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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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10. (U) ORIGINATOR: USDAO LA PAZ, DATT/AIRA 11. (U) REQUEST EVALUATION: NO 12. (U) PREPARING OFFICER: HAROLD T. HAMILTON, COL, USAF 13. (U) APPROVING AUTHORITY: HAROLD T. HAMILTON, COL, USAF (U) SOURCE: A. NEWS MEDIA, B. OTS 15. (U) SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: PROTECTIVE CAVEAT USED DUE TO SENSITIVITY OF INFO. DIRC: NO 16. SUMMARY: A REPORT HAS BEEN RECEIVED WITHIN THE EMBASSY AND REPORTED IN THE SANTA CRUZ NEWSPAPER OF AN UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT HAVING BEEN FOUND ON A FARM NEAR SANTA CRUZ. ITEM 22. A. ON LATE AFTERNOON OF 790816 THE EMBASSY HERE RECEIVED INFORMATION THAT A STRANGE OBJECT HAD BEEN FOUND ON A FARM NEAR SANTA CRUZ, BOLIVIA. SOURCE STATED THAT THE OBJECT WAS ABOUT 70 CENTIMETERS IN DIAMETER AND TWO METERS IN CIRCUMFERENCE WITH A HOLE IN ONE SIDE AND A METAL SKIN COVERING OF APPROX ONE-HALF INCH THICKNESS. LATER THE OBJECT WAS DESCRIBED AS "ABOUT THREE TIMES THE SIZE OF A BASKETBALL". SOURCE SEATED THAT HE HAD FILM OF THIS OBJECT WHICH HE GAVE DO AN EMBASSY OFFICIAL ON 790817. B. ON THE MORNING OF 790817, THE SANTA CRUZ NEWSPAPER "EL DEBER" PUBLISHED A FRONT PAGE ARTICLE ON
FOIA release, from the dia collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 148 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.