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Sighting Of Unidentified Flying Objects

Defense Intelligence Agency · 148 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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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and then exploded. ROK efforts to recover debris subsequent to the explosions have been unsuccessful.

3. The ROKAF Chief of Staff speculated that if current maneuvers of the UFOs prove to be successful, then NK may use the self-propelled balloons for dropping agents, propaganda, or even epidemic germs into the ROK. His briefing and speculation caused consternation among the ROKAF SU CO's because this was the first report they had had of such penetrations.

COMMENTS: The information in this report was furnished by a medium-level member of a ROK intelligence agency in the PUSAN, ROK area, and who has been reporting on an irregular basis for the last four years.

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