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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 VZCZCMAY502ILN119 MULT UNCLASSIFIED ZYUW ## ACTION ## DISTR CJCS DJS J3(10) J5(02) J31NMCC SECDEF(07) SECDEF: ASD:ISA(10) DIA(15) NMIC CMC WASHINGTON DC CMC CSAF WASHINGTON DC CSA WASHINGTON DC C I A SECSTATE WASHINGTON DC NSA WASH DC FILE(1) (045) TRANSIT/051933Z/052030Z/000157TOR0951954 DE RUEHOTA #1692 0951948 ZNR UUUUU R 051933Z APR 78 FM USDAO/OTTAWA TO RUEKJCS/DIA WASHDC INFO RUENAAA/CNO WASHDC RUEDAJD/NISC WASHDC RUEBARA/COMNAVINTCOM WASHDC RULSSAA/DNR ARLINGTON VA RUEBJHA/NRL WASHDC UNCLAS SECTION 02 OF 02 USDAO/OTTAWA 01692 FOUR MILES FROM BELL ISLAND ACROSS OPEN WATER, SAID THERE WERE "STREAKS OF SUPER BRIGHT SILVERY WHITE LIGHT." THE AUTHORITIES ARE ATTEMPTING TO PLAY DOWN THE INCIDENT. THEIR OFFICIAL VERSION OF WHAT HAPPENED IS THAT LIGHTNING HIT A TRANSFORMER ON BELL ISLAND. BLEW UP AND THE ENERGY THEN FOLLOWED THE WIRES TO NEIGHBORING HOUSES. "BUT THE EXPLOSION WAS HEARD FROM WESTERN BAY, ON THE NORTH SHORE OF CONCEPTION BAY, SOUTH AS FAR AS CAPE BROYALE, A DISTANCE OF MORE THAN 100 KILOMETRES." COMMENT: THIS IS THE SECOND EVENT OF BOOMS OFF THE EAST
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