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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 INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT # NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION BEST COPY AVAILABLE This report contains unprocessed information. Plans and/or policies could not be evolved or modified solely on basis of this report. 1. COUNTRY: IRAN 2. REPORT NUMBER: 6846038078 3. TITLE. UFO Sighting Over IRAN 4. PROJECT NUMBER: 5. DATE OF INFORMATION. 780628 6. DATE OF REPORT: 780706 7. DATE & PLACE OF ACQUISITION: 780628 Tehran, Iran 8. REFERENCES: INITIATIVE 9. ASSESSMENT: SOURCE C. INFO 3 10. ORIGINATOR. USDAO (OPS) TEHRAN IRAN 12. PREPARING OFFICER: 13. APPROVING AUTHORITY. Kayhan International Newspaper 15. SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: YES NO 16. SUMMARY. This report forwards information which was obtained from the Iranian English language newspaper, the Kayhan International, dated 28 June 1978. Information provided concerns the sighting of a UFO by an Iranian youth from the Shiraz area and includes a photograph reported to have been taken by this youth. 18. DISTRIBUTION BY ORIGINATOR: DIA (original) USCINCEUR EUDAC COMIDEASTFOR CINCUSAFE DIA DB-3B2 19. DOWNGRADING AND DECLASSIFICATION DATA: 20. ENCLOSURES: NONE 21. This IR contains 2 pages.
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.