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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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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT 1. COUNTRY. PAKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN/USSR 8. REPORT NUMBER: 6 873 0004 75 2. SUBJECT: Balls of Fire II 9. DATE OF REPORT: 8 Jan 75 3. MC.NUMBER: 10. NO. OF PAGES: 2 4. DATE OF INFORMATION: 18Dec74 11. REFERENCES: IR 6 873 0273 74 5. PLACE AND DATE OF ACQ: Islamabad, 7Jan74 12. ORIGINATOR: USDAO ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN 6. EVALUATION: SOURCE ___ INFORMATION ___ 13. PREPARED BY: WILLIAM S. BILLILLAND Colonel, General Staff Army Attache 7. SOURCE: Urdu Language Newspaper 14. APPROVING AUTHORITY: HOWARD G. CLAYVILLE Colonel, USAF Defense Attache 15. SUMMARY: This report contains a translation from the Urdu language newspaper Jang dated 1 Jan 75. It describes another account of the phenomenon in the sky 18 Dec 74 as reported in referenced IR. Translation: Peshawar Dec, 31(Jang Rep) "According to a statement by Mr. Mohammad Riaz, Executive Engineer Pakistan FWD, Warsak, who was in Patan area at about 7 P.M. on Dec 18, a circular light appeared above the V shaped mountain overlooking the approach to Patan. The circle around the light went on expanding. As the circle expanded the light emanating from it became less and less. At first he thought it was a reflection from the moon but the moon was in a different position. He said that the circular light went on expanding for about 15 to 25 minutes. Eight days after the appearance of this light, the area was shaken by the earthquake. At the time he saw the light, those present along with him were; Rasul Khan, Executive Engineer, Captain Tariq, a doctor, Mr. Farooq Khan, an officer of 16. DISTRIBUTION BY ORIGINATOR: 17. DOWNGRADING DATA: None 18. ATTACHMENT DATA: None
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.