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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.
“The Advance”1 page
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1. COUNTRY: COMMUNIST CHINA 8. REPORT NUMBER: 2 727 1030 68 (0670) 2. SUBJECT: (U) Unidentified Flying Objects Over South China 9. DATE OF REPORT: 19 AUG 1968 3. ISC NUMBER: 595.000, 657.230, 673.000 10. NO. OF PAGES: 1 4. DATE OF INFORMATION: 17 Jul 68 11. REFERENCES: DIRM 4D1k, 4E3g, 4Flj 5. PLACE AND DATE OF ACC: TAIPEI, Taiwan, 26 Jul 68 12. ORIGINATOR: 500th MI Gp 6. EVALUATION: SOURCE F, B, F INFORMATION 6 13. PREPARED BY: (860/68) (PS 1/68) 7. SOURCE: 14. APPROVING AUTHORITY: 15. SUMMARY: COMPLETE TEXT (C-NFD) On 17 Jul 68, seven unidentified flying objects (UFOs) were sighted in the skies over areas of FUKIEN (2600N/11800E), KIANGSI (2800N/11600E), and KWANGTUNG (2300N/11300E) Provinces. Two Chinese Communist MIGs from the air base at HSIN-CH'ENG (STC 2450/1004) (coord unk) attempted to intercept them without success. (This report is marked NOFORN-DISSEM) (Evaluation Reports, DD Forms 1480, prepared on this IR will be classified at least CONFIDENTIAL.) Field Comment: (C-NFD) Comment of Preparing Officer: (C) See 500th MI Gp message DMIG-OT 1987, DTG 100050 Z Aug 68, and 1948, DTG 072200Z Aug 68 (NOTAL), for earlier information on UFO sightings.
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