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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 PAGE 2 10. (U) ORIGINATOR: USDAO LA PA7, DATT/AIRA 11. (11) REQUEST EVALUATION: NO' 12. (11) PREPARING OFFICER: HAROLD T HAMILTON. COL. USAF 13. (U) APPROVING AUTHORITY: HAROLD T HAMILTON, COL, USAF 14. (U) SOURCE: NEWS MEDIA 15. (U) SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: PROTECTIVE CAVEAT USED DUE TO SENSITIVITY OF INFG. DIREC NG 16. (U) THE LA PAZ DAILY NEWSPAPER "EL DIARIO" CF 799819 REPORTED THAT A SECOND UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT HAD BEEN FOUND NEAR SANTA CRUZ. DETAILS: ONE OF THE LEADING DAILY FIRST OBJECT REPORTED.) THE HEADLINE OF THIS STORY STATES QUOTE: NEW SPHERE FELL FROM SPACE IN SANTA CRUZ - UNQUOTE. AN UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION OF THE ARTICLE FOLLOWS. QUOTE: A SECOND FIRE PALL FELL FROM THE SKY EARLY IN THE MORNING OF THE SAME DAY THAT THE FIRST ONE WAS FOUND NEAR COTOCA. THIS SECOND ONE WAS FOUND 200 KILOMETERS NORTH OF THE CITY OF SANTA CRUZ ON THE FARM OF JUAN SAAVEDRA AROUND 12:30 AM ON FPIDAY LAST WEEK HE HEARD A LOUD WHISTLING SOUND AND SAW A FIRE BALL FOLLOWED BY. AN EXPLOSION, HE SAID THAT THE NEXT FVENING A SILENT AIRCRAFT THAT HAD THREE LIGHTS WAS FLYING OVER THE EXPLOSION AREA. AFTER DAWN ON FRIDAY MORNING THE CAMPESINO STARTED LOOKING AROUND THE AREA OF THE IMPACT AND FOUND A SPHERE. AS IT WAS NOT HEAVY, HE TOOK IT HOME WHERE HE KEPT IT UNTIL HIS FRIEND NATANIEL MENDEZ HURTADD LEARNED OF THE OTHER SPHERE IN COTOCA AND PASSED ON INFORMATION CONERNING THIS SECOND SPHERE. THE MYSTERY OF FINDING THESE TWO SPHERES, EXACTLY ALIKE, IS THAT ACCORDING TO THE WITNESSES THEY WERE FIRE RALLS. THAT IS TO SAY THAT THESE SPHERES BFCAME REAL RALLS OF FIRE WHEN THEY ENTERED THE ATMOSPHERE BECAUSE OF THE FRICTION AND AFTER AHIGH SPEED FALL THEY HIT THE GROUND. HOWEVER, IN THE AREA WHERE THEY'VE BEEN FOUND, THERE WERE NO SIGNS OF THE IMPACT AND LOOKS PAGE 2
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