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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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B. DEFENSE SECRETARY CHITTRA BAHADUR K.C. ASKED DATT LAST NIGHT IF ORIGIN OF OBJECT HAD BEEN DETERMINED AND IF HE INTENDED TO SEND EXPERTS. ANSWER TO BOTH QUESTIONS WAS THAT DATT DID NOT YET KNOW. FUTURE ACCESS TO FOURTH OBJECT SHOULD BE NO PROBLEM BUT UNKNOWN AS TO FIRST THREE. PART II. 1. OFFICER TO POKHARA 15-25 JUNE TO INVESTIGATE FALL OF OBJECTS. ALL FOUR OBJECTS FELL NIGHT 25-26 MARCH AT THREE LOCATIONS E8358-N2816, E8402-N2815, AND E8334-N2751 FROM BEARING OF 020 RPT 020 DEGREES, FELL NIGHT 25-26 MARCH. LARGE TRIANGULAR PIECE FROM DTOR NOZZLE, CIRCULAR METAL DISK IS ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR, UVAL PIECE (THIRD OBJECT) IS BASE OF UHF RPT UHF AERIAL, CONFIDENT LARGE CONE (FOURTH OBJECT) MUST BE MOTOR NOZZLE. METAL ANALYSIS CONTINUING. 3. BRITISH MILATT PASSING LONDON INFO GP RNA EXCEPT FOR FACT THAT COSMOS 208 IS PHOTO RECON SINCE RUSSIANS HAVE STATED 208 IS SCIENTIFIC SATELLITE. PART III. 1. IN VIEW OF ALL OF THE ABOVE, DATT NOW FEELS THAT TECHNICAL TEAM SHOULD NOT RPT NOT BE SENT UNLESS VISUAL EXAMINATION OF FOURTH OBJECT IS FELT ESSENTIAL. 2. IF TEAM IS NOT RPT NOT SENT, REQUEST GUIDANCE AS TO WHAT DATT CAN TELL GON DEFENSE SECRETARY AS TO WHAT OUR DETERMINATION OF OBJECTS IS IN ORDER TO CLOSE CASE. 3. RECOMMEND PRINTS REQUESTED BY PARA 2, PART II, OF REF MSG RETAIN UNCLASSIFIED STATUS. FILM IN REGISTERED PACKAGE 221-68 DEPARTED KATHMANDU 22 JULY IN EMBASSY POUCH NUMBER 09 RPT 09.
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.