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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 ## UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 2 17337 12. PREPARING OFFI A.B. GRAZINI, ISC, USN, OP8 13. APPROVING AUTH: THOMAS E. SCHAEFER, COL. USAF, DATT 14. SOURCE: TEHRAN JOURNAL NEWSPAPER 15. SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS; DIRC. NO. 16. SUMMARY: THIS REPORT FORWARDS INFORMATION WHICH WAS OBTAINED FROM THE IRANIAN ENGLISH LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER, THE TEHRAN JOURNAL, DATED 18 JULY 1978 AND PROVIDES INFORMATION CONCERNING THE SIGHTING OF AN UFO OVER THE NORTHERN SECTOR OF TEHRAN. 17. THRU 21. OMITTED. 22. DETAILS: THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS QUOTED FROM THE 18 JULY 1978 EDITION OF THE TEHRAN JOURNAL NEWSBARA "UFO SPOTTED OVER NORTH OF TEHRAN" *TEHRAN-AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT WAS SEEN BY A NUMBER OF* PEOPLE IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE CITY ON SUNDAY NIGHT. OFFICIALS FROM THE CONTROL TOWER AT MEHRABAD AIRPORT AND A LUFTHANZA AIRCREW ALSO REPORTED UNUSUAL READINGS ON THEIR INSTRUMENTS. RESIDENTS IN NORTHERN TEHRAN WERE THE FIRST TO SPOT THE STRANGE GLOWING OBJECT FLOATING TOWARDS SAVEH. THEY HAD BEEN SLEEPING ON THE TERRACES OF THEIR HOUSES, AND IMMEDIATELY INFORMED THE CONTROL TOWER AT MEHRABAD AIRPORT AND THE NATIONAL RADIO NETWORK. THE CONTROL TOWER CONFIRMED THE EXISTANCE OF THE OBJECT BUT WOULD GIVE NO FURTHER DETAILS. SOON AFTERWARDS, THE LUPTHANZA PLANE SENT IN ITS REPORT. A SIMILAR FLYING OBJECT WAS SEEN LAST APRIL BY LOCAL AIRLINE PILOT, WHICH CLAIMED THAT HE HAD PHOTOGRAPHED THE OBJECT, BUT COULD NOT RELEASE THE PHOTOGRAPHS UNTIL THE SECURITY DIVISION OF THE CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITIES GAVE THEIR PERMISSION. HE CLAIMED THAT WHILE FLYING BETWEEN AHVAZ AND TEHRAN AT 24,000 FEET, HE AND HIS CO-PILOT HAD SIGHTED A GLITTERING OBJECT AND HAD MANAGED TO PHOTOGRAPH IT. A MEHRABAD RADAR CONTROL OFFICIAL SAID THAT ON THAT OCCASION THEY HAD DETECTED AN OBJECT SOME 20 TIMES THE SIZE OF A JUMBO JET ON THEIR SCREENS. CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION CHIEF HAJ MONIRI CALLED FOR AN INVESTIGATION BUT THE RESULTS OF THIS ENQUIRY HAVE NOT YET BEEN MADE PUBLIC. AN EYE WITNESS SAID YESTERDAY THAT HE WAS ALONE ON HIS BALCONY ON SUNDAY NIGHT WHEN SUDDENLY HE SAW THE OBJECT EMERGE IN THE SKY AND HOVER DIRECTLY ABOVE HIM. I WAS SO UPSET THAT I WANTED TO SCREAM, BUT COULD NOT DO SO, HE SAID HE ADDED THAT HE FELT BETTER ONCE HE REALIZED THAT HIS NEIGHBORS HAD ALSO SEEN IT. THIS CURRENT REPORT IS THE THIRD UFO SIGHTING IN IRAN IN LESS THAN A ORIGINATOR COMMENTS: PREVIOUS REPORTS ON UFO SIGHTINGS IN IRAN HAVE PAGE 2 88111010
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.