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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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THE ZYLN RUENBRAE781 3472007 P 2720062 MAY BE FR: USDAC BRASILIA BP. TG B14 WAS+DC1/DC-4A/AT-311 BQUSAF WASHDC//XDXX:CVAI// : BSCINESC QUARRY HEIGHTS//SCJ2-1/B305// BRASILIA BP. 05781 SERIAL: (U) TIR 6 809 0179 85 PASS: DIA PASS TO AIG 11881 COUNTRY: (U) BRAZIL (BR) SUBJECT: IIR 6 809 0179 86/BAF HAS A CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE FIRST KIND (U) WARNING: (U) THIS IS AN INFO REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTEL BO1: (U) 860521 REQS: (U) INITIATIVE SOURCE: (U) VARIOUS BAF SOURCES/OPEN SOURCES SUMMARY: (U) NUMEROUS UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS WERE SIGHTED IN THE SKIES OVER BRAZIL. BUT BAF FIGHTERS WERE UNABLE TO INTERCEPT THEM. TEXT: 1. ACCORDING TO SOURCES, AT LEAST 20 UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS WERE OBSERVED BY SEVERAL AIRCREWS AND ON RADAR THE NIGHT OF 19 MAY 86. THE OBJECTS WERE FIRST SEEN BY THE PILOT OF A XINGU AIRCRAFT, TRANSPORTING OZIRES SILVA, FORMER PRESIDENT OF EMBRAER, BETWEEN SAO PAULO AND RIO DE JANEIRO. FIGHTERS WERE LAUNCHED FROM SANTA CRUZ AB AT APPROXIMATELY 2100 NOURS. ALTHOUGH ALL THREE MADE RADAR CONTACT, ONLY ONE OF THE THREE PILOTS MANAGED TO SEE WHAT HE DESCRIBED AS RED, WHITE AND GREEN LIGHTS. SHORTLY AFTERWARD, RADAR CONTACT WAS MADE WITH SIMILAR OBJECTS NEAR BRASILIA AND THREE MIRAGES WERE LAUNCHED FROM ANAPOLIS AB ALL MADE RADAR AND VISUAL CONTACT AT 20,000 FEET. THEY REPORTED THAT THEY WERE ESCORTED BY THIRTEEN OF THESE DISKS WITH RED, GREEN, AND WHITE LIGHTS AT A DISTANCE OF ONE TO THREE MILES. THE OBJECTS THEN RAPIDLY DISAPPEARED FROM BOTH GROUND AND AIRBORNE RADARS. 2. THE AIR MINISTER IS QUOTED BY THE PRESS AS SAYING THERE WERE THREE GROUPS OF TARGETS ON THE GROUND RADAR AND THAT THE SCOPES OF THE AIRBORNE RADARS WERE SATURATED. COMMENT: WHILE NO DOES NOT BELIEVE IN UFO'S OR ALL THE NOOPLA THAT SURROUNDS PREVIOUS REPORTING, THERE IS TOO MUCH HERE TO BE IGNORED. THREE VISUAL SIGHTINGS AND POSITIVE RADAR CONTACT ACTION DC-4A(1) INFO CJCS(4) MIDS(1) JS(2) SECDEF(9) USDP(11) ASD:PALE(1) DI-1(1) WHIC(1) RTS-2B(1) JST-4B(1) DIC-3A(1) AT-5(1) DIO(1) DE-3(1) D6-3C(2) DB-3C2(1) DI-4B2(1) DI-5D2(1) DT-1(1) DIA(1) DT-5(1) DC-4AS(1) +NPIC WASHINGTON DC//IEG// +SAFE FROM THEE DIFFERENT TYPES OF RADAR SYSTEMS, LEADS ONE TO BELIEVE THAT SOMETHING ARRIVED OVER BRAZIL THE NIGHT OF 19 MAY. AIG 11881 //IPSP: PG1300// //COXS06J: 11// PRGJ: (U) NOMI INSTR: (U) US WC
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