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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. 141 …The facts cited in the article persuasively prove that cancellation of advanced basic research programmes delivers…

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GENTLEMEN COMPLETED HIS PURCHASE, WALKED A FEW PACES AWAY TO THE OTHER SIDE OF A PARTITION, OPENED THE BOTTLE AND DRANK THE CONTENTS.

B. (C/NF/WN) TROPICAL FRUITS WERE EVIDENTLY IN SHORT SUPPLY.

ONE WAS OFFERED A SOUVENIR OF A MOST INTIMATE NATURE BY A YOUNG LADY IN EXCHANGE FOR TWO ORANGES WHICH HE HAD BROUGHT OTHER VLADIVOSTOK CITIZENS HAD EVIDENTLY NEVER SEEN AN ORANGE AND ASKED INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO PEEL AND EAT ONE. A SOVIET ADMIRAL WAS NOTED STARING AT A PINEAPPLE DURING A RECEPTION. AT A POINT THE SOVIET ADMIRAL EVIDENTLY FELT WAS APPROPRIATE, HE WHISKED THE PINEAPPLE INTO HIS WIFE'S PURSE AND BOTH STROLLED OUT AT POSSIBLY THE SAME RECEPTION, AN SNI GENERAL WHO HAD IMBIBED HEAVILY PASSED THROUGH SPREADING GOODWILL AND COMMENTED THAT RATHER THAN FIGHTING EACH OTHER SHOULD GET TOGETHER TO FIGHT UFO'S.

C. (C/NF/WN) HOTEL SPACE WAS REPORTEDLY AT A PREMIUM. TWO YOUNG SOVIET LADIES WHO HAD BEFRIENDED CLAIMED SEEKING HOTEL ACCOMMODATION WOULD BE FRUITLESS. AS THE TWO COUPLES WERE NEAR THE WATERFRONT, ONE OF THE YOUNG LADIES ENTERED INTO A DISCUSSION WITH THE CAPTAIN OF A FISHING BOAT AND SUBSEQUENTLY INFORMED

THE CAPTAIN WOULD ALLOW THE USE OF HIS BOAT FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.

AND WERE

SUBSEQUENTLY UNABLE TO FIND SUITABLE LODGINGS.

5. (C/NF/WH) UNUSUAL DISCIPLINARY MEASURE. OVERHEARD TWO SOVIET MICHMANI DISCUSSING A SPECIFIC SAILOR WHO WAS A DISCIPLINE PROBLEM. FROM IDIOMS USED AND TONE OF THE CONVERSATION, THE MICHMANI INFERRED THAT THE TROUBLESOME SAILOR WOULD BE SODOMIZED AS A PUNISHMENT. THE SOVIET TERM USED WAS TO CLEAN HIS WHISTLE. THE ADMINISTRATION OF SAID PUNISHMENT APPEARED TO BE A COLLATERAL DUTY OF ONE PARTICULAR MICHMAN. THE TONE OF THE DISCUSSION SUGGESTED THAT, AT LEAST TO THE MICHMANI INVOLVED, THIS TYPE OF PUNISHMENT WAS AN ACCEPTED DISCIPLINE TOOL.

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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.