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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.
“Scientific American”1 page
NOFORN WNINTEL PAGE:0023 PILOT IMMEDIATELY REPORTED THIS INFORMATION TO THE CONTROLLER. BY THE TIME THE REACHED A SPEED OF NEARLY MACH 2, THE PILOT HAD TO BREAK OFF THE INTERCEPT DUE TO LOW FUEL. THE PILOT NEVER ACQUIRED A VISUAL IDENTIFICATION OF THE OBJECT. THE MIG-23'S ALTITUDE DURING THE CHASE WAS 5.000 M. C. ELLIPSE SHAPED OBJECT. DURING NIGHT FLIGHTS IN THE AZERBAJDZHAN AREA, SEVERAL AIRCREWS REPORTED AN ELLIPSE SHAPED OBJECT FLYING MORE THAN 20 KM FROM THEM WHICH EMITTED A LIGHT IN ONE DIRECTION. THE AIRCREW WERE UNABLE TO ACQUIRE A RADAR CONTACT ON THE OBJECT. ALL OF THE PILOTS WHICH OBSERVED THE UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT WERE INSTRUCTED TO LAND IMMEDIATELY. THE CREWS WERE ORDERED TO NEVER DISCUSS THE OBJECT THEY HAD OBSERVED. COMMENTS: (S/NF/WN) //IPSP: (U) PT 1820.//. //COMSOBJ: (U) 324//. ADMIN PROJ: (U) 140110. INSTR: (U) PREP: (U) ACQ: (U) WASH DC (891022). WARNING: (U) REPORT CLASSIFIED SECRET--WARNING NOTICE-INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED- NOT RELEASEABLE TO FOREIGN NATIONALS. #0224 NNNN
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.