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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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PAGE 3 OF 4 PAGES THIS INCIDENT. AN UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION OF THE ARTICLE FOLLOWS: QUOTE - PART OF WHAT COULD BE A SATELLITE FELL NEAR COTOCA. A PHENOMENON THAT COULD FOCUS THE ATTENTION OF THE WORLD ON BOLIVIA OCCURRED IN OUR CAPITAL WHEN A/GPERE WAS DISCOVERED THAT FELL APPROXIMATELY SIX DAYS AGO ON A FARM LOCATED 15KM FROM COTOCA. ACCORDING TO INFORMATION RECEIVED BY THIS NEWSPAPER FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE AIR FORCE ACADEMY, COL ARIEL COCA THE SPHERE IS MADE OF SPECIAL LIGHT ALLOY BUT VERY RESISTANT, POSSIBLY A FUEL TANK OR A PART OF A SATELLITE! THE OBJECT DOES NOT HAVE ANY SIGNS OR MARKS THAT COULD IDENTIFY ITS ORIGIN NOR THE COUNTRY TO WHICH IT BELONGS. COL COCA SAID THAT HE WILL INFORM HIS SUPERIORS OF THIS PHENOMENON SO THAT A STUDY CAN BE MADE TO DETERMINE ITS ORIGIN AND TO BE ANALYZED IN CASE IT CONTAINS RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCE. THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE AREA WHERE THIS BALL OF FIRE ( AS THEY CALLED IT) FELL, DELAYED IN TELLING THE AUTHORITIES ABOUT THE EVENT BECAUSE THEY WERE AFRAID THAT NO ONE WOULD LISTEN. - UNQUOTE. C. AN ACCOMBINYING PICTURE IN THE NEWSPAPER SHOWS COL COCA, COMMANDER OF THE BOLIVIAN AIR FORCE ACADENY, EXAMINING A ROUND OBJECT WHICH REACHES ABOVE HIS KNEES AND APPEARS TO BE PERFECTLY ROUND EXCEPT FOR A HOLE (MISSING PORTION OF OUTER SKIN) WHICH IS ABOUT NINE INCHES IN DIAMETER.
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.