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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.
“Rio de Janeiro”1 page
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## PAGE 3 AS THOUGH THE SPHERES LANDED SMOOTHLY. THE MATERIAL OF THE SPHERES IS KIND OF FRAGIL. BUT THEY ARE NOT DAMAGED (BY IMPACT) AND IN BOTH CASES THEY ONLY SHOW A HOLE (IN OUTER SKIN) WITH MELTED EDGES AND AN EXPLOSION (APPARANTLY) DESTROYED THE CONTENTS OF THE INTERIOR. GONZALO MENACHO SAID THAT WHERE HE FOUND THE SPHERE HE SAY SOME BURNED PLANTS BUT HE DID NOT SEF ANY SIGN OF THE IMPACT ON THE SCFT GROUND. THE SPHERE FOUND IN THE NORTH OF THE SANTA-CRUZ DEPARTMENT WEIGHS ABOUT SIX KILOGRAMS WITH A DIAMETER OF ABOUT 80 CENTIMETERS. THE OUTSIDE METAL IS SIMILAR TO COPPER, IS KIND OF DARK WITH LIGHT SPOTS, AND HAS APPARANTLY BEEN EXPOSED TO VEPY HIGH TEMPERATURES. THE SPHERE IS MADE BY TWO PIECES PUT TOGETHER WITHOUT ANY RIVETS. ON THE TOP OF THE SPHERE YOU CAN SEE A HOLE OF IRREGULAR SHAPE AND NEXT TO IT ANOTHER SMALL ROUND HOLE. IN BOTH, THE MATERIAL IS MELTED. AT THE OTHER END OF THE SPHERE THERE IS A ROUND ARFA THAT LOOKS LIKE A CORK IN A BOTTLE HELD IN PLACE BY THREE SEHI-MELTED SCREWS. THE SPHFRE WAS BROUGHT TO THE CITY OF SANTA CRUZ BY NEWSMEN FROM A LOCAL RADIO STATION WHO INFORMED THIS NEWSPAPER OF THE DETAILS. THE CAMPESINO WHO FOUND THIS SPHERE CLAIMS IT AS HIS PROPERTY. THE SPHERE WAS ON PUBLIC DISPLAY ALL AFTERNOON AT THE RADIO STATION. UNQUOTE. RO COMMENT: A PICTURE ACCOMPANYING THE ABOVE ARTICLE SHOWS THIS SECOND UNIDENTIFIED SPHERE TO BE PRACTICALLY IDENTICAL IN APPEARANCE TO THE FIRST ONE. COPY OF THIS ARTICLE AND PICTURE WERE FORWARDED TO DIA/DT-3 BY STATE DEPT POUCH ON 790820. ALSO INCLUDED IN THE POUCH WERF THE FOLLOWING RELATING TO THE FIRST SPHERE: (1) 35MM COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS; (2) AN UNDEVELOPED ROLL OF HOME MOVIE FILM; AND (3) A COPY OF THE NEWSPAPER STORY. REQUEST DIA ADVISE IF FURTHER REPORTING/ACTION IS DESIRED ON THIS INCIDENTS. ALSO, IF THE MOVIE FILM IS DEVELOPED, REQUEST ONE COPY BE FORWARDED TO USDAO LA PAZ FOR TRANSMITTAL TO ORIGINAL OWNER. #7131 ANNOTES PJ 117 PAGE 3 NNNN 2218467
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.