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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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PAGE 2 18. (U) ORIGINATOR: USDAO WELLINGTON, NZ 11. (U) REQUEST FOR EVALIING 14. (U) BOURCEI AMEMBA85Y SCIENTIFIC ATTACHE 18. (U) DIRCION OF SCIENTIFIC 16. SUMMARY: THE NEW ZEALAND DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH HAS ADVISED THE EMBASSY'S SCIENTIFIC ATTACHE OF THE INVESTIGATION OF POSSIBLE FOREIGN SPACE MATERIAL REENTRY. ALTHOUGH THIS STATION IS NOT CURRENTLY ON A MOON DUST ALERT, THIS REPORT IS BEING MADE IAW REF CIR TO INFORM ADDRESSES THAT POSSIBLE SPACE FRAGMENTS HAVE BEEN LOCATED IN NEW ZEALAND. THE EMBASSY IS REPORTING THE INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH STATE DEPARTMENT INSTRUCTIONS. 22. THE FOLLOWING IS KEYED TO PARA 12.A OF REF CIR. 12. 4. (1) SIGHTINGS (A) POSITION OF OBSERVER ASHBURTON, NEW ZEALAND (43=548, 171=48E) [B] TIME OF SIGHTING APPROXIMATELY 1400 GMT, 781823 (C) UNKNOWN 【D】UNKNOWN (E) UNKNOWN [F] UNKNOWN (8) UNKNOWN (H) UNKNOWN (I) UNKNOWN (J) OTHER DATA ASSOCIATED WITH THE SIGHTING THERE HAS BEEN ONLY ONE UNCONFIRMED OBSERVATION BY AN ASHBURTON MILKMAN WHO REPORTED A SIGHTING ABOUT 1488 GMT ON A NORTH TO SOUTH TRAJECTORY. (2) GROUNDED MATERIAL? (A) LOCATION (44=848 = 171=44E) [B] CIRCUMSTANCES OF RECOVERY! ON 24 OCT 78, A SPACE FRAGMENT, KNOWN LOCALLY AS A "SPACE BALL", WAS PICKED UP BY FARMER JOHN LOVETT IN HIS PADDOCK ABOUT 28 KM SOUTH OF ASHBURTON ON NEW ZEALAND'S SOUTH ISLAND. IT WAS TURNED OVER TO THE NEW ZEALAND POLICE WHO IN TURN DECIVERED IT TO THE NATIONAL RADIATION LABORATORY IN CHRISTCHURCH FOR A RADIOACTIVE CHECK (NEGATIVE FINDING). THE OBJECT HAS NOW BEEN DELIVERED TO THE NZ-DSIR FOR DETAILED EXAMINATION AND ANALYSIS. ON NOV 5 A SECOND "SPACE BALL" WAS FOUND BY PAGE 2
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.