WHICH THE HAS EITHER PERSONALLY OBSERVED OR HAS HEARD ABOUT FROM FRIENDS/ACQUAINTANCES. THE OBSERVATIONS (EXACT DATES NOT RECALLED) CONSISTED OF DOMES OF LIGHT, POINTS OF LIGHT, AND ELLIPSE OR CYLINDRICALLY SHAPED OBJECTS. TEXT: (U) 1. (S/NF/WN) DOMES OF LIGHT. ON ONE OCCASION A SILVER-COLORED LIGHT WAS OBSERVED IN THE AZERBAJDZHAN REGION OF THE USSR. A BRIGHT CENTER POINT EMITTED LIGHT IN ALL DIRECTIONS WHICH SLOWLY INCREASED THE SIZE OF A DOME WHICH WAS LESS BRIGHT. THE DOME CONTINUED TO GROW EVEN AFTER THE LIGHT IN THE CENTER HAD BEEN EXTINGUISHED. THE CENTER LIGHT CONTINUED FOR ABOUT 15 MINUTES. THE EMITTED LIGHT (DOME) LASTED MUCH LONGER (OVER 30 MINUTES.) PHENOMENA NEAR KUYBYSHEV/ USSR. THE DETAILS WERE THE SAME AS MENTIONED ABOVE, EXCEPT THE CENTER LIGHT AND RESULTANT DOME WERE ORANGE IN COLOR. GREENISH IN COLOR AND THE LIGHT WAS SPREADING. THE POINTS WERE APPROXIMATELY 150 TO 200 KILOMETERS (KM) EACH POINT EMITTED A SEPARATE LIGHT. COULD SEE THE LIGHTS FROM THE AIR, BUT CLOUD COVER PREVENTED THEIR BEING SEEN FROM THE GROUND. 3. (U) OBJECTS. ## A. (B/NF/WN) PERSONAL SIGHTING. OBSERVED AN OBJECT FLYING IN VERTICAL CIRCLES. THE BRIGHT SILVER-COLORED OBJECT WAS APPROXIMATELY 50 TO 60 KM THE OBJECT MOVED AWAY FLEW AWAY FROM THE OBJECT, IT MOVED BACK IT WAS DIFFICULT TO DETERMINE THE DIMENSIONS AND EXACT SHAPE OF THE OBJECT. 8. (B/NF/WN) UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT. IN THE SPRING OF 1984, A FRIEND WAS SENT BY THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER TO INTERCEPT AN OBJECT WHICH HAD BEEN OBSERVED FLYING NEAR MIKHA TSKHAKAYA AIRFIELD AT A SUPERSONIC SPEED. HOWEVER, THE OBJECT DID NOT MAKE A SONIC BOOM AS IT FLEW NORTH TO SOUTH OVER THE BASE. THE PILOT, FLYING A MIG-23/FLOGGER IN FULL AFTERBURNER AT MACH 1.2 WAS UNABLE TO CLOSE ON THE OBJECT. BY THE TIME BOTH MIG-23 AND UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT APPROACHED THE COASTLINE OF THE BLACK SEA, THE FLOGGER WAS APPROACHING MACH 1.6. THE PILOT ACTIVATED HIS INFRARED SEARCH AND TRACK SYSTEM (IRSTS) APPROXIMATELY 12 KM FROM THE TARGET AND OBSERVED THE LARGEST BLOOM HE HAD EVER SEEN ON HIS INDICATOR. THE SECRET
FOIA release, from the dia collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 148 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.