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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 JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF MESSAGE CENTER PAGE 2 UNCLASSIFIED 9. ASSESSMENT1 B=2 19. ORIGINATOR: USDAO. OTTAWA, CANADA 11. REQUEST EVALUATION: NO 12. PREPARING OFFICER: JOSEPH L. DICK, CAPT, USN, NAVAL ATTACHE 13. APPROVING AUTHORITY: WILLIAM W. VON HAUSEN, COL. USAF. DEFENSE ATTACHE 14. SOURCE: "THE GLOBE AND MAIL," TORONTO NEWSPAPER 15. SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: NONE. DIRECT: NO 16. SUMMARY: THE FOLLOWING NEWSPAPER ARTICLE IS QUOTED IN FULL IN ORDER TO PROVIDE AS MUCH DETAIL AS POSSIBLE TO INVESTIGATORSAT THE NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY COLLECTING DATA ON THIS TYPE OF PHENOMENA! MST. JOHN'S-BELL ISLANDERS ARE STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT HIT THEIR COMMUNITY OFF THE EAST COAST OF NEWFOUNDLAND YESTERDAY, TEARING APART HOUSES, CUTTING OFF POWER, POPPING LIGHT SWITCHES AND LEAVING THREE MYSTERIOUS HOLES BURNED IN THE GROUND. IT WAS FIRST DESCRIBED AS AN UNIDENTIFIED ATMOSPHERIC EXPLOSION AND SOUNDED SIMILAR TO THE SONIC BOOMS THAT HAVE BEEN HEARD IN RECENT MONTHS ALONG THE COAST OF NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW ENGLAND. WAS IN THOSE INCIDENTS. THE SUPERSONIC CONCORDE AIRLINER WAS FIRST SUGGESTED AS AN EXPLANATION. THAT THEORY HAS BEEN QUICKLY DISMISSED. ONE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE NEWFOUNDLAND PHENOMENON AND THE NOVA SCOTIA BOOMS IS THAT YESTERDAY'S BLAST WAS CENTRED OVER A POPULATED AREA. LANCE COVE. A SMALL COMMUNITY ON BELL ISLAND IN CONCEPTION BAY, WAS THE CENTRE OF THE ENERGY BURST AND WITH THIS INCIDENT THE SOUND WAS THE LEAST SPEC TACULAR OF THE EFFECTS. A HOUSE WAS TORN UP AS IF IT HAD BEEN HIT BY LIGHTNING, BUT THERE WERE NO BURN MARKS ANYWHERE. A TELEVISION SET EXPLODED. OUTLETS EXPLODED IN THE WALL. PAGE 2 UNCLASSIFIED
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