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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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ANOTHER ASHBURTON FARMER (AGAIN NAMED LOVETT, APPARENTLY BROTHERS) WHILE CUTTING A FIELD OF ALFALFA. THE LOCATION OF THE SECOND FRAGMENT WAS APPROXIMATELY 240 METERS FROM THE FIRST AND IN AN ADJOINING FIELD. IT WAS NOT DISCOVERED UNTIL IT HAD BEEN STRUCK BY THE MOWING MACHINE AND IS, THEREFORE, REPORTEDLY DAMAGED BY THE MACHINERY. THE SECOND OBJECT HAS BEEN TURNED OVER TO THE NZ POLICE BUT HAS NOT YET REACHED D8IR IN WELLINGTON. (1) TIME OF IMPACT: UNKNOWN. THE FARMER, JOHN LOVETT, CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN IN THE PADDOCK ON OCTOBER 22 AND IS CERTAIN THE FRAGMENT, WHICH WAS PROMINENTLY LOCATED, WAS NOT IN THE PADDOCK AT THE TIME. IF THE MILKMAN'S SIGHTING CAN BE CONFIRMED, THE APPROXIMATE TIME OF IMPACT WOULD BE 1400 GMT, OCT 23. COORDINATES OF IMPACT AREA ARE 171-44E AND 44-848. 2. SEE "SIGHTINGS" ABOVE. 3. SEE "SIGHTINGS" ABOVE. 4. CHARACTERISTICS OF IMPACT AREA: UNKNOWN. (NZ POLICE HAVE BEEN ASKED TO INTERVIEW THE DISCOVERING FARMERS AND PERFORM A MORE THOROUGH INSPECTION OF THE IMPACT AREA). 5. DAMAGE: NONE IDENTIFYING MARKS: NONE APPARENT ON FIRST SPHERE. SECOND SPHERE HAS NOT BEEN EXAMINED FOR IDENTIFYING MARKS. (D) PHYSICAL NATURE AND CONDITION: 1. SIZE: SPHERE WITH WELDED EQUATOR; 180 MM. DIAMETER AT THE EQUATOR AND 165 MM. DIAMETER AT THE POLS; THICKNESS APPROXIMATELY 3MM. 2. WEIGHT: 882 GRAMS (D8IR ESTIMATES APPROXIMATELY 18 PER CENT ORIGINAL WEIGHT LOSS THROUGH DEFORMATION CAUSE BY BT #6108 ANNOTES WM 117 PAGE 3 NNNN 080221Z
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.