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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. NATIONALIST CHINA 8. REPORT NUMBER: 2 727 1227 68 (0670) 2. SUBJECT: (U) Investigation on UFO Sightings Over Off-Shore Islands and TAIWAN Strait 9. DATE OF REPORT: 14 OCT 1960 3. ISC NUMBER: 164.000, 662.000, 662.100 10. NO. OF PAGES: 2 4. DATE OF INFORMATION: Jul - Aug 68 11. REFERENCES: DIRM 1P2, 4E5c, 6B7d 5. PLACE AND DATE OF ACQ: TAIPEI, Taiwan, 23 Sep 68 12. ORIGINATOR: 500th MI Gp 6. EVALUATION: SOURCE E, B INFORMATION 6 13. PREPARED BY: (102768)/(L-6204) 7. SOURCE: 14. APPROVING AUTHORITY: 15. SUMMARY: A technical investigation team composed of three officers investigated reports of numerous unidentified flying objects (UFOs) sighted over TAIWAN Strait and the Offshore Islands since 17 Jul 68 and concluded they were man-made satellites, "flying saucers," electronic jamming devices, or psychological warfare balloons. The team was assisted in its investigation by stationed on KINMEN (Quemoy) Island (2427N/11823E). (Evaluation Reports, DD Forms 1480, prepared on this IR will be classified at least CONFIDENTIAL.) 16. DISTRIBUTION BY ORIGINATOR: DIA 1 ACSI, DA 1 CINCPAC 1 USARPAC 6 PACAF 2 PACFLT 1 COMUSTDC 1 USDALO, Hong Kong 1 DOD/PRO 1 7th PsyOps Gp 1 6499th SAG 2 SRD 1 JSPC 1 COMNAVFORJ 1 17. DOWNGRADING DATA: EXCLUDED FROM AUTOMATIC DOWNGRADING AND DECLASSIFICATION Item #16 continued: 500th MI GP 5 CONFIDENTIAL
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