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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 INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT 1. COUNTRY: URUGUAY 8. REPORT NUMBER: IR 1 900 0066 65 2. SUBJECT: (U) A Flying Saucer reportedly seen near COLONIA 9. DATE OF REPORT: 28 Jul 65 3. ISC NUMBER: 10. NO. OF PAGES: 1 4. DATE OF INFORMATION: 8 Jul 65 11. REFERENCES: 5. PLACE AND DATE OF ACQ: Montevideo 12. ORIGINATOR: 6. EVALUATION: SOURCE INFORMATION 13. PREPARED BY: 7. SOURCE: Press 14. APPROVING AUTHOR 15. SUMMARY: At 23:40 hours, 8 July 65, a "flying saucer" was seen by an estimated 150 people in Colonia. The object was reported to be at 20 to 25 degrees from the horizon and about 3 miles out from the shore. It visibly rotated, changing colors rapidly from white to yellow to orange to green to violet. It remained in sight about 15 minutes, hovering in one place, and then took off to the Southeast at a very rapid velocity. COMMENT: This is only one report of many from this area, of sightings of so-called "flying saucers." 16. DISTRIBUTION BY ORIGINATOR: US AFSOUTHCOM USSOCOM 17. DOWNGRADING DATA: 18. ATTACHMENT DATA:
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